Adding a New Bathroom Is Challenging

Drainage is always something that takes extensive planning.
Adding a New Bathroom Is Challenging
This treated lumber platform will allow a new shower to drain by gravity instead of using a sewage pump. Tim Carter/Tribune Content Agency/TNS
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I’ve shared in a few recent columns how I’m helping my son finish his basement. I’m having a great time building memories for the both of us. I made a sign from a scrap piece of drywall a few months ago: “Will Work for Food (Good Food).” I signed and dated it. I intend to have the sign framed and hope it hangs on the side wall of the speakeasy for decades. Fortunately, my son is a great cook, so I get paid very well.

One of the major challenges in this project is the full bathroom. The building drain exits the house about 4 inches above the concrete floor. A building drain is the main pipe that collects all the liquid and solid waste in your home and transports it to the city sewer or a septic tank.

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