cmac2012
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I hope you guys don't take a poll and decide to run me out of here so as not to tarnish the reputation of this place, but ... this is actually a serious question. I have a nice new client, well, about a year into working on their stuff, they bought a loft in an older converted SF building about 6 months ago. The building is interesting, about half of the units are for dwelling, the other half more for office. Their first unit was a full tilt apartment. Their second is an office unit just across the hallway. This unit has a washer and dryer with 220 outlet, hot and cold water of course and a 2 inch drain.
The lady of the house wants to turn the office into half living unit, their college age son comes to visit and they'd like a place for him to have his own room, which just isn't there in the main unit. Her hope is to have a toilet that can be used for liquids only, good old number one. He expressed displeasure with needing to put on enough clothes to go across the hallway (all resident access hallway) to use the privvy at night.
They assure me that no solids would ever be introduced into that toilet. Putting in a 3 inch drain in this unit is out of the question. I'm not sure this would pass the HOA rules, no scratch that, it would not get approval. The room is long, maybe 50', about 10' wide. She wants a wall put in about 8 or 10 feet away from the wall that has the washer/dryer and where the new small water closet would be put. I'll sheet rock the outside surface at least, we have leftover paint, can make it look like part of the room. This would give a camouflaged effect for the changes which should not be seen by people walking the hallway when the door is open.
My thought is to put the toilet on a 15 inch platform, the door would open to a 7.5 inch step, one more up to the throne. That way I'd only have to go into the wall to attach to the laundry drain, opening the floor would be a nightmare.
Putting aside such points as "am I out of my mind," my immediate concern is if the 2 inch pipe would accept a flush without complaining. I get that those ususally pass through a 2" opening or slightly bigger at the bottom but then there's normally room in the 3" pipe to let the water then move at the speed it wants to move. Another issue is the trap on the laundry drain. Those are often near the bottom, would need to tie in below that of course.
The lady of the house wants to turn the office into half living unit, their college age son comes to visit and they'd like a place for him to have his own room, which just isn't there in the main unit. Her hope is to have a toilet that can be used for liquids only, good old number one. He expressed displeasure with needing to put on enough clothes to go across the hallway (all resident access hallway) to use the privvy at night.
They assure me that no solids would ever be introduced into that toilet. Putting in a 3 inch drain in this unit is out of the question. I'm not sure this would pass the HOA rules, no scratch that, it would not get approval. The room is long, maybe 50', about 10' wide. She wants a wall put in about 8 or 10 feet away from the wall that has the washer/dryer and where the new small water closet would be put. I'll sheet rock the outside surface at least, we have leftover paint, can make it look like part of the room. This would give a camouflaged effect for the changes which should not be seen by people walking the hallway when the door is open.
My thought is to put the toilet on a 15 inch platform, the door would open to a 7.5 inch step, one more up to the throne. That way I'd only have to go into the wall to attach to the laundry drain, opening the floor would be a nightmare.
Putting aside such points as "am I out of my mind," my immediate concern is if the 2 inch pipe would accept a flush without complaining. I get that those ususally pass through a 2" opening or slightly bigger at the bottom but then there's normally room in the 3" pipe to let the water then move at the speed it wants to move. Another issue is the trap on the laundry drain. Those are often near the bottom, would need to tie in below that of course.