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Retired Farmer 12-27-2012 18:57:07 207.200.116.12 Report to Moderator	Why do you have a drain in the floor in the first place? [Reply]   [No Email]
Wade1984 12-27-2012 19:05:07 24.162.137.85 Report to Moderator	Re: Shop floor drain goes dry in reply to Retired Farmer, 12-27-2012 18:57:07   Use some vegetable oil to form a layer on top to keep evaporation down. [Reply]  [No Email]
504 12-27-2012 20:44:17 199.127.54.155 Report to Moderator	Re: Shop floor drain goes dry in reply to Wade1984, 12-27-2012 19:05:07   I know it is too late now, but my floor drains all drain out to the downspout tiles on the house. I have no sewer connections to my floor drains. [Reply]  [No Email]
PJH 12-27-2012 21:31:51 50.40.225.246 Report to Moderator	Re: Shop floor drain goes dry in reply to 504, 12-27-2012 20:44:17   You know - I've heard of running the floor drains to the downspout drains, but I always wondered about getting an obstruction downstream and then having it all back up during a hard rain. A roof handles a lot of water. Am I missing something obvious? How would you keep that roof water from backing into your building? As to the original poster - there's got to be a leak in your trap for it to dry up that fast. I know of a church addition that developed a leak in one of the waterlines under the men's bathroom. It was seeping up through a small crack in the concrete floor, and suddenly one Sunday the floor was completely dry. Upon close investigation I discovered a small hole had been drilled in the floor drain trap, allowing the seepage to go directly into the trap instead of coming up into the building first. A brilliant idea, I thought, but after we fixed the waterline leak, we had a perpetually dry floor drain trap because of that hole. I finally managed to get a sheet metal screw in the hole, but it was a bugger, and it still seemed to dry out quicker than the trap in the ladie's room. Thank God for those extendable magnets or I'd have filled the trap with dropped screws. [Reply]  [No Email]