10-27-2018, 02:57 PM
I have a 80+ year old house.
It has the original cast iron waste & vent in it. It is rusting thru & the oakum has fallen out in areas.
That's just one problem. Another is the house has separate drains. The sink & washer dump into a "Y" pipe that leaves the house at one end & goes to a French drain out in the yard. That pipe has broken & the washer pump backs up in the kitchen sink now.
It quit draining down last week.
So, a friend of mine who is a plumber came out & installed the kitchen drain back to the sewer cast iron pipe instead of the 2" PVC pipe it had to run out the other drain. He cut a pipe that had a vent on it that tied it with the "Y" from the washer pump. Now, the "Y" pipe from the kitchen drain backs up into the shower stall in the bathroom behind the kitchen.
Since the pipe was cut, there is no vent to the kitchen drain or the bathroom on the other side of the wall from it.
Would hooking the "Y" pipe back to the kitchen drain pipe provide the vent it needs to drain?
I know, clear as mud, right?
It has the original cast iron waste & vent in it. It is rusting thru & the oakum has fallen out in areas.
That's just one problem. Another is the house has separate drains. The sink & washer dump into a "Y" pipe that leaves the house at one end & goes to a French drain out in the yard. That pipe has broken & the washer pump backs up in the kitchen sink now.
It quit draining down last week.
So, a friend of mine who is a plumber came out & installed the kitchen drain back to the sewer cast iron pipe instead of the 2" PVC pipe it had to run out the other drain. He cut a pipe that had a vent on it that tied it with the "Y" from the washer pump. Now, the "Y" pipe from the kitchen drain backs up into the shower stall in the bathroom behind the kitchen.
Since the pipe was cut, there is no vent to the kitchen drain or the bathroom on the other side of the wall from it.
Would hooking the "Y" pipe back to the kitchen drain pipe provide the vent it needs to drain?
I know, clear as mud, right?