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Plugging the basement floor drain. Customer mentioned the water problem in the basement and we walked down to look. Two floor drains just a few feet from each other. When there are heavy rains the water backs up the floor drains. This is an area where the storm and sanitary sewers are not sewerS but just a sewer, so the back up is rather ...
Attach the opposite end of the washer hoses to the valves in the washer box 2. Be sure to keep hot to hot and cold to cold when you attach the hose ends to the valves in the box. Then insert the end of the washer drain hose into the drainpipe of the washer box 3. Turn the water on, and check for leaks.
If not, you could rent a drain snake thingy and try to clear it yourself if you were inclined to. It could just be clogged with dirt. You could also hire a plumber to do it for you. A plumber may have a tracer he can hook to the eel and trace where the drain line goes. AVD |May 01, 2009 03:48pm| #3.
The vent portions may be 11⁄2-in. pipe, but the drain sections must be 2 in. in diameter, and drain sections must slope downward at least 1⁄4 in. per ft. Air-admittance valves (AAV) are one-way mechanical vents designed to eliminate the need for conventional branch vents for fixtures too far from a wall. As water drains from a sink, it ...
The floor drain in the basement was connected to the sanitary waste, however, on the same property, the downspouts and weeping tile were connected to a seperate storm drain. To my suprise, the pipe under the slab was iron, and in very good condition after 50 years. Must be the hard water and limestone soil.
Keep the drain below the level of the slab. To GBA Senior Editor Martin Holladay, the correct location for the foundation drain is a pretty simple proposition: If you want to avoid problems, keep the level of the drain below the slab. “One thing is for sure,” he writes, “if the center of the 4-inch drain pipe is above the top of your slab ...
Here they use busted up quahog shells. George. rjw | Aug 31, 2009 10:16pm | #11. 10' + downspouts first (get the water well past the overdig area around the foundation. Grading second. If the walls are already painted, don't bother with dry lock - it needs to go on clean, unpainted block, per the instructions.
This drain carries waste from bathroom sinks that are 8 feet way but have 14 feet of 2″ cast iron pipe before reaching the stack.. The rust buildup is approximately 12.5 feet from a cleanout located in the 2″ line at the point it connects to lead pipes that accend to the above bathrooms. This drain system has been troublesome for over 40 ...
I am thinking about buying a tiny1920 one story house that needs a lot of work, but I realized it does not have a drain in the basement floor. The washing machine drains into a pump that takes it up to the waste line that is about 5ft off the basement floor. The basement was partialty finished in the 70’s and it does not look like there has ...
Maintain a minimum slope of 1⁄4 in. per ft., and support drains at least every 4 ft. Dry-fit all pieces, and use a grease pencil to make alignment marks on pipes and fittings. Other fixture drains. Run the 1 1⁄4-in., 1 1⁄2-in., and 2-in. fixture drains up from the main drain takeoff.