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Hi Guys,
Please have a look at the picture, does anyone know what the hell the pipe is coming out of the top the waste pipe to the basin?
Background - Its in my parents house which is about 35 years old, the whole estate they live on was plumbed in plastic pipework when they were built, not just under the floor, I mean the whole house!!
Anyway, as you can see by the picture, where the trap connects to the waste pipe, the waste pipe is open at the top, and the pipe entering the top of it a 15mm (approx) and in plastic, this pipe has to elbows on right up under the basin, down to the floorboards and follows the waste pipe under the bath and obviously joins the main soil on the other side of the bathroom.
My question is what is it for!!! Never seen anything like it before, was thinking it might be somekind of vent, but only guessing!
Do not ever get any smells coming out of the waste pipe either which seems a bit odd as its open at the top, cant see down into it to see how far down the smaller pipe goes without taking sink etc off.
Hopefully one of you knowledgeable poeple can enlighten me?
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Please have a look at the picture, does anyone know what the hell the pipe is coming out of the top the waste pipe to the basin?
Background - Its in my parents house which is about 35 years old, the whole estate they live on was plumbed in plastic pipework when they were built, not just under the floor, I mean the whole house!!
Anyway, as you can see by the picture, where the trap connects to the waste pipe, the waste pipe is open at the top, and the pipe entering the top of it a 15mm (approx) and in plastic, this pipe has to elbows on right up under the basin, down to the floorboards and follows the waste pipe under the bath and obviously joins the main soil on the other side of the bathroom.
My question is what is it for!!! Never seen anything like it before, was thinking it might be somekind of vent, but only guessing!
Do not ever get any smells coming out of the waste pipe either which seems a bit odd as its open at the top, cant see down into it to see how far down the smaller pipe goes without taking sink etc off.
Hopefully one of you knowledgeable poeple can enlighten me?
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