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OK, but the only clogged pipe is the one floor drain - which when snaked with a small motorized snake hit mud and roots about five feet in. All other drainage in the house, sinks, toilets, etc. is...

Thanks, Tom. Glad to provide a little "blast from the past":D Coupla more questions then:

- why do you say the floor drains *are* connected to the sewer? Wouldn't we regularly get an awful smell...

Have any of you ever seen a floor drain that doesn't have a trap in it?

In our house half the basement is finished and the other half unfinished, both have floor drains in lowest part of the room....