[Woody10]

I know nothing.

This is at the front of my house where the sewer comes in. It is obviously my sewer link.

I am building a bar over top of it and the water pipe is right next to it.

I want to put a bar sink in and drain into it.

Can I do that?

 

[ahrens]

Im going to guess that it is your sewer line cleanout. As for putting a drain into it not sure what local codes are I know some allow and some dont so you'll have to look it up or someone else on here might know depending on your location

 

[yuri]

I doubt if that is allowed. I have never seen it done. Cleanouts are just for running a large sewer snake down and you need lots of room for the snake and machine. All sinks and drains have to be P trapped and also vented thru the roof so they siphon and so sewer gas does not come out. Where I am we want a back check valve in the main line. If tree roots plug your main line or you have a backup from heavy rains or flooding raw sewage will come shooting out your bar sink. Need to talk to a professional plumber and find out the local codes and proper setup.

 

[Woody10]

From the more I am reading I believe you are right. I thought this picture is my clean out so this confused me. The pipe below is right below my bathroom etc and run parallel to the cap picture above.

It sucks because I have the water line right there to tap into.

 

[Dougtheplumber]

Yes you can use it, it will simply be another sewer stack in your house, but you need to leave a cleanout there that is the same size, just pipe it the same way as the other stack in your house, only you will use 1-1/2" pipe for the stack instead of 3". It will still need a TY taken off the stack, a p-trap for the sink and a vent off the top of the TY that will be connected into the venting system above the flood level of the highest fixture on the system drain. The only reason you have a cleanout there is code states that your main stack, which looks to be the one under you bathroom, must be within 5' of the wall where the sewer enters you house, if it is more than 5', you require a main cleanout like the one you want to use as a drain. You may have some difficulty connecting to this pipe as it is old school lead and oakum and the hub of the pipe is just showing at concrete level. You must either caulk a new adapter into the hub(after the removal of the cleanout) or chip up the concrete and cut the cast below the bell of the cast iron, not a whole lot of option that I know of if you want to stay in code.