What is the purpose of a clean out drain?

Why should you have a clean out drain? Clean out drains allow easy access to evaluate a plumbing problem before taking more serious steps. With access to a cleanout drain, you can prevent more severe plumbing problems like needing to take apart your toilet.

What is a cleanout drain?

Cleanouts provide direct clearing and inspection access to your underground sewer line in the event you have a sewer blockage. If you have one or more cleanouts they are normally located outside of your home in the front or back yard or can be at the side of the house outside a bathroom, kitchen, or laundry.

Can I drain my sink outside?

You can tie your outdoor kitchen plumbing to your home’s waste water system—which will allow you to use a garbage disposal. You can have the water drain into a French drain or dry well—which is convenient, but you won’t be able to rinse food down your drain because it will stink up your yard as it rots away.

How deep is a clean out drain?

They can be as shallow as 12″ to 30,” or as deep as 6+ ft. Often times this is simply a matter of climate. In really cold climates, the pipe is buried deeper to prevent the pipe from freezing solid in winter. Every now and then you will run into a sewer line that is buried deep even in a warm climate.

What kind of drain do you need for an outdoor kitchen sink?

There are basically 4 types of plumbing for an outdoor kitchen sink: an under-counter bucket, dry well (very often called a french drain), self-contained lift station, and by drain hooked into a sewer/ septic system. To avoid throwing money down the drain, it’s necessary to pick an option at the very beginning and stick to it.

How does a main drain clean out fitting work?

How a Main Clean-out Fitting Works The main sewer line is a large-diameter pipe that pipe that carries waste from every sink, toilet, and shower in your home, through branch drains that connect into it. When it gets clogged, every fixture in your home is affected, so it is a problem that just can’t wait.

Where is the main drain clean out plug located?

In most cases, the main clean-out will be located at some point along this line from floor drain to street. In some instances, the clean-out fitting will be flush-mounted in the floor, but it may also be a raised stub-out pipe. Either way, there is usually a square lug in the center of a plug, used to twist the plug with a pipe wrench.

What to do when your outdoor drain is clogged?

A cable attached to the machine and then fed into the pipe which breaks up the mud by spinning through the pipe. Then flush the line to clear out any remaining debris. With mud, you need a pretty hefty cable, either a half inch or ¾ inch.

What’s the best way to drain an outdoor sink?

Decide on drainage. Outdoor sinks can drain a few different ways: into a home’s plumbing system, into a bucket below the sink or through a hose that drains into the landscape.

Where is the outside drain clean out located?

An outside drain clean out is located anywhere form the outside of your house, to where your main sewer line connects to public sewer system. In a typical building layout, the clean out access appears at ground level on the edge of property line. In other words, this part of the plumbing installation is a homeowner’s responsibility to maintain.