hi,
my house is pretty strange. it is 2200 sq.ft. with 1 small bathroom. it has a partial basement, and the rest of the house is a slab. it used to be a small cottage that was added on to over the years.
This winter i would like to add a bathroom to this house, but i don't know where the drain lines are. The 1 bathroom and the kitchen in this house is built on the slab, and there are no drain lines in the basement that i can see. The place i want to install the bathroom is on the opposite end of the house.
here is how weird my house is, the sumppump in the basement discharges through a hose that is routed through the foundation wall, up through the slab under my sink, and into the same drain as my kitchen sink. weird huh? i found this out the first week we moved into this house, we ran the garbage disposer, which plugged up the drain. then we washed a load of laundry, which empties into the sumppump, the sumppump turned on, the force of the pump busted the pipe under the sink and flooded my kitchen. it was a mess.
so i need to know how to locate the main drain in my house. there is a small 1.5in pipe that looks like it could be a drain from my kitchen sink, but if you read my previous post about finding something weird in my basement, i think this may be some sort of vent pipe.
why would they build a bathroom on a slab and not over the basement? i was thinking the part of the house with the bathroom (on the slab) was an addition to the house, but now i am thinking that could have been the original cottage and then they built on the rest of the house, which would explain the partial basement and lack of plumbing in it, but the well pump is located in the basement.
i hope i havent confused anybody
thanks
josh
my house is pretty strange. it is 2200 sq.ft. with 1 small bathroom. it has a partial basement, and the rest of the house is a slab. it used to be a small cottage that was added on to over the years.
This winter i would like to add a bathroom to this house, but i don't know where the drain lines are. The 1 bathroom and the kitchen in this house is built on the slab, and there are no drain lines in the basement that i can see. The place i want to install the bathroom is on the opposite end of the house.
here is how weird my house is, the sumppump in the basement discharges through a hose that is routed through the foundation wall, up through the slab under my sink, and into the same drain as my kitchen sink. weird huh? i found this out the first week we moved into this house, we ran the garbage disposer, which plugged up the drain. then we washed a load of laundry, which empties into the sumppump, the sumppump turned on, the force of the pump busted the pipe under the sink and flooded my kitchen. it was a mess.
so i need to know how to locate the main drain in my house. there is a small 1.5in pipe that looks like it could be a drain from my kitchen sink, but if you read my previous post about finding something weird in my basement, i think this may be some sort of vent pipe.
why would they build a bathroom on a slab and not over the basement? i was thinking the part of the house with the bathroom (on the slab) was an addition to the house, but now i am thinking that could have been the original cottage and then they built on the rest of the house, which would explain the partial basement and lack of plumbing in it, but the well pump is located in the basement.
i hope i havent confused anybody
thanks
josh