Hi Everyone,
I have a plumbing problem that I am not knowledgeable enough to figure out. I have an older house, built in 1928. We are hooked up to city sewers. In the back of the house we have what I will call a catch basin (see photo 3). Inside our house we have a drain in the floor that years ago we used to put a standpipe into (see photo 1, I don’t know how else to describe it.). Near this drain is our washing machine and dryer. The washing machine drains into a laundry sink (see photo 2) and I guess this drains into the catch basin and then out to the city sewer. Well just a few days ago I noticed that a minute or so after the washing machine empties into the sink some water starts coming up from the drain in the floor (see photo 1. After it comes up the floor drain it just goes into the sump pump). This has never happened before. I went out and looked inside the catch basin and there was no build up of water in it. So my question is, what is happening and should I call a plumber or a roto-router guy? I don’t know how the sink and the floor drain are hooked up. I feel that there must be a clog in the pipes somewhere between the catch basin and the sink, floor drain combination. Can anyone explain this? Also, unless this is very easy like dumping Drano into the sink, I will have to call someone in to fix it. But whom do I call, the plumber or the roto-router guy.
Thanks, Pete