Do Floor Drains Run To Septic

To me these lines should have never have been run to the septic.

Do floor drains run to septic.

You absolutely do not want to put the floor drains foundation water or gutter rain water into the septic system. An ejector pump failure caused our floor drains back up and floods the basement. Septic safe drain clog remover systems like carefree septic treatment are designed to eat away grease hair paper food soap scum and other organic matter that typically cause build up on drain. The waste pipe must maintain a minimum 1 4 inch per foot slope at every point along its path to the septic tank.

It will wash the waste of the septic system out into the drain field and plug it. Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse. Many basement floor drains tie directly to the home s sewer system but in some communities local building codes require floor drains to run to a sump pit where a pump lifts the water to the exterior surface of the house. I recently learned that our basement floor drains are connected to our septic tank lateral field.

Are you sure that you do not have a cistern for collection of water to be used for watering the grass etc. Similarly the vent pipe must maintain the same minimum slope toward the toilet drain. A real bozo no no.