Bathroom Floor Drain Installation

The drain body has a floor level cleanout opening and may be supplied with such optional.

Bathroom floor drain installation. Failure to achieve adequate slope will result in standing water problems. Measure mark and drill holes for drain and supply pipes. Integral trap floor drain one of the most practical floor drains to be developed is a floor drain with an integral deep seal trap and no hub side outlet connection. If the new bathroom is on the second floor the bathroom s main drain will have to travel through the wall on the first floor and down to the basement or crawlspace.

Does your sink have a pop up drain. Always follow the manufacturer s directions for installing a bathroom vanity. Find a location for the floor drain. This feature is simply an elbow in the drain pipe that fills with water.

If a drain line is nearby you may choose to run a pipe to it rather than running a new line. Level the vanity and shim at the floor if necessary. Most floor drains are designed with a feature called a p trap because it is shaped roughly like the letter p turned on its side. This drain is ideal for use in floor areas built on grade where the sewer line is shallow.

If your laundry room floor slopes to a central point that is the logical place to place the drain. Some vanities will come with pre drilled holes for easier installation. In the room below the installation the drain lines turn outward at 45 degree. Learn how to replace it.

This is the same problem as putting a floor drain under a washing machine. If the floor is flat and level you may choose to locate the drain in a certain spot with the expectation that later on you will create a sloped floor. If you can t let it drain to daylight then you have to dump it into your sanitary drainage system and you have sewer gas so you have to install a trap and it has to be vented and the trap has to stay wet or it will dry out from evaporation and then the trap doesn t work and you have sewer gas in your bathroom. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink.