When is a toilet vent not required?

**grahamW** · 02-27-2012, 06:13 PM

Can anyone advise when a toilet vent isn't required in Ontario? I have a small 2 piece bathroom on the mainfloor and the toilet enters a 3" stack directly without a vent. The sink connects to this same stack and has a 1.5" vent.

Thanks.

**dlarrivee** · 02-27-2012, 06:19 PM

It does require a vent.

The stack itself is likely 3" or 4", and I'm guessing nothing ties into it above your 2 piece bathroom?

There are certain distances that must be adhered to, but the stack itself is venting the w/c for you here I imagine.

**grahamW** · 02-27-2012, 06:39 PM

Thanks for the quick reply dlarrivee! Indeed, the 'stack' is 3" and only contains the toilet with the one sink connection. It directly enters the main sewage line beneath the slab. I have yet to find the sink vent but I suspect it is 1.5".

I was hoping for a 2" vent so I could tie in new basement drain and a laundry tub/drain. It looks like I'll be putting a 2" vent up to the attic after all.

**dlarrivee** · 02-27-2012, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by grahamW

Thanks for the quick reply dlarrivee! Indeed, the 'stack' is 3" and only contains the toilet with the one sink connection. It directly enters the main sewage line beneath the slab. I have yet to find the sink vent but I suspect it is 1.5".

I was hoping for a 2" vent so I could tie in new basement drain and a laundry tub/drain. It looks like I'll be putting a 2" vent up to the attic after all.

You're better off trying to go straight up with your 2" vent than trying to tie into an existing horizontal one anyhow... you need to bore fairly large holes for 2" lines.

**grahamW** · 02-28-2012, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by dlarrivee

You're better off trying to go straight up with your 2" vent than trying to tie into an existing horizontal one anyhow... you need to bore fairly large holes for 2" lines.

Thanks, the problem is that it isn't a straight, vertical run to my attic. Will need one major jog as the roof level is split. Oh, and I hate distrubing all that blown insulation up there.

**Plumber1979** · 07-15-2012, 04:33 PM

more than likely your sink goes directly into the 3 inch stack. and you dont have to run 2 inch for a vent

**mikeplummer** · 07-25-2012, 05:07 PM

you can run a 1-1/2" vent for what you want to add in the basement and tie it into your stack above flood level rim of the uppermost fixture (sink)

hj · 07-27-2012, 07:23 AM

YOU do not know venting, so why don't you get a plumber who DOES, and maybe he will install the vent the easy way. IT does NOT require a vent when your local code says it does not, but you have to contact your building department to find out.

**Plumber1979** · 09-28-2012, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by hj

YOU do not know venting, so why don't you get a plumber who DOES, and maybe he will install the vent the easy way. IT does NOT require a vent when your local code says it does not, but you have to contact your building department to find out.

thats why hes here, to ask for help. dont be a dick plumber. and IT ALWAYS rewuires a vent, where did you learn plumbing

**MikeON** · 04-17-2013, 05:25 PM

Toilet can run up to 3m (9.8 feet) horizontally and maximum in changing direction of 225 degree before it needs a vent .
2006 Ontario Code, part 7, sentence 7.5.6.3.(2)

**mikeplummer** · 04-24-2013, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by MikeON

Toilet can run up to 3m (9.8 feet) horizontally and maximum in changing direction of 225 degree before it needs a vent .
2006 Ontario Code, part 7, sentence 7.5.6.3.(2)

Just to add to this:

The distance between the toilet connection (flange) and vent pipe can also be 1m vertical and 3m horizontal. meaning you can drop 1m on the vertical plane from toilet flange and 3m horizontally before requiring a vent connection

**MikeON** · 04-25-2013, 07:23 AM

Can it add up ? If it runs horizontal only, the maximum distance from the center of 3" elbow (just below the flange) to a vent is 4m ?

Originally Posted by mikeplummer

Just to add to this:

The distance between the toilet connection (flange) and vent pipe can also be 1m vertical and 3m horizontal. meaning you can drop 1m on the vertical plane from toilet flange and 3m horizontally before requiring a vent connection

**mikeplummer** · 04-25-2013, 10:15 AM

nope...it will always run vertical.....think of your connection to flange = vertical. that is where you can go up to 1m....you can only go from that vertical to horizontal once...it cannot offset from horizontal to vertical again until after the vent connection

hj · 04-25-2013, 01:59 PM

quote; IT ALWAYS rewuires a vent, where did you learn plumbing

I learned plumbing under a GOOD code, but a lot of people are working under the IPC, which is an "anything goes" code and therefore I have heard that it does not always require a vent for a toilet. Their thinking, apparently being, that since a toilet is an "S" trap already, a vent would not help it flush any better.