Locating Floor Drains In Bathrooms

Determine the new bathroom configuration to suit your existing home drainage system.

Locating floor drains in bathrooms.

Frozen drain levers are usually from the corroded bucket gate at the bottom. The purpose of this drain trap is to hold standing water which seals the drain system and prevents sewer gases from. Sometimes drains become really difficult to remove and require a friction drain removal tool. This is if you have a plastic drain pipe like pvc or abs.

Toilet rough in details. This feature is simply an elbow in the drain pipe that fills with water. Measured from centerline running vertically through the center of the toilet supply line hole should be 6 inches to the side of centerline. The center of the lav s drain is located 18 approximately above the finished floor.

These are handy when the inside cross piece of the drain is broken off or has corroded away. We will use these fittings to plumb this bathroom in just a moment. Cold water only pipe creates one hole between 5 and 10 inches above the floor supply line horizontal. Second good floor drains are typically designed to keep unpleasant odors from entering the restroom through the drain.

Immediately beneath a sink bathtub or other plumbing fixture the fixture drain opening leads to a curved segment of pipe known as the p trap which is normally a 1 1 4 to 2 inch diameter segment of pipe with a sharp curved bend in it shaped like the letter p. This is the easiest way to find your drain under your basement concrete floor slab. Ideally 8 1 4 inches above the floor. Design your new configuration so that the new drainpipes run parallel to the joists and between them.

I made an imp. Most floor drains are designed with a feature called a p trap because it is shaped roughly like the letter p turned on its side. The bathroom sink rough in dimensions are as follows. While it s possible to move almost any large fixture beneath the bathroom floor are supporting joists that you should not cut in order to install new drains.