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I never figured thisnout, and managed to leave it alone. Guessing inspectorD's thought of it being a cleanout for an old wash sink is probably likely. Laundry area used to be around that spot.

My house is a amall ranch with a full basement built around 1950. I have a small plug in the floor. I can't figure out what it is. I was thinking perhaps at one point it was a sump pit that was sealed over. The cement has obviously been patched around the pipe about the diameter of a sump...

OK, so the day after my last post I tried to remove the plug...no luck. I then started to chip away at the concrete, but didn't get far. Then, the next day my daughter was born and thi sfell of my radar. Now, 10 months later and I'm thinking about it again. In the past ten months I've had no...

Thanks for the info! By sealed up, I mean the spot is cemented over, with just this cleanout plug in the center. My guess is this was done prior to the radon mitigation as it looks old, and the mitigation was added in the 90's. Forgive my ignorance, but what is a curtain drain? Would that...

I own a ranch home with a basement (1/2 finished ½ unfinished) that was built in late 40’s or early 50’s and have questions regarding basement flooding. For the most part, my basement is dry, and not humid. I have a radon remediation system consisting of two 4” pipes through the slab on either...