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Your Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking and process in modeling:

My model is a residential house and likewise has typical bathrooms. However, unlike many houses, I converted the downstairs bathroom from the typical powder room to a full service bathroom, just like the other three, that will provide an operational sink, toilet, shower, and bathtub. My design is as follows.

• your plumbing system elements

As is common in houses, I utilized a 4” pipe as the main branch to remove all sanitary elements from the house. The sub-branches included 3” pipe from the toilets, 2” pipe from the dishwasher, 1 1/2” pipe from the kitchen sink, 1 1/4” pipe from the bathroom sinks, 2” pipe from the showers, and 1 1/2” pipe form the bathtubs all connect into the 4” translator pipe. Hot and cold domestic water lines are 3/4”. I decided to utilize the piping shown below for sanitary, hot water, and cold water, respectively.

• your piping systems

You may see a pipe extending to nowhere in the bottom left corner of the first photo below. This is not an accident, but the route out of the house connecting to the municipal sewer main line.

• any special plumbing system challenges that you encountered and how you overcame them

Spacial challenges were encountered while laying the plumbing lines and automatically connecting elements together on a sloped incline. The only other challenges was to run the piping through the unusual floor format of my building which required various elevation, floor plan, and 3D view planes to make it all work. Since the vents also run along the ceiling for the floor above it, required some transitional lines to be a little lower than anticipated. I ran the piping systems in the wall to move between floors annd extend mostly. Some areas incorporate exposed piping. This goes with the general atmosphere of an open environment like the ceilings.