There's a floor drain in a weird place in my basement. It's right at an exterior wall, in a room where there is no other plumbing, and no real reason to have a floor drain. The floor isnt' even sloped to it. Every month or so, I notice that the basement smells of sewer gas, and dump some water down it to reprime the trap. (Some time, I'll get some mineral oil, and add that after the water...) There's a pipe running down the wall, which ends six inches or so above the floor drain, and a scraped out bit on the floor for the two or three inches between the wall and the drain, so that water from that pipe could reach the floor drain. I just realized the purpose of the pipe, and probably the drain, is (was) to drain the ice box that is located directly above the wall (openings on both sides of the wall, one for the ice man outside, one inside for the home owner.). Duh.
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6 years ago