Adding Basement Plumbing to Your Home - Essential Facts You Should Know

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POST: Hi, and welcome to another episode of "What's New in Plumbing." I'm Boruch Fishman and today we're going to be talking with Pinchus Urszuy Co-Owner of A-1 Plumbing of Baltimore, a %LINK1% company. And we will be talking about what things you should know before beginning to install a %LINK2%. Pinchus: If you're looking to remodel your basement and you want to add a bar sink or if you want to install a second bathroom or a shower, or you want to add a shower or bathtub to an existing bathroom or if you don't have a bathroom in the basement and you want to add one, here are some things you need to consider.The initial and most essential piece of information is to know where your sewer comes into the house Sometimes it comes in under the slab, which is under the concrete floor, and sometimes, it comes above the slab. So those are two different scenarios.

If your sewer is located beneath your basement floor, then a professional plumber can locate with the appropriate tool. And he can help you lay out your basement. Or better yet, he tell you what you need to know so that if you want to get it laid out, you will already know a certain amount of information so that an architect can draw up a set of drawings, before beginning the %LINK3% If the sewer is located underground, and you're the type of person that likes to get right down to work, without a lot of pre-construction planning, then you can ask your plumber to check the plumbing by opening the floor. The professional plumber will be able to tell you if there is enough slope in the drainage pipes to empty your toilet and other fixtures by gravity. Everything runs downhill.

So when you flush your toilet, just the weight of the water and the fact that it runs downhill carries it into the city sewer. Let's say the plumber discovers that there won't be enough slope between the plumbing fixtures and the outgoing sewer line to drain everything by gravity. In that case, he will have to install for you a sewage ejector. The plumber digs a hole, and puts a pit in and puts a pump in. And what happens now is that the bathroom will empty into this pit, and the pump in the pit will pump all the raw sewage into the sanitary sewer line which is high enough to go out to the city sewer. So those are the two ways of tying into the city system. Boruch: Pinchus has now explained to us the two basic scenarios that exist in the basement, when you want to add basement plumbing and ways in which a plumber can help you clarify, which of the two scenarios applies to you. As he has If noted, either your existing plumbing lies below the basement flooring, which means the toilet will drain with the force of gravity, or the sewer lies above the basement flooring, in which case you will need to use a sewage ejection system. We want to thank Pinchus for taking the time to talk with us, and folks, have a great day.

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A-1 Plumbing of Baltimore is a Baltimore plumbing company which specializes in bathroom plumbing

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