Kitchen Floor Drain

Immediately beneath a sink bathtub or other plumbing fixture the fixture drain opening leads to a curved segment of pipe known as the p trap which is normally a 1 1 4 to 2 inch diameter segment of pipe with a sharp curved bend in it shaped like the letter p.

Kitchen floor drain.

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Place these commercial floor troughs beneath steam equipment for convenient end of day draining or use them in any other operation that requires employees to handle. Maintain safe floor conditions and working areas by installing these floor troughs in your kitchen. Imho the reason floor drains are not often used in residential kitchens is that unless the floor is adequately sloped to the drain it can be more difficult to get water into it than to put it into a bucket by wringing out a mop and few people want their kitchen floor to be sloped or pay for the cost of it. Most floor drains however will be connected to pipes carrying wastewater and sewage away from the house.

When this is the case the drain will have a trap somewhere nearby along the line. The purpose of this drain trap is to hold standing water which seals the drain system and prevents sewer gases from. In sinks showers and tubs the trap is just underneath but floor drains may flow horizontally some distance before meeting the gas trap.