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    We are having a bit of a time trying to figure out how to vent a toilet in between two joists.
    Would it be okay to loop back to a vent stack. Come off the top of the 3 inch toilet drain with a y and loop it back with a two inch vent to the main vent stack as in the picture, we taped it up so one could see the configurationloopjointenlarged.jpg.

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    Default Re: Toilet venting.

    That's going to double trap the toilet ... and literally be "full of $hit" all the time.

    Added with edit: I looked at the photo on my phone, I will look again later on my computer to make sure the photo shows what I think it shows.

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    Tom,

    Is photo oriented the way it actually is? I.e., is that OSB the floor, or is that a wall?

    The photo is fuzzy, even on the computer, and I can't clearly make out what you have or what fittings are where for what purpose.

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    Looks to me like the vent goes downward after the connection to the drain pipe. The vent must slope so any water that enters the pipe can drain properly.

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    The proper orientation is this way (I think).

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    two choices! fix it yourself and breath in waste gases as longs as you live there( not a good idea for your kids, may be too late for you already) and have it fixed by a licensed plumber when you sell the house after the home inspector shows the world your handiwork.
    OH! you already did that!!
    Please call a plumber!!!! Sad! very sad!

    WTF are you inspectors thinking! after those pics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wayne soper View Post
    two choices! fix it yourself and breath in waste gases as longs as you live there( not a good idea for your kids, may be too late for you already) and have it fixed by a licensed plumber when you sell the house after the home inspector shows the world your handiwork.
    OH! you already did that!!
    Please call a plumber!!!! Sad! very sad!

    WTF are you inspectors thinking! after those pics!

    OH I forgot,I'm retired yaaaaaaahhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
    Wayne,

    I'm retired too ... but posting that lack of information and useless post is ... well ... unbecoming of a retired professional inspector ... you were a professional inspector, right?

    The photo is an excellent example of what photos MUST be clear, in focus, and PROPERLY oriented. If you take a sideways photo, before you post it or put it in a report ... ROTATE IT so "up is "up".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Hennessy View Post
    We are having a bit of a time trying to figure out how to vent a toilet in between two joists.
    Would it be okay to loop back to a vent stack. Come off the top of the 3 inch toilet drain with a y and loop it back with a two inch vent to the main vent stack as in the picture, we taped it up so one could see the configurationloopjointenlarged.jpg.
    Wayne, toilets are hooked directly to the soil stack. Am I missing something?

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    Based on the photo ... which is not clear, so this is just a guess as to what might work ... a street closet bend (4 x 3 hub x spigot) ... if you can find one ... then a street sweep (hub x spigot) - that would leave a spigot end facing down to go into the next hub while the two street fittings would reduce the length of the assembled fittings ... albeit a street closet bend with the 4" hub x 3" spigot might prove to be a bit hard to find (easy to find a street closet bend with a 4" spigot and 3" hub, that might work by turning the next street sweep the other way, leaving a hub facing down ready for a pipe, but it might be a bit longer overall).

    Just some pondering of some ponderables.

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    Still trying to make the photo out more clearly - but here is a potential option: the maximum vertical distance of 24 inches from the outlet of the fixture to the trap weir does not apply to a toilet because a toilet has an integral trap ... so maybe you can put the closet bend down below at the pipe shown down there?

    Good photos really do help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerry Peck View Post
    Still trying to make the photo out more clearly - but here is a potential option: the maximum vertical distance of 24 inches from the outlet of the fixture to the trap weir does not apply to a toilet because a toilet has an integral trap ... so maybe you can put the closet bend down below at the pipe shown down there?

    Good photos really do help.
    I agree about photos and from several angles.

    Are we disusing the DWV?
    If so think about a A cheater vent (or air admittance valve) and be done with it.

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    I think you are talking about DWV, or that is how I read it.
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    Try this link.

    How close are you to the wet stack? You might may not require venting.

    Sorry for the edits. Time for bed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBERT YOUNG View Post
    I think you are talking about DWV, or that is how I read it.
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    Try this link.

    How close are you to the wet stack? You might may not require venting.

    Sorry for the edits. Time for bed.
    Sorry about that my phone is on the fritz, no pictures, had to wait for pictures. Hope these give a better idea of the loop and the whole set up. The toilet vent goes back to the bathtub drain/vent, above the bathtub drain trap into the vathtub drain/vent stack. The length of the toilet drain to the stack would be about six feet with a couple of bends. drainloop.jpg


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    apologies for my French but to try and give advice on how to fix after seeing pictures like those is likely to be the wrong advise. Paying a pro is the best advice. just my 2 cents.


