I have a floor drain in my boiler room. It appears to feed to a 2" santee on its back. One side is capped with a rubber fernco. And its outfitted with a strange drain restrictive drain hole. (I have the grate somewhere).
I was doing some work which required me to cut the slab open. (Tie in a rain gutter off broken clay pipe and replace an underground wet return for steam boiler). So there is no-ptrap on this floor drain. Since I have a double trap on my sewer line, sewer smells don't appear to be coming to the boiler room.
The drain works fine. I've shoved a garden hose down there on full blast and it drains fine. The restrictive floor drain does slow things down.
But since I have the slab open, it seems criminal not to cut open a little more and plumb this properly. Maybe there's not enough room b/w the 4" pvc mainline for a p-trap, street 45, and a 4x4x2 wye. I'd have to dig to figure it out. At the very least I should replace the floor drain.
What do you guys think?
I was doing some work which required me to cut the slab open. (Tie in a rain gutter off broken clay pipe and replace an underground wet return for steam boiler). So there is no-ptrap on this floor drain. Since I have a double trap on my sewer line, sewer smells don't appear to be coming to the boiler room.
The drain works fine. I've shoved a garden hose down there on full blast and it drains fine. The restrictive floor drain does slow things down.
But since I have the slab open, it seems criminal not to cut open a little more and plumb this properly. Maybe there's not enough room b/w the 4" pvc mainline for a p-trap, street 45, and a 4x4x2 wye. I'd have to dig to figure it out. At the very least I should replace the floor drain.
What do you guys think?
