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Percheron
Feb 18, 2006, 01:07 PM
I am installing a basement shower which was stubbed when the floor was poured.

A P trap is in the floor about 3' from the main horizontal sanitary line which goes out to the septic. I can see no vent lines and wonder if I need to vent the shower.

If I do need to vent it, the vent needs to be between the trap and the sanitary line, correct? I also have no vent for the sink which was also stubbed in.
If I need to vent these two appliances, may I vent up and out through a 2 in line terminating under a deck or do I need to tie into the attic stack?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

speedball1
Feb 18, 2006, 02:29 PM
Hi Dave,

Let's not get hasty. Are there any other vented fixtures in the basement. Utility sink? Washer? If there is then the shower's probably wet-vented back to the drain of one of them. As a rule we wet vent our tub and shower rough ins. If there isn't any way to wet vent it then we stub up a vent so the home owner doesn't have to break up cement. Let me know. Tom