Floor Drain Repair

I fixed my basement floor drain.

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• Floor
• drain
• repair
• sewage
• poop
• turd
• turds
• shit
• stink
• sewer

[astroid911]

about how much money did you spend and about how long did it take you to finish. Thanks for posting

[rhomis]

I spent probably about $60.00 in cement, pipe, fittings, glue, etc.

It took me about 3 or 4 days (dang, I can't remember) to do, only because I was too busy doing other things, and I had to wait for the concrete to cure.

So about 8 hours of work by myself, which includes coffeee breaks and running to Home Depot.

[eiriz123]

thanks for posting this video its great to see what is below

that mysterious basement drain, people get raked over the coal for lack of knowledge now people can see the process.

[rhomis]

Yeah, my house is 109 years old, and with all of the updates and repairs needed, I'd be broke if I didn't do it myself.

[christoclaster]

How did you break up the concrete?

[rhomis]

Sledge Hammer and a large $60.00 "Harbor Freight "hammer drill.

Basically, the floor was poorly made with very thin concrete.

[bladder1010]

Thanks for posting this. I've got a 62 yr. old house with similar problems.  Now I know what to do.

[salemetro]

Thanks for taking the mystery out of this kind of job! Just curious...why did you use a 3 inch pvc patch section, instead of 4 inch? The reason I ask, is that it seems to me that it might be more prone to "building up" junk in the joint where the clay pipe "steps down" to the pvc pipe. Just curious.

[CTOL1]

I am in the same situation, I believe the joint failed somewhere past the drain on the way to the clean out as there is no other connection between these points. If there is a lot of water use,

G the sewer will back up, but little water moving past the clean out that is in the basement near the wall on the way to the lateral. A hammer drill and sledge is the way to go as the dust from a saw would be unreal. Good winter project here in the Midwest, LOL

Great job thanks for the video!

[rhomis]

It is there to prevent your basement from flooding, such as a broken pipe, overflowing laundry tub, a cracked hot-water tank, heavy rain laeking through the foundation, or even a leaking boiler.

My video doesn't show the original drain in place, because I didn't decide to tape it until I realized that it would be something neat to put on YouTube.