Posted on 09/20/2005 11:02:05 AM PDT by rudy45
Friends of ours moved into a home recently. To my surprise, when I went to a bathroom, I found that the sink had NO overflow protection. Wouldn't you know it, a few days later, I learned that someone had stopped the sink but left the faucet running. The overflow caused damage to the ceiling below the bathroom.
I called Home Depot and they said the only sinks they sell are ones WITH overflow protection.
Are there any code requirements regarding overflow protection for bathroom sinks? Thanks.
Thank goodness Clinton didn't use one like that!
I don't know of any code requiring bathroom sinks to have OFP...the one in my master bath doesn't.
Is there a reason you don't want it?
There's a code against beating the person who stopped up the sink and left the faucet running.
Sorry.
Well, we all know that your builder really cut corners. :)
Thanks...it's the home of friends...the only reason I can think of for having non-OVP sinks is cost, perhaps? Probably a builder who was trying to save money?
Thanks.
Hrmpt,
Well,
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yeah.
I think it depends on the sink style.
Some of the newer vessel sinks don't have OFP because they're supposed to look like antique bowls etc (check them out on ebay). Mine looks like a big bowl sitting on top of the counter, not like a sink at all.
Most modern, in the counter sinks and pedestal sinks have OFP, but, some of the trendier, more artsy ones my not. Or, some of the older, cheaper ones too.
What's your objective? Are you or your friend hoping to sue someone?
I know what you're trying to do, and I really appreciate it, but it's just falling short. The Other Harry would have woven a little more into it. For instance, the sink getting stopped up and the faucet still running. That's good, it's a start, but you need to take it another step. Don't just leave us wondering "why would those two unlikely things occur?" make us think "OMFG! This guy can't be serious? Why would anyone do that???"
Again, don't take this the wrong way. I know I speak for many when I say I appreciate your attempts to revive those classic "The Other Harry" vanities, but it's a very high bar. Keep on trying though, I see potential.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Those little overflow drains won't keep up with a running faucet anyhow.
I think the key is 'don't leave the faucet running with the drain stopper in'.
It would have involved a pony.
Um, if the pipe is clogged, doesn't that mean that the overflow won't drain anyway?
This story does remind me of some of the shenanigans Art Donovan of the 1950's Baltimore Colts would relate. I like the one about turning on the shower and closing the glass shower door so that it filled about 6-7 feet up to the very top with water. No way to fix the problem without flooding everything out.
Another good one is to fill a trash can full of water and lean it up against someone's door before knocking...
I got dozens of 'em. I used to be really good at this kind of thing.
We made a hot tub out of our shower in college.... held about 20 people ;~D
Course it didn't stay very hot, but then we were all drinking so who'd notice?
The guys in our dorm graduated way beyond trash cans full of water... they stole a cow and put it in our bathroom.
Oh man.
We used to live in a highrise in (well, I don't want to give too much away about the exact location) let's just say downtown Philadelphia, in college, and 11 stories down was this alleyway that people would use to go between a parking lot and a restaurant in the front of the building.
Anyways, we'd get one of those big, 30 or so gallon trashcans and fill that baby up with water. We'd wait for someone to come walking down that alleyway, we had a spot marked and everything, and when they'd step on that mark, "BOMBS AWAY!!!"
The water would disperse enough that it wouldn't knock you down or anything, but you were good'n soaked!
In retrospect, that was really a jerk move, but college is college, eh?
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
the sink in my bathroom is a pedestal style. it doesn't have an overflow. It is very old though.
Now the cow is a great touch! There used to be a firework that you could attach to someone's car battery so that when they started their vehicle all sorts of smoke, popping, whistles, and sizzling would occur. Those were fun. You just had to make sure the car was unwatched and that the hood was accessable as they used to be compared to now.
Retrospect tends to take the fun out of a lot of stuff, doesn't it?
The really funny thing about the cow is, that she was put in the girl's bathroom on the second floor. She had a little rope necklace on with the address of her owner (a dairy) so that she could be safely returned.
Now, the thing we learned about cows after we led the thing from our bathroom and put her in the third floor ~guys~ bathroom, is that they will willingly walk ~up~ stairs, but they absolutely refuse to walk ~down~ them. The owner was called out to assist, and he was not pleased :~D
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