If you have a trap at each sink, shower or tub and stool, which is built in why not eliminate both and make sure to add a clean out fitting at the same time. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] home sewer lines
thanks Dale. we need to make some changes and one of those now will to delete one of the two traps. these have been installed since 1951. thanks for the heads up.Lee On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 06:30:21PM -0400, Dale Leavens wrote: > Hi Lee, > > I can think of no reason or advantage to having more than one trap in a line. You might want one in each branch line but more usually at the end of a branch right at the fixture. There could be some disadvantages, a trap introduces a lot of turbulence which can cause debris to fall out of suspension and thereby increase probability of blockage. > > The point of a trap is just to seal against sewer gasses passing back up stream. The water in the bottom of the 'U' does that and two won't do it any better. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee A. Stone > To: Blind Handyman > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:05 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] home sewer lines > > > > > Is there any reason why one might want to install more than one trap > in a sewere line before it leaves the house. ? the existing set up > here is pvc lines that feed into a cast iron line which then runs > into two traps. maybe not more than a foot apart and within two more > feet this line goes out thru the basement wall. Lee > > -- > Do your otters do the shimmy? > Do they like to shake their tails? > Do your wombats sleep in tophats? > Is your garden full of snails? > Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1470 - Release Date: 5/28/2008 7:20 AM > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Do your otters do the shimmy? Do they like to shake their tails? Do your wombats sleep in tophats? Is your garden full of snails? Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
