[Le-local] Le local: plumbing questions for weds meeting with landlord

[ari.ma at riseup.net]

Laura and I looked at this together yesterday and I am seriously a bit 
worried, looking up what it takes to install a bathroom in a basement, 
and talking to some folks who know a bit more about plumbing it seems 
much more complicated than I had possibly expected.

- There is much less pressure for flushing due to lack of gravity. the 
majority of things I read recommend installing special toilets with 
higher drain pressure or other expensive sounding things
- it seems like we will have to rip open the floor to get to the main 
waste drain line - cutting through concrete without knowing where shit 
is sounds pretty dangerous to me...

I am reaching out to friends and networks to see if there is a plumber 
hiding somewhere who could help us have a look at plans, but honestly I 
am getting a bit weary if this is beyond our capacities...

:(


Le 2016-11-19 20:29, Guillaume ! a écrit :
> Hi !
> 
> Thanks so much for figuring that out ! I added a bunch of shit we have
> to measure before the meeting (just so we don't forget stuff) to the
> document we had to prepare the meeting. I have some stuff I should
> have told I've researched, I left notes inlined below:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 06:40:33PM -0500, Laura Sirois wrote:
>> Halloo all,
>> 
>> 2) specifically want from the landlord:
>> a. blueprints of the space & where existing plumbing vents and drains 
>> are
>> located.
> 
> Re: vents: http://www.rona.ca/en/air-admittance-valve ; those things 
> are
> "code approved" and I think they'd save us some complicated piping as
> the kitchen sink is just far away from all the other sinks.
> 
>> b. placement of main water shut-off and how/where we get access - we 
>> need
>> to be sure we can work on plumbing when water to our floor is cut off. 
>> If
>> we cannot shut off water to one floor, and instead must shut it off to 
>> the
>> entire building, we have to have the landlord negotiate a week of
>> water-shut-off time for the entire building.
> 
> My vision was that when we get in our space, cut water off for an hour 
> or
> so while we solder a main valve (in case there is none, but they cost 
> 5$,
> so I planned to buy 10 of them (4 sinks x 2 (hot+cold) + 1 main + 1 for
> the shitter). Let me know if that's good enough.
> 
>> d. placement of main water supply into the space
>> e. placement of water meter - do we need one for our own space or is 
>> it one
>> for the building?
>> 
>> Thanks all,
>> Lo
> 
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