Laundry room plumbing: A recessed PVC floor drain

The building code in my expanse calls for a floor bleed in the laundry room.

The laundry room in my business firm is on a standard wooden floor to a higher place the clamber space, not on concrete. So here's the problem. The only floor drain you lot can buy is for affluent mounting to the floor. And when the water softener and furnace condensate drain lines flow into the bleed, in that location will invariably be water running onto, and ruining, the finished floor. It'll also seep under the bleed and eventually rot out the subfloor underneath the finished floor.

I invented a solution—a recessed bleed using standard PVC plumbing fittings—merely in an unconventional way.

Start I traced around the iv-in. sewer and drain adapter and cutting out the opening, just a little larger than the fitting. Then I glued it to the sides of the opening, affluent to the floor with structure adhesive. (Wedges fabricated from small shims held it in place while the glue dried.) Then I glued on a iv-in. coupling and and so a 2-in. reducer and slipped in the ii-in. PVC piping to claw it up to the trap downwards in the crawl space. The 2-in. flooring drain just drops into the opening; in that location'due south no need to glue it because the whole contraption is sealed perfectly. At present the drain lines period into the deep recess, so at that place'southward no demand to worry about errant water wrecking the flooring. It works perfectly.

— Travis Larson, Senior Editor

For some nuts on working with PVC pipe, check out:

• Alter a Floor Drain to Prevent Flooding
• Tricks for Splicing Plastic Drain Pipage
• How to Connect a PVC Pipage to ABS Pipe

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