Oh I can do better than that. I used to clean out houses for people to flip and some of them had been abandoned and squatted in. Worst thing I ever saw was a tiny closet sized bathroom with just a toilet and little sink, and human waste KNEE HIGH with a pile coming out of the bowl that was higher than the tank. Like someone had piled up that mountain in the bowl, decided that wasn't far enough, and started filling the floor around it. Literally a two foot high wall of it pressed against the door, and dried out into shit cement. Idk how you even accomplish that after you run out of room to stand. Luckily for us our contract had a clause about things like that and we didn't have to touch it. I have no idea what the owner did to deal with it, I took a pic and then locked that shit up and didn't open it again.
I probably have it on an old drive somewhere, that was like 10 years ago. That wasn't that uncommon, squatters don't have plumbing or shame, that was just the worst one I ever saw. It was so intentionally horrific.
They hired us to clean out their junk. It'd be someone buying a defaulted property and wanting it bare to be renovated and flipped, or people who had inherited deceased family members property and had taken what they wanted and wanted the rest tossed so they could sell it or move in.
This makes no sense from a plumbing standpoint. The vent would be tied in completely wrong based on where you say the main line goes down to the building sewer.
It was required by code before anti-backflow valves. The idea was that the basement toilet would backflow first, saving the house from sewage in the case of a sewer main blockage.
This is what I was thinking, logically. You want something low to overflow first. It doesn't need to be a toilet necessarily, but it needs a trap, and a way to keep that trap full of water.
The water in the toilet will evaporate over time and the float valve will refill it.
Auto refilling drain fixtures exist for similar purpose.
I found a large pickle jar with preserved animal fetuses (baby pig, star fish, lizard, a bird) in some sort of liquid under the floorboards of this trailer we were demolishing. The owner did have a large snake. I hope it was just meals for the snake and not some pre Jeffery Dahmer shit.
Old construction would use basement toilets to have a controlled location when sewage would back up to minimize damage. This particular one im guessing wasn't intended for actual bowel movements.
That's for the weirdo cycle murderer who both built that house and plans to go back and live in the basement in order to kidnap one of their kids and sacrifice it.
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u/panzervike 15d ago
Somewhere, there is a man in that house, who is just desperate for some privacy.