NM_Guy
May 17, 2009, 08:31 PM
I am an owner-builder of a timber frame house built on a slab and having a loft bedroom and dormer windows lining the main roof (16-12 pitch) with the master bath in one of the sheds lining the full length of main portion with the loft. I am doing the plumbing and pulled the permit personally. I have researched my problem of how to run the vents in about 10 plumbing books but they all deal with conventionally stick-framed houses with attics and basements and don't cover my problem. I have one drain directly underneath a timber "outshot tie beam" which is in turn directly under a timber rafter. I can work the vent for it around a corner and into the adjacent wall where I have two other drains needing vents. If I go straight up through the cathedral ceiling I will exit the roof about 1 foot in front of the series of dormer windows which are about 12 feet apart in a line on each side of the building. Thus, I would have to run the vent pipes up to a point 3 feet higher than the windows which would really be ugly. On the other hand, if I run the vent pipes around the next corner to the next adjacent wall and then out near the edge of the shed roof, I will still be within 10 feet of other windows and doors and will have to run the vent pipes horizontally through the interior walls about 20 feet or so to get near the shed roof edge. What a bummer this is turning out to be. I don't know what to do. To make matters worse, the house will occasionally be subjected to heavy snows (12-15 inches at a time) and the roof will be a standing seam metal roof and another poster to this site noted that the sliding snow can break off vent pipes. I can post pictures if necessary. BTW, I understand that AAVs are not permitted in New Mexico which would otherwise solve all my problems. Any suggestions you can make would be greatly appreciated.