Change in directions with IPC 2018

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Change in directions with IPC 2018

Author: Mercenarycor (TX)

I feel like the stupidest contractor ever.

I used to do work pre-Army, I just got out literally 2 days ago, and am working on a commercial renovation, and I feel like I've never read a code before. I don't know if the feeling like the International codes have tripled their words while somehow reducing their meaning by half is shared, but holy crap.

My todays problem is the chart in the 2018 IPC for changes in direction. (https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPC2018P3/chapter-7-sanitary-drainage#IPC2018P3_Ch07_Sec706)

I have to be reading this wrong. Pretty much everything is X'd. Does this really say the only way to change direction on a 6" is a sanitary tee unless you're trying to go horizontal to vertical, in which case...just don't. Please tell me the X's are good, and the lines are bad, cause otherwise this makes no possible sense.

-Worst Contractor Ever

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Re: Change in directions with IPC 2018
Author: steve (CA) Xs are good.
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Re: Change in directions with IPC 2018
Author: Mercenarycor (TX) Thank goodness. Then what's the deal with short sweep vertical to horizontal. It has 2 notes on it, one says only permitted 2" and smaller, the other says only 3" and larger.
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Re: Change in directions with IPC 2018
Author: DaveMill (CA) >I used to do work pre-Army, I just got out literally 2 days ago Thank you for your service!
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