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    Quote Originally Posted by wayne soper View Post
    apologies for my French but to try and give advice on how to fix after seeing pictures like those is likely to be the wrong advise. Paying a pro is the best advice. just my 2 cents.

    I won't repeat what everyone has said about the 'pros' but it has something to do with r-pe and in my experience so far they were right. My first plumber took my down of 1500 then said he couldn't do anything until all heat and electricity has been passed because the heating guys "always wind up cutting my pipe"

    So contrary to what I'd hoped, electrical, then plumbing, then heat or concurrently all of them, the plumber refused to do anything until the heat ducts were installed.
    Refused to give any money back.
    This is what my new plumber has to say.

    "it looks quite unorthodox but it follows all the rules. it would be best if the vent from the toilet did not have a hump in the middle but rather went only uphill to the tee on the bathtub vent.it passes code the way its built but the inspector always had final say and he probably won't love this"


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    <img src="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/attachments/plumbing-system-home-inspection-and-commercial-inspection/32851-toilet-venting-loopstack41-jpg" attachmentid="32851" alt="" id="vbattach_32851" class="previewthumb">
    Quote Originally Posted by Jerry Peck View Post
    The proper orientation is this way (I think).
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    nope, ninety degree to the left, the 'down' you have is actually to the toilet, the joint taped to the side is the proposed fix, loop back off the y to the stack. <br>
    <img src="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/attachments/plumbing-system-home-inspection-and-commercial-inspection/32847-toilet-venting-img_1353-jpg" attachmentid="32847" alt="" id="vbattach_32847" class="previewthumb"><img src="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/attachments/plumbing-system-home-inspection-and-commercial-inspection/32848-toilet-venting-loopstack2-jpg" attachmentid="32848" alt="" id="vbattach_32848" class="previewthumb">The configuration in that example contains a 45 which we removed and went with three male/female 22's and the loop is pretty much perfect, flat back and up a bit to the stack/bathtub drain vent. In practice though it may be hard to install, my kid though is quite the muscle, brute force and ignorance as they say sometimes wins the day.

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    Oh, f'n plumber, now I understand! but I can't tell what's up and whats down from your photos.


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    I'm having trouping figuring out the photos and mock-ups. Why can't this toilet be vented like just about every other toilet in this country?


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    Quote Originally Posted by wayne soper View Post
    Oh, f'n plumber, now I understand! but I can't tell what's up and whats down from your photos.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Reinmiller View Post
    I'm having trouping figuring out the photos and mock-ups. Why can't this toilet be vented like just about every other toilet in this country?
    The problem is with the joists. The drain is between two joists and in order to reach a vent stack one would have to cut a 2 inch hole in three of the joists which we are trying to avoid if we can or loop back if possible.
    Can't go straight up anywhere in the floor.
    The first two were taken before we removed the 45 bend we had with 22's.
    The last one is the finished uninstalled 'mockup' using only 22 bends.

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    Default Re: Toilet venting.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Hennessy View Post
    The drain is between two joists and in order to reach a vent stack one would have to cut a 2 inch hole in three of the joists which we are trying to avoid if we can or loop back if possible.
    Is the wall bearing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBERT YOUNG View Post
    Is the wall bearing?
    The wall behind , grey, is the foundation, so it would be bearing , the wall to the left is not, it is just a simple wall.
    We have to see how much a person can cut out of joists, if not we will have to extend it quite a ways before we can vent, esthetically.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Reinmiller View Post
    I'm having trouping figuring out the photos and mock-ups. Why can't this toilet be vented like just about every other toilet in this country?
    Could a person just replace the ninety in the toilet drain with a tee? vent off the top?

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    Default Re: Toilet venting.

    Looks like a wacky mess to me, think you should call a plumber.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Trent Tarter View Post
    Looks like a wacky mess to me, think you should call a plumber.
    i'll send this to my plumber.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Trent Tarter View Post
    you should call a plumber.
    This was my plumbers' suggestion.
    Take the y off the drain over to the wall up the wall back through another wall. or, up into the rafters across back over the room to the stack, which is already pretty cluttered with vent connections. The toilet has to have its own 2 inch vent.

