After reading nearly every thread i could find on google and nothing being similar to my problem i'm starting my own. So here goes.
History:
A few weeks ago during the first heavy rain of the year my floor drain backed up for the first time in two or three. Water leaks through the foundation next to the floor drain and the drain its self had some piles of junk sitting next to it that managed to work their way over the drain. The water was clear. I assumed something had gotten down the drain. I went to menards got a 25' hand auger and ran it down the drain. eventually the water went down to about the level of the rim of the drain. But when any water in the house was ran it would temporarily rise back up above the rim. some times sewage would be involved sometimes not. I got one of those steel rods and couldn't get it through the floor drain so i ran it through the stack. No help. I got a commercial auger. One of those big suckers it ran me 375, 75' long. I have ran it and pulled a 1.5 lbs clog out and a 1 lbs clog out as well as several smaller ones. Clogs were all hair/crud stuff flushed down the toilet. The last big one I pulled had some fine tree roots mixed into it, so I swallowed my pride and called a drain cleaner. He came out and pulled another couple of pounds of roots and tampons (which is weird because no females have lived here in over 2 years). Then allegedly hit something and wanted me to call his buddy the escivator in to punch a hole. He was supposed to come back to camera my line but dropped off the grid and hasn't even asked me for money, which is good because he did a hack job messing with my stack and rotating the access point so he could access it easier and come to find out he's not a licensed plumber. His buddy the escivator came out and just wanted to start digging holes based on his professional experience and hope he found the sewer. In the mean time I've installed a backflow valve and I can operate as before minus the use of the floor drain. But this is a nagging problem in the back of my mind and I an curious why the water level would always want to be approx. the rim of the floor drain. If i poor water strait at the drain it will raise a bit and return. If i run a garden hose into the stack it does the same thing.
Considerations:
1 one month before this started the city did some work on the water main in front of my house, the house was build in 1911 when as i understand they ran everything in one trench.
2 one month before that, i laid some ceramic tile and cleaned the wet saw out several times in the utility sink, possibly leading to sediment in a trap?
anyone who has any ideas as to what would be going on here would be apriciated. This isn't an eminent problem for me any more, im ok with the back flow plug, but is more of a riddle that boggles me. It's as if the water table has risen to a natural level which is my floor drain. (I live at the top of a hill)
Thanks
History:
A few weeks ago during the first heavy rain of the year my floor drain backed up for the first time in two or three. Water leaks through the foundation next to the floor drain and the drain its self had some piles of junk sitting next to it that managed to work their way over the drain. The water was clear. I assumed something had gotten down the drain. I went to menards got a 25' hand auger and ran it down the drain. eventually the water went down to about the level of the rim of the drain. But when any water in the house was ran it would temporarily rise back up above the rim. some times sewage would be involved sometimes not. I got one of those steel rods and couldn't get it through the floor drain so i ran it through the stack. No help. I got a commercial auger. One of those big suckers it ran me 375, 75' long. I have ran it and pulled a 1.5 lbs clog out and a 1 lbs clog out as well as several smaller ones. Clogs were all hair/crud stuff flushed down the toilet. The last big one I pulled had some fine tree roots mixed into it, so I swallowed my pride and called a drain cleaner. He came out and pulled another couple of pounds of roots and tampons (which is weird because no females have lived here in over 2 years). Then allegedly hit something and wanted me to call his buddy the escivator in to punch a hole. He was supposed to come back to camera my line but dropped off the grid and hasn't even asked me for money, which is good because he did a hack job messing with my stack and rotating the access point so he could access it easier and come to find out he's not a licensed plumber. His buddy the escivator came out and just wanted to start digging holes based on his professional experience and hope he found the sewer. In the mean time I've installed a backflow valve and I can operate as before minus the use of the floor drain. But this is a nagging problem in the back of my mind and I an curious why the water level would always want to be approx. the rim of the floor drain. If i poor water strait at the drain it will raise a bit and return. If i run a garden hose into the stack it does the same thing.
Considerations:
1 one month before this started the city did some work on the water main in front of my house, the house was build in 1911 when as i understand they ran everything in one trench.
2 one month before that, i laid some ceramic tile and cleaned the wet saw out several times in the utility sink, possibly leading to sediment in a trap?
anyone who has any ideas as to what would be going on here would be apriciated. This isn't an eminent problem for me any more, im ok with the back flow plug, but is more of a riddle that boggles me. It's as if the water table has risen to a natural level which is my floor drain. (I live at the top of a hill)
Thanks