Floor Drain Archeology

The washing machine backed up which caused me to inspect the floor drain in the basement.

The strainer or cover was rusted through. I used tongs and ice cream scoopers to clean out the floor drain. 

I found a long lost dog ball, four marbles, and various nasty things in the floor drain.

The dog ball was originally blue or orange. The stick is under a filing cabinet so the water that got under there can dry out. 

I bought a replacement strainer at Lowes. There are no visibe threads and nothing to hook a strainer into that I could see so I got the one pictured.

This floor drain is not in a spot that gets stepped on so this strainer should work.

I flushed out the drain using several buckets of water. Without the dog ball in it the drain works well. I also added flushing out the drain to my home maintenance checklist to be done regularly.