How To Snake A Garage Floor Drain

There are 2 types of garage floor drains a standard square or round drain and a trench or channel drain.

How to snake a garage floor drain.

With so much unmentionable gunk flowing down the drain it s no wonder it can easily become clogged. Ask the maintenance man how to use a drain snake. If your garage drain is backing up use this guide to help get things flowing smoothly again. I have a floor drain in the garage and not all of the water is draining.

Pour a half gallon of hot water down the drain to wash away any residue left over from the clog. The u shaped pipe under the drain created a water seal but. We vacuumed up about 5 or 6 gallons of water with our wet shop vac the rest of the water went down the floor drain. These type of drains can be of minimum 6 inches to maximum about 1 foot in size.

The plumber inserted a 45 foot snake eel in a higher point in the sewer pipe higher above the floor drain found cleared out the blockage. Garage floor drains get a lot of abuse from dog hair to snow runoff to oil. The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. The water was clear no smell.

Use the rags to clean up the floor around the drain. Ask the maintenance man how to use a drain snake. Sewer pipe is draining properly now. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter.

If home remedies don t work to clean out a clogged floor drain rent a plumbing snake from a plumbing supply shop and break up the clog the way the professionals do it. The floor drains in older homes were piped in almost all cases with a simple p trap just like you might find under your bathroom sink. A metal grate is set over the drain entry hole and the garage floor around the drain slopes into the drain area. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology.