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RockyG666 63M
1747 posts
1/29/2014 3:34 pm

Last Read:
2/27/2014 3:43 pm

basement commode

i have been working on my basement all winter. the plan is to make it into an independent in-law apartment if my , or friends, need a place to stay. there is a pretty big bedroom in the basement, and that is where my friend charlie stayed for the last year. my friend mike is staying there now. but there is no washroom in the basement and so borders have to use mine, or the one in the church.

so i am putting in a bathroom. i got a really nice shower platform cheap on ebay, and i got a urinal and a sink on craig's list dirt cheap. my roomie mike is a plumber and he is doing the plumbing for rent. he works here at least one full day a week, and sometimes two. most of the plumbing is done. i finished piping the electric in there today and started drywalling the ceiling. it is almost ready.

we are putting a kitchenette in too...but one thing at a time. we ran all the pipe we need there, but we still have to dig a drain out.

i really have not spent much money doing this at all so far. what is going to kill me is the toilet. i have to get a macerating pump and those are expensive. we are going to tie the pump into the gangway as a drain too. that way i can just hose down poop and the like into the pump and out to the sewer. a good macerator is over a grand new, and you can't really buy them used. that is more than everything i have spent so far. WAY more.

that is why we are putting the urinal in for now. we ran all the pipes for the toilette, but the pump is going to take a while to save for. usually i have male roomies and they can go into the church for that once or twice a day time, but be able to use the urinal otherwise. especially in the middle of the night. the church gets really cold at night, and you have to walk up some cold stairs from the basement to get there.


RockyG666 63M
1357 posts
1/29/2014 7:59 pm

i am kinda slow, and i cut three times and measure twice, but i can do it.