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    The vent has to be in continuous in direction creating a U pattern.
    DWV runs perpendicular the waste or soil stack,dry vent, then down, vertical where a basin, tub or shower stall is tied in, and return perpendicular, back to the soil stack as a DWV wet vent.
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    The diagram you show sets up a possible water trap.
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    Tom, how close are you to the soil stack? You may not require a vent.
    You can always install an air admittance valve/vent and save time and money.
    See if cheater vent, AV, are ok to install in your jurisdiction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBERT YOUNG View Post
    The vent has to be in continuous in direction creating a U pattern.
    DWV runs perpendicular the waste or soil stack,dry vent, then down, vertical where a basin, tub or shower stall is tied in, and return perpendicular, back to the soil stack as a DWV wet vent.
    The diagram you show sets up a possible water trap.

    Tom, how close are you to the soil stack? You may not require a vent.
    You can always install an air admittance valve/vent and save time and money.
    See if cheater vent, AV, are ok to install in your jurisdiction.
    dwv poor setup.JPGIMG_1338.jpg


    Three feet to the ninety, drop another foot, bend 10 inchs and seven inches to the sanitary t.


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    In any way possible is the individual installing the DWV a roller coaster hobbyist of any sort?
    I have to complete a report.
    I will await other to chime in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBERT YOUNG View Post
    In any way possible is the individual installing the DWV a roller coaster hobbyist of any sort?
    I have to complete a report.
    I will await other to chime in.
    Homeowner who isn't familiar with the various calculations and codes.
    So, technically since no fixture five feet to six feet or less from the soil stack needs a vent, then technically neither my bathtub nor my toilet would need a vent because where they enter the soil stack is less than five feet? Is that how it works?
    A little more reading reveals the drop from the fixture cannot be more than a certain amount to the soil stack without requiring a vent which leaves one again with the question whether one can vent from the existing ninety by replacing it with a Sanitary-T and takeoff a new vent straight up through the floor?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Hennessy View Post
    Homeowner who isn't familiar with the various calculations and codes.
    So, technically since no fixture five feet to six feet or less from the soil stack needs a vent, then technically neither my bathtub nor my toilet would need a vent because where they enter the soil stack is less than five feet? Is that how it works?
    Yes.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Hennessy View Post
    A little more reading reveals the drop from the fixture cannot be more than a certain amount to the soil stack without requiring a vent.
    Correct.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Hennessy View Post
    question... vent from the existing ninety.
    The 90% degree is a pipe fitting.
    1: Now, can you use an existing DWV vent to facilitate more fixtures?
    Unsure. It requires calculating what is there.
    2: Can you exchange the 90% degree angle with another fitting to create another DWV vent?
    Yes but you require calculating fixtures and pipe size to insure air flow clearance.

    That is were a qualified plumbers come into the equation, Tom. They should know this stuff.

    Going of post. Plumbers and electrician are very astute individuals, for the most part.
    By all rights plumbers and electricians are GC's, qualified general contractors, in most, if not all states and provinces.

    Hope that helps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBERT YOUNG View Post
    Yes.


    Correct.


    The 90% degree is a pipe fitting.
    1: Now, can you use an existing DWV vent to facilitate more fixtures?
    Unsure. It requires calculating what is there.
    2: Can you exchange the 90% degree angle with another fitting to create another DWV vent?
    Yes but you require calculating fixtures and pipe size to insure air flow clearance.

    That is were a qualified plumbers come into the equation, Tom. They should know this stuff.

    Going of post. Plumbers and electrician are very astute individuals, for the most part.
    By all rights plumbers and electricians are GC's, qualified general contractors, in most, if not all states and provinces.

    Hope that helps.
    "Plumbers and electrician are very astute individuals, for the most part.
    By all rights plumbers and electricians are GC's, qualified general contractors"

    And r-pists, you forgot the part about r-pists. Going in I wasn't aware of the number of people who would use the word to describe this group of .. professionals.
    My plumber got back and said he believes the loop is legal, he didn't mention anything about the possibility there may be too many fixtures on one soil stack, original house, previous property owner may have done some extra work, we're not quite sure. I'm confident he would have noticed if there was that possibility.
    Thanks for the insight.
    I asked him about the ninety replace by the t but I had originally proposed that to him and he had said no, so I pretty much had discarded the idea but it kind of dug at my logic why not and so if the loop is unacceptable, then the vent off the ninety will be next.

    Thanks again.


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