by haoconn »
Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:22 pm
Hi.
We have a holiday cottage that has 2 bedrooms with ensuite wet room style showers, wash basin & wc, and an open plan lounge and dining kitchen area.
Our problem is that when the wash basins or the sink in the kitchen drain water, they create a vacuum and suck the water out of the shower water traps. This allows foul smells back up into the shower.
A builder has told us that we need to separate completely our bedroom and kitchen basins from our showers that would involve a lot of new plumbing. Another plumber has suggested that if we install anti vac traps on the water basins that this might solve it.
I’d really welcome some advice as a novice in the plumbing world!
I attach two pictures that show the type of shower water traps that we have.
Anthony
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