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tatertot

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I hired a handyman to convert a 1/2 bath to bull bathroom in my basement and am fairly sure I found a few code violations. I am looking for some help confirming before I talk to him tomorrow morning. I am considering contracting with a plumber to get this fixed correctly and letting the handyman finish the rest of it. What flagged the issue is that they did not leave enough room for the toilet. I started reading the IPC and am fairly sure I found two additional code violations.

1) Toilet is not vented properly, the vent needs to be downstream of the toile drain, I think this can be fixed by either relocating the vanity drain and vent (concrete will be to be reopened) or adding a dedicated vent for the toilet
2) Use of a sanitary T at the toilet connection

Is there anything I missed? Thoughts the plan to fix this? I attached a couple pictures.

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You definitely and totally wasted your money on that handy man.
Number ONE issue: Tees may not be used in the horizontal plane. Not for a WC, ever, nor on side layout.
You need a plumber, but will probably need to demo more because even with horizontal wet venting, the drains cannot go into the WC like that.
 
You definitely and totally wasted your money on that handy man.
Number ONE issue: Tees may not be used in the horizontal plane. Not for a WC, ever, nor on side layout.
You need a plumber, but will probably need to demo more because even with horizontal wet venting, the drains cannot go into the WC like that.
Thanks for the response.. live and learn I guess
 
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