How Do You Unclog A Basement Floor Drain?
There’s nothing worse than finding your basement floor drain has clogged and there’s water everywhere. You can usually take care of the problem yourself without calling a plumber. Try the following steps to clear that clog. Put your gloves on and use your bucket to remove any standing water to access the floor drain. Since the basement floor drain is usually the final stop for all pipes leading out of the house, tell family members not to run any water until the drain is unclogged. Since they are the closest to the street water drains, basement floor drains and pipes are usually the largest drains in the house. They also usually have a clean out access port, which makes using a plumber’s snake much easier, since most floor drains also make a sharp bend from vertical to horizontal soon after floor level. Getting the snake to make that bend is not always an easy procedure. Use the crescent wrench to remove the clean out plug. Pull out a few feet of snake. Insert the snake into the drain
