thatgirl2478
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I bought a house in July - never noticed that the laundry sink drained into the floor drain.
Existing in the room was a plumbing configuration that looked kind of like an upside down T with the top of the T opening under the laundry sink & emptying in the floor (connected to the floor drain). The stem of the T is a vertical pipe which is open to the room, but has an s trap in it about half way up (the pipe is probably 4 ft in length).
I had a plumber come in and hook up the sink to the open end that was under the sink already. So the connections are : sink --- open pipe --- out to main.
Questions:
Is the open pipe acting as the vent on this drain line? If so a) it probably shouldn't be venting into the room (duh) and b) is the s trap in the pipe correct and c) could that trap be what's slowing down the draining of the sink?
Existing in the room was a plumbing configuration that looked kind of like an upside down T with the top of the T opening under the laundry sink & emptying in the floor (connected to the floor drain). The stem of the T is a vertical pipe which is open to the room, but has an s trap in it about half way up (the pipe is probably 4 ft in length).
I had a plumber come in and hook up the sink to the open end that was under the sink already. So the connections are : sink --- open pipe --- out to main.
Questions:
Is the open pipe acting as the vent on this drain line? If so a) it probably shouldn't be venting into the room (duh) and b) is the s trap in the pipe correct and c) could that trap be what's slowing down the draining of the sink?