Basically any recent septic line is setup with a fresh air vent. Yes it’s gonna stink like hell probably but there is an actual fresh air source in there
trying to escape is a good option when the fire is just starting. But when you’ve been trapped inside, can’t see, can’t breathe, with no way to leave - go breathe the poo air, and pray to whatever god there might be the firefighters get to you before something collapses on your head
Indeed. The thing that threw me off there was that I’d imagine the increased water pressure in that room immediately flood the u-bend on the toilet, given that toilets flush when more water is added to the bowl.
They taught us this in fire academy. If you run out of air this is an option. But typically, hopefully, they know where you are and will be there with a RIT bag or spare bottle quickly.
I’m putting some cloth over the end with a rubberband and filling it with crushed altoids. If I’m gonna huff sewage fumes, let’s at least make it minty fresh
You should not breathe the air from sewage pipes. You'd have to be at the end of your options to do this, if there's a fire and you can't leave the room via the door or window, you would want to cover the door with clothes/towels whatever to slow the ingress of smoke and open/smash the window calling for help. You should be crawling around if the room is filling with smoke, keep low to the floor as that's where the cleaner air is, the sewage pipe is not cleaner air.
You’ve just made me realized this. In every hotel I have ever been in, even ones which have cost upwards of $600/night, I have never seen a bathroom with a window.
If you think about average hotel construction, most are built similarly; bathroom right as you walk in, bed(s) further out, and a window. I’d wager this is due to keeping the plumbing more centralized to the building core, especially the waste pipes. If you ran the bathrooms to the outer edge of the building, that would increase the length of the plumbing laterals, more space between floors to accommodate greater slope of the waste pipes (and a greater risk of them becoming clogged), and reduced water pressure (without upsizing a pressure pump). It just becomes more economical to build this way, especially when you add a number of floors.
Stayed in a 450/night a couple years ago in Berkeley that definitely had a window in the bathroom. It was an older house, and I’m quite sure that some of the rooms didn’t.
Edit (by house I meant mansion/Palace that’s been converted into a 100ish room hotel)
There should be a vent pipe leading to the roof outside to allow gasses to leave the pipes or smth like that, I’m not a plumber, but I assume this uses that
And the pipe allows air down from the vent on the roof or wherever? I would have thought the vent is to let out pressure from methane build up or something. Plus somehow that air needs to not only get down the pipe but also up the one going to the toilet.
How does air make it all the way down the pipe to the back of the toilet, surely that pipe has methane or other gasses that are the reason for the vent existing?
The vent is to stop vacuum from forming behind your water traps when someone else flushes on the same drain line. There shouldn’t be any real amount of decomposing waste in that pipe permanently, it should wash along to sewer or septic tank. The vent pipe definitely has enough to breath but one can only imagine the smell or taste.
Ok, so I am assuming this means these is no windows or other possible air sources. Why not just break the toilet bowl, and stick the tube out of the top of the downpipe. If your house is on fire, I assume the toilet bowl is not priority from a retention perspective
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