Drains in the basement floor are often forgotten and neglected until water begins to gurgle back up instead of flowing out as it should.
The floor of my basement is backing up.
That is because most floor drains rarely take in any water the usual problem is the opposite.
So your basement floor drain is backing up and flooding.
That is to say the drain and trap dry out then let in sewer gases.
The cure for that is simply dumping some clean water into the drain to refill the trap.
A floor drain back up in your basement is almost never due to the floor drain.
That s because as the lowest drain in your home the floor drain will be the first place that wastewater can go when it can t flow to the main drain and sewer line.
This happens because of the waste produced in your home or waste from the public sewer system.
Clogs in any of your home s drain lines can cause backups in your basement floor drain.
There s water in the basement.
First you need to determine if it is local waste produced in your home that can t get out due to a blockage in the main line leaving your home or if it is waste from the sewer system coming back in called a backflow.
A basement drain backing up is also one the most difficult clogs to diagnose as water seeks the lowest level to escape.
That water can back up into the house in a flooding rain because the city sewer is overwhelmed.