alt Hacker NewsIm not sure about bathtubs, but in the U.S. it's apparently legal to sell lavatory sinks without an overflow. Ask me how I know.
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craftkiller • today at 5:20 PM
My last apartment had the overflow drain hole but it wasn't attached to anything. The water just went directly into the wooden cabinet underneath. Madness. Literally worse than not having the hole because it reduced the capacity of the sink. This is what happens when landlords who DGAF hire handymen who DGAF to do all the work on their units.
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This puzzled me and I looked it up, and yes, sinks without overflow meet code [1] (but not tubs). So your situation was apparently legal.
But the sibling comment to this one, where a sink had an overflow, but it was not connected, did not meet code [also 1].
Go figure. There must be some reasoning there, but I'm confused as to what it is.
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