Moving/reconnecting washing machine
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Moving/reconnecting washing machine
I am moving my washer and wanted to know if I could run my vent stack outside of my house and not go through the roof. My hookups would be 30" to the p trap then a 10 " arm to an elbow through the floor to the outside. Drop 8" to another elbow away from the house and then put a vent on continuing to a grey water discharge. Thanks for any help.
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I would not run a vent outside a house, merely for aesthetic reasons. You may be able to install a studor type air admittance valve, depending on location. You can't send a vent back down through the floor.
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You can't drop vertically before the vent. Otherwise the vent loses its purpose for being there as you're basically creating an 'S' trap.
There's no code-based reason that you can't run the vent pipe up the outside of your house, but as Larry mentioned, it's rarely done on houses as it looks funny.
There's no code-based reason that you can't run the vent pipe up the outside of your house, but as Larry mentioned, it's rarely done on houses as it looks funny.