Washer Floor Drain Flood?

peterjames

My washing machine empties into a laundry tub. Then it goes in to the vertical stack. After that it goes down the horizontal pipe in the basement concrete. The problem is, it floods the floor drain. But once all the water is out of the laundry tub, it soon seeps back into the floor drain it flooded.
1. How can I prevent the flood in the first place?
2. Can I cap it off with an abs pipe and cap?
3. Can I just over the drain with hydraulic cement and not have an overflow? (I know that sounds drastic.)

Wolfgang

Try running a plumbers snake thru the floor drain pipe. Mine did the same thing, come to find out the year I bought the house they had hooked up to city sewer and whoever did it had packed some sort of garbage in it. Pulled a whole wad out and now it works fine.

Anti-wingnut

This seems like a question a licensed plumber would already know the answer to

KillerToiletSpider

A licensed plumber would know.

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