Venting a downstairs loo

[DIYedboy]

I intend to fit an extractor into my new downstairs toilet,it doesn't have a window, can I vent the pipe into the adjacent garage? (there's a bedroom above the garage)

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

No, to open air.

 

[mattylad]

You can vent it through the garage to the open air.....

 

[DIYedboy]

Thanks lads, that's a shame...........when you think about it, if you can park a car in a garage that is soaking wet, dries and allows all that moisture into the room and when you start it, it puffs exhaust fumes into the garage, there should be no problem with a loo extractor fan venting some fart fumes into that same area!!! How ridiculous is that!

 

[Nakajo]

The amount of moisture, fumes, whatever, that the car can release is finite (in order for it to continue, the garage door has to be opened so that the car can go and get more petrol, rain, etc). The toilet on the other hand can sit there quietly farting away for ever (or until the garage blows up).

 

[^woody^]

And if you've drove this car through a field full of dog crap, then yes, it would be just the same as venting the toilet into the garage.

 

[John D v2.0]

I thought it was for fire reasons not a problem with the garage. Certainly one I looked at, building control required the duct for the utility room to be boxed in with plasterboard. Otherwise the fire from the garage could go straight through!

 

[mattylad]

What I meant above is, have the vent pipe pass through the garage to the outside.