| My basement remodeling company will install a new | | | | toilet, sink and shower/tub will drain into the floor just |
| bathroom, a wet bar, or both, in more than 75% of | | | | like any other bathroom you have in your home! |
| the basements that we finish for our clients! Any | | | | These Sewage Ejector Systems work very, very |
| basement can easily have either a bathroom or a | | | | well, and are very dependable if installed and vented |
| wet bar added during construction! | | | | correctly. CALL A PLUMBER TO DO THIS FOR YOU! |
| There are a few "tricks-of-the-trade" involved when | | | | The systems usually cost around $ 400.00 complete |
| adding bathrooms and wet bars to basements | | | | + labor costs over and above this cost. |
| because of the unconventional ways in which these | | | | If the wet bar is positioned "friendly" and |
| areas drain waste water. Being so far below grade | | | | conveniently to the sewage ejector location, it too |
| normally forces you to add some type of "pump" | | | | can be drain directly into this system "killing 2 birds |
| into the mix to make this possible. | | | | with one stone"! |
| ALL of the bathrooms that have this drainage | | | | If the wet bar is NOT in a "friendly and convenient |
| problem require a "Sewage Ejector" of some type to | | | | location in reference to the Sewage Ejector System |
| pump the bathroom waste water "up-and-out" to the | | | | a "Tray Pump System" can be used instead. This |
| home existing waste water drainage lines. Very few | | | | system does not go in the floor like the Sewage |
| basements (maybe 10% or less) will enable you to | | | | Ejector system! This Tray Pump "bolts" directly to |
| drain the bathroom waste water directly in plumbing | | | | the strainer cup of your bar sink under the sink inside |
| waste lines "below" the concrete floor level. If you | | | | the sink base cabinet! This convenient little pump will |
| have waste lines that exit the basement at a level | | | | pump all "liquid only" waste up and out into the |
| that is higher than the finished concrete floor level | | | | homes existing waste water lines with no problem! |
| you WILL NEED A SEWAGE EJECTOR SYSTEM | | | | The hot and cold water lines that feed the bathroom |
| INSTALLED! | | | | and the wet bar areas are traditionally plumbed just |
| These systems are not rocket science to install, | | | | like any other pluming fixture in the house. It's ONLY |
| although i do recommend that persons with no prior | | | | the waste water drainage that makes basement |
| experience installing these animals NOT try it | | | | bathrooms and wet bars different to plumb versus |
| themselves! These sewage ejector pump systems | | | | any other pluming fixture in the house! |
| are installed in the floor below the concrete level and | | | | Again I recommend that inexperienced participants |
| require the installed to cut the concrete floor, dig-out | | | | NOT TRY THIS THEMSELVES! Hire a PRO to install |
| a large and deep hole (about 3' deep!) and then install | | | | these systems. If you are head-strong wanting to |
| a sewage ejector pit and pump system! Not for the | | | | tackle this yourself I have another basement finishing |
| timid! | | | | video series that you can watch that will teach you in |
| But, once installed by you or a plumbing | | | | detail how to Do-It-Yourself! |
| subcontractor, the bathroom waste water from the | | | | |