07-26-2010, 10:55 AM
3dR3 Wrote:tell your brother that anytime you are expecting heavy rains that will back up the sewers to jam a rag in the toilet and put a 2x4 in then wedge it against the floor framing above... it'll keep the shit out at the least. My old man has been fighting something similar in our basement for years... this works.
Last time we had "100 year flooding" (two years ago), he had two or three feet of shit in his basement. One of his neighbors had those backflow preventing valves in his floor drains, the force of the water backing up buckled his floor.