Filling In A Floor Drain

Adjustable floor drain set with round top nickel bronze.

Filling in a floor drain.

Keep water seal in your floor drains from drying out with a thin layer of cooking oil. It ll keep foul odors out of your house. Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse. By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine.

And then stuff rockwool insulation in it and fill it up with hydraulic cement. Removal of commercial coin washer machines and making the drains into a floor drain. No hub cast iron nickel bronze floor drain. Jones stephens 4 x 2 in.

Owner wants drain plugged permanently. Inside caulk plastic floor drain. If you put too much hydraulic cement in it it may get into the main building drain that is why you stuff rockwool into. Ci is rotted away to about 2 below surface.

Smith sani ceptor 3 in. Fill the p trap with water. Has ci floor drain in slab. Floor will be covered in vct.

Many basement floor drains tie directly to the home s sewer system but in some communities local building codes require floor drains to run to a sump pit where a pump lifts the water to the exterior surface of the house. Floor drains are most often installed during original construction often in the utility area to drain away excess water in the basement. Sioux chief finishline 3 4 in. Then pour a thin layer of cooking oil onto the water to keep the water from evaporating.

Add cooking oil to floor drains.