Can you move a waste pipe inside a wall near outlets?
Relocating a waste pipe connected to a macerator pump inside a stud wall requires careful management of both structural framing and proximity to electrical sockets and dryer vents. Squeezing pipes into tight wall cavities often creates conflicts with studs, plug sockets, and exhaust ports, making safe alignment difficult.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using a long, kinked flex pipe behind the laundry unit
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The waste pipe is connected to our macerator pump in the basement. We had hoped to hide the pipes behind the wall and then they exit to connect to the pump. Also is it ok to be so close to plug sockets.”source ↗
“The contractor installed this vent pipe backwards and way too close to the laundry room right side wall.”source ↗
“I want to reposition it so a dryer exhaust port will almost perfectly align with the wall vent.”source ↗
“Ya its current location sucks. I'd like to move it to the left where the stud is”source ↗
Where this came up
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