I am wondering about inline vents what are thier acceptible usages?
In a house we are remodeling when we took the walls offs (plaster and 80's panelboard) we found plumbing vents (probably installed in the earily 90's) throu the studs in such a way that that there was a 1/2 inch left of the studs. now I think its been like this for a good while but in our haste (and ingnorance) worrying that the stud's werent strong enough we removed the plumbing not know what its porpose was and attached brace boards on to the studs. now we are going to be have to be putting the plumbing back together and I was wondering how we should accoplise this should we put back the plumbing we tore apart and remove the bracings i put in or work another way to do it... as far as i can tell the wall is not a major load bearing wall but it does support a bit of the load beacuse it is situated over a large joist (6x10 which they mutalated in parts making it a 2x10 which we have fixed by removing some of the plumbing and furnace ducting that was running throu it) in the basement
now back to the inline vents can we use them at all the fixtures (there is a main vent from the sewer we didn't break thats goes to the roof) in so that we don't have to run the traditional vents to the roof? or is that not a good idea?
thanks for any help on the subject
