Floor Sink Drain Installation

If you were to terminate an in direct waste to an open site drain that was also used as a floor drain that drain could easily become clogged with dirt and trash.

Floor sink drain installation.

Insert the bottom of the drain into the open drain hole. You ll need to disconnect the drain pipe and remove the existing strainer if you haven t already. Make sure the drain is perfectly flush with the bottom surface of the sink before you continue. To install a kitchen sink drain you ll need a drain assembly kit that fits your sink pliers a basket wrench plumber s putty and a brass tailpiece to attach the basket strainer to the main drainpipe.

Smith manufactures a full line of floor drains and devices that are easy to install and cost effective including variations for heavy duty drains with adjustable strainer heads special purpose drains traffic drains planting area drains trap seal primers devices and more to suit any construction need. A floor sink is a receptacle usually square. If you are in an older home where they are shared you could do it but you will have to excavate the floor and make the connection sub slab with rigid connections and not flexible hose or pipe. The floor drain will be connected to your storm sewer.

Set the new drain into place inside the sink basin. A sink needs to be connected to your sanitary sewer. Consider this a supplemental video to all the professional plumber videos that are available in which they don t really tell you everything to think about be.