The drain is the hardest part of putting a bathroom into a basement. Depending on when your house was built, you might have an extra drain somewhere that was pre-placed for exactly this purpose, but if you don't, you'll have to find some way to connect to your existing drain. This may involve breaking up some of the concrete to gain access to it at a lower point than is available.
You wouldn't want to make a small mistake and have raw sewage float over your basement floors.Yeah, that would stink.
You might want to get a real plumber to handle this. You wouldn't want to make a small mistake and have raw sewage float over your basement floors.
For what it's worth, they did this exact thing (except I think just a toilet was involved -- maybe a sink, too) on ``Ask This Old House'' not too long ago at all. It was Program 119, if you can figure out how to get a copy of it.
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Put the drains under the concrete. YES, this sounds drastic and terribly difficult to do, but it is not.. A $35 rental of an electric power chisel for a few hours, with a fan in the window (blowing OUT, not in), and there it is.
Lots of how-to books describe the whole process, as do several episodes of "Home Time" (videos available).
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Ah! Check it out: A whole sewage pump kit, and it has an install document in PDF right there on the web site. (Or Word Doc. It's the same thing, right? )
rent a jackhammer and plow through all that concrete!
rent a jackhammer and plow through all that concrete!
I can't believe we're talking about poo pumpers
