This article presents a comprehensive guide on how to build a sanitary system by connecting various elements such as toilets, urinals and pipes. The article provides step-by-step instructions, detailing the selection process, the necessary adjustments for connections, and the importance of choosing the right slope to prevent errors.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of correctly connecting different elements in a sanitary system. Every item, such as a toilet or urinal, needs to be properly linked to the pipes using Revit, a software program for building information modeling.
- In the process of building the sanitary system, it's crucial to choose the correct slope for the pipes. Choosing the wrong slope, such as sloping up when you should be sloping down, can cause errors in the system.
- The guide also highlights the need to constantly review and refine the sanitary system. This includes tasks such as deleting unnecessary parts and trimming certain elements to ensure a seamless and efficient sanitary system.
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Uh, we're going to continue building our sanitary system here. We're going to kind of change it up a little bit.
I know on the first floor that we did all of these different tie-ins down here like this. But you know, we may need to, we need to take a look. One thing that we kind of forgot to do, not necessarily forgot to do, but we need to take a look at what our system is and see how these guys have their sanitary and everything connected.
So I'm going to go back up to my second floor and let's take a look at my toilet. So I'm going to select one of them. I'm going to go ahead and use my selection box.
And if we take a look at this, we can see there's a wall mounted wall discharge toilet. So it's a little bit different. Now, if we had floor discharge toilets, we would go ahead potentially and do it in the fashion that we did on the first floor, right? Cause I'm running out to the floor there, but, and we're going to have to come back and clean this up, but we can actually tie these in right now.
Pretty simple. So what we'll end up doing is that what we're going to go ahead and do is if I select this, you can see where I have my connectors. Now there's two connectors stacked here, just like what we had in our 3D view.
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If I look at my 3D, you can see, I have my water connection here and my drain connection there. So what ends up happening is that when I click on this, Revit knows that both of those are there and then I can choose my connector. So what I'm going to end up doing is I'm going to select this, click here.
I'm going to choose my connector for two sanitary round 14 inch and or four inch, excuse me, not 14 inch hit. Okay. And then I need to check a couple of pipe things.
I want to make sure all this here is pretty good. Most of these things are fine, but the one big thing you want to do is choose slope down or slope off. Cause we're coming out of the toilet, right? We're going to be sloping down or me.
We, it's such a short run. We may not really be sloping at all, but the reason why is, is if you guys still have slope up selected, what's going to end up happening is that it's going to actually give you an error. If I were to go slope down and I drag over and I just pick boom, it puts in my connection.
Looks great, right? Everything's good. We're good to go. Well, if I were, I'm going to undo.
If I go here, click on the sanitary, choose sanitary there, hit okay. And I choose slope up and I do this. It gives me this error.
The resulting angle between the segments is too great or too small. So it just doesn't want to work because I'm sloping up away from the pipe, but I'm trying to go turn down to it. So that's just the one reason.
We're going to go ahead and tie in all of these toilets here. So I'm going to pick there, choose sanitary, hit okay. And in this instance, doing it this way method tends to work because we're using a little wall mounted.
If we were using a floor discharge, it'd be a little bit different. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go slope down and then I can just go there and I've tied that in. I'm going to go to this toilet, do the same exact thing.
Sanitary. Okay. Go here, there.
And then I'm just going to work my way down, only doing the sanitary ones for right now. And you'll notice that when you have it connected to just one system, the fixture turns green again, and it'll stay on that slope down as you keep going. So it's kind of nice in that sense that it does that for you.
There we go. We've tied those in. So in this instance, this really worked out well to have these floor discharge and that pipe a little bit lower than the floor.
I'm going to come up here and do the same exact thing. Sanitary around, boom there, come here, sanitary around, and now I'm just tying these into the system and we'll need to go clean up. Let's take a look at our urinal here and see what this is happening.
If I go to, let's see here, I'm going to go to my 3D view. I found that sometimes the best here is the 3D. So this is one of those set.
This is one of those times where I'm kind of like, well, this is on the bottom. And so see how this connector, it wants to come. If I go like that, I have to kind of do it in a section view because it doesn't want to do this.
So this is kind of why sometimes when I have fixtures like that, we'll go back to our original way of doing the 45s off so that I can manage it properly. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go pipe. Remember, our urinals are a two inch.
In this instance, we're going to be sloping up and inherit elevation. So I'm going to go from here to here. Oh, I didn't do that.
Didn't go quite far enough and here in elevation. There we go. Let's make sure we get enough.
No, I'm not getting enough length on that. We'll go back a little farther. And here at elevation.
Boop. Boop. There we go.
And here at elevation. And let me retry that one. I didn't, the spot that I started at wasn't the greatest.
Let's see. We'll connect there. Nope.
It won't connect. We'll just have to create this. And then we'll have to look at this in section and actually create the actual connection.
It's kind of a, depending upon where that connector is, it can be a little funky sometimes. Boom, boom, boom. And there we go.
Let's go down to our first floor and let's actually, we're going to redo this plumbing line here. So what I'm going to end up doing is I'm just going to delete all of, well, I need to just delete this portion. I need to delete these on the men's so we can do this.
And if you delete that, you want to come back immediately and trim that back up just because again, that slow piping can get a little funky. So I'm going to delete these pieces and then immediately trim this back up. There we go.
And then I can come out of here, click on this again, sanitary hit. Okay. Remember change your slope.
If you leave it to slope up, it's not going to work. So I'm going to slope down, go there, pick there, come here. And now that I searched it to slope down, it'll stay in slope down there.
Okay. Oh, that's no, that's where I wanted to be. Let's go click here.
Sanitary. Okay. Nope.
There we go. And then come down here also. So I'm going to delete that.
Remember if, and then go through here. I'm just going to delete some of these. Not a big deal.
Let's see. Nope. We'll have to get that one here later.
Again, I want to make sure I'm trimming as I go. I've sometimes found that Revit doesn't like it when you, um, leave, have too many disjointed pieces of pipe for whatever reason, and you can also tab select and delete them so I could tab select, delete, delete, trim, tab, select. Well, don't want tabs like that much tabs like there, delete, delete, trim.
And then here I can go ahead sanitary. Okay. Make sure I'm sloping down, which I am.
That's good. And just pop it in and then sanitary slope down. There we go.
Sanitary slope down. There we are. Sanitary slope down.
And in this instance, I'm going to draw this out a little farther. Draw pipe and we'll leave space for our cleanup up. And that was probably my slope.
I need to slope up to match the slope. I also need to change it to eighth of an inch. We'll leave a little bit of room for our clean out here.
And then here, there we go. Perfect. Oh, the slope up actually worked in that instance.
Wait, why is, oh, I think I drew from the wrong pipe. No, it seems to be working. Let me see here.
Let's take a look at this guy in 3D. I may have just automatically done it. Revit is sometimes interesting.
And there we are. We've connected our toilets into our mains. Oh, I can delete that little guy.
Perfect. Uh, let me see here. So let's take a peek.
Okay. I think we got all of our toilets turned in and we have all of the synchronizers. Let's go ahead and stop this video here.
Oh, wait, what? Why is this? Let me see. Sanitary. Okay.
And there we go. Okay. Now it's all tied in.
All right. We should have all that. Let's double check our urinals real quickly.
I think we already had them on the first floor plumbing. We are good with the urinals cause we still need to bring those up. We'll stop this video here and we'll see you in the next one.