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MasterPlumbers
Hello,
I’m working on finishing my basement. I’m putting a bathroom down there, and there are rough in’s for me to do so. However, I opened the cap to where the toilet rough in is, and there is sitting water. I tried pouring some water into the pipe, to see if it would go down, and it’s not. The roughin is in cement. With a slim metal object, I poked around and could not feel an opening. Do you have any ideas as to what I need to do to install my toilet? My next step is going to be draining it, but, I’m not going to be sure what to do next. Any help would be appreciated!Thanks!
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I presume you mean thatthere is standing water in the closet bend that is buried in the cement slab.
You are correct in assuming that it should be free of water. There are only two explanations. 1) There is a blockage in the drain; and/or 2) the drain is not properly sloped.
Try snaking the drain to clear a blockage. If that doesn’t work, you have a major problem: an improperly laid drain pipe that must be dug up and relaid. I would hope that whoever laid the drain in your basement took account of the available altitudes and provided the proper slopes in his pipe runs. One big problem with basement drain plumbs, especially in add-on work, is a building sewer that is too high to accept drainage from below-the-slab waste pipes in the basement. If that is your case, and you want your basement toilet, you have two options. You can install a toilet pump system that pumps waste uphill and thence into the building sewer. These units are expense to buy and run (use electricity). Or you can escavate your entire building sewer (ouside the foundation), set it lower, and reconnect everything so you will have a gravity waste system. This is also an expensive proposition, and may not even be possible unless there is sufficient altitude to work with in connecting the new building sewer to the municipal sewer out in the street…
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