OK guys, I hope this is one of the last emails about my renovation that I ask for help with. Everyone has been helpful, and this forum is great for finding answers to these problems.
I know have my kitchen cabinets installed, sink in the countertop, faucet screwed down, and the hoses hanging just waiting to be connected. When I was installing the cabinet, I desoldered all of the plumbing pipes so that I could slide the new cabinet over the capped off pipes and not cut holes all over the place.
I now have a cabinet with (2) 1/2" supply pipes coming out of the cabinet floor directly under the sink and (1) 1 1/2" copper drain to the back right corner of the cabinet.
This 1 1/2" copper supply pipe appears to have been fed directly up a wall from the basement and comes through the floor of the kitchen under the cabinet. I went into the basement and found the other end of the pipe and pushed it up and it appears to move freely - so I don't think it's connected to anything and it appears to have been a straight shot.
The way it was all setup before, the drain came off the sink, into a trap, to a T. The T turned to the right to drain the water. To the left was a 3 foot +/- section of pipe that went to a verticle pipe on the left of the cabinet for a vent pipe.
Reconnecting the way things were should be easy - but we decided that we were going to make a spot for a stackable washer/dryer on the left of the sink cabinet. I built a wall around the vent pipe and butted the sink cabinet directly up to it. In this wall I ran a dryer vent, electrical outlets, and I am going to put a washer box (hot/cold/drain) in the wall.
My question is - how do I tie the drain from the washer into the sink pipe?
It looks like the stand pipe for the washer should be 2" - and I can conceivably replace the copper pipe to the basement with 2" PVC if needed (although I'd like to avoid that if possible). I was going to put a standpipe to a trap inside the wall, and then tie into a wye or something between the vertical pipe and the sink drain.
The issue I picture with this, though, is that I would create a flow of water past the sink drain coming off the sink trap, which I am concerned might suck the water out of the trap. Part of me thinks this is an unnecessary concern though, because drains that share a pipe would always have a setup like this - you have to put 1 drain before the other in some fashion.
Also, I'm thinking 2" pipe should be used - but I'm not sure if I can use 2" under the sink and for the washer and then just reduce it to the 1 1/2" copper pipe coming out of the floor - my thinking being that 1 1/2" copper may be similar in I.D. to the 2" PVC..but I'm not sure.
I'm going to have a plumber come and finish everything off - but if I can setup as much as possible myself so my grandmother can save some $$ that would be nice...
Thanks again for the advice guys...
I know have my kitchen cabinets installed, sink in the countertop, faucet screwed down, and the hoses hanging just waiting to be connected. When I was installing the cabinet, I desoldered all of the plumbing pipes so that I could slide the new cabinet over the capped off pipes and not cut holes all over the place.
I now have a cabinet with (2) 1/2" supply pipes coming out of the cabinet floor directly under the sink and (1) 1 1/2" copper drain to the back right corner of the cabinet.
This 1 1/2" copper supply pipe appears to have been fed directly up a wall from the basement and comes through the floor of the kitchen under the cabinet. I went into the basement and found the other end of the pipe and pushed it up and it appears to move freely - so I don't think it's connected to anything and it appears to have been a straight shot.
The way it was all setup before, the drain came off the sink, into a trap, to a T. The T turned to the right to drain the water. To the left was a 3 foot +/- section of pipe that went to a verticle pipe on the left of the cabinet for a vent pipe.
Reconnecting the way things were should be easy - but we decided that we were going to make a spot for a stackable washer/dryer on the left of the sink cabinet. I built a wall around the vent pipe and butted the sink cabinet directly up to it. In this wall I ran a dryer vent, electrical outlets, and I am going to put a washer box (hot/cold/drain) in the wall.
My question is - how do I tie the drain from the washer into the sink pipe?
It looks like the stand pipe for the washer should be 2" - and I can conceivably replace the copper pipe to the basement with 2" PVC if needed (although I'd like to avoid that if possible). I was going to put a standpipe to a trap inside the wall, and then tie into a wye or something between the vertical pipe and the sink drain.
The issue I picture with this, though, is that I would create a flow of water past the sink drain coming off the sink trap, which I am concerned might suck the water out of the trap. Part of me thinks this is an unnecessary concern though, because drains that share a pipe would always have a setup like this - you have to put 1 drain before the other in some fashion.
Also, I'm thinking 2" pipe should be used - but I'm not sure if I can use 2" under the sink and for the washer and then just reduce it to the 1 1/2" copper pipe coming out of the floor - my thinking being that 1 1/2" copper may be similar in I.D. to the 2" PVC..but I'm not sure.
I'm going to have a plumber come and finish everything off - but if I can setup as much as possible myself so my grandmother can save some $$ that would be nice...
Thanks again for the advice guys...
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