The Floor Of My Basement Is Backing Up

That is to say the drain and trap dry out then let in sewer gases.

The floor of my basement is backing up.

Clogs in any of your home s drain lines can cause backups in your basement floor drain. If you are experiencing basement floor drain backing up that means that the house drain under the basement floor drain is full of water. Therefore the source of the clog may is usually not the basement floor drain itself. A floor drain back up in your basement is almost never due to the floor drain.

And while it is commonly held that a sewer drain backs up largely because there is a blockage or break in the sewer line some homes have floor drains attached to the storm sewer system. The cure for that is simply dumping some clean water into the drain to refill the trap. A basement drain backing up is also one the most difficult clogs to diagnose as water seeks the lowest level to escape. Drains in the basement floor are often forgotten and neglected until water begins to gurgle back up instead of flowing out as it should.

First you need to determine if it is local waste produced in your home that can t get out due to a blockage in the main line leaving your home or if it is waste from the sewer system coming back in called a backflow. This happens because of the waste produced in your home or waste from the public sewer system. That water can back up into the house in a flooding rain because the city sewer is overwhelmed. That is because most floor drains rarely take in any water the usual problem is the opposite.