I have a hole in the basement floor. It’s a very nice hole. However, I’m pretty sure there is no trap in the slab for this hole.
I can see water maybe 24″ – 36″ down.
When the home was built there was a drain installed for a toilet, so I thought maybe this other drain was meant for a sink or shower.
Here is my question – is there any way to install a shower base over this drain that would allow for a trap? Perhaps a raised base?
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Sounds rather like a sump hole...
You have a HOLE in the slab or you have a pipe in the slab.
What is it made up of? What is the size? How far does it stick out of the slab?
The real question is what is the water? If it is tied to the sewer system then either it is a trap or you have a screwed up system.
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Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
The "hole" is 3" iron pipe that terminates in a "T" approximately 24" below the slab. It doesn't protrude from the slab at all. The hole is not centered in the basement, and it is located approximately 48" away from a cast toilet drain. It appears as though there was a drain cap over the hole at some point in the past. The house is a circa 1950's duplex.After looking into it a little further, I don't think it is tied to the sewage system. The smell I thought was coming from this drain pipe was actually seeping from the toilet drain a few feet away.I can always see just the slightest bit of movement in the water at the bottom of the pipe.The basement floor is sloped towards this drain. In the past, a washing machine was drained directly into this pipe/hole.So I guess now my questions are - can I drain a shower and sink into this pipe? Is there any way to tell if this pipe is connected to the sewer? I know vague questions get vague answers so I'm not expecting miracles ;-)
>The basement floor is sloped towards this drain. In the past, a washing machine was drained directly into this pipe/hole.<
Sounds like a typical floor drain to me. One may assume that it continues below slab to your sanitary main.
Something that old it is really hard to tell what it is.It might connect to the sanitary system. It mgith have gone to a storm sewer system. It might be a gray water drain and go to daylight. It might have gone to a drywell in the yard.There are ways to determine what it connects to. One open up clean outs on the sanitary sewer and put a die into and see if the dye shows up in the sewer connection.Another is to use a smoke bomb. Then look and see where smoke starts coming out. Cities use that all the time to see if gutters have been connected to sanitary sewers.With it being metal I am guessing that it could be tracked with the locator equipment.One thing that you can do is to check the direction of the pipe and see which way it goes. Then take a snake or fish tape and run it both ways and see how far it goes before hitting a turn..
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Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
O.K. Bill I have to bite, what does your proposed tag line mean? what am I missing? Too subtle.
I have added a word that I hope will make it clearer.Let me see how I can word this. Sometime I come across questions where I see something "special" in them and my resposne is not always the most "reverent"..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
I did think of a-holes but I could not think where that applied to you. I've been reading your posts for a long time and most are on the money. I know that you can modify your proposed tag to where it comes out as a semi-sarcastic signature. Waiting to see what you come up with. "May the force be with you"