Hi there, we bought this house a year ago and was told the drains needed to have routine maintenance on them. My knowledge level with this is very low. I thought it would be easy to find out what that maintenance would be but I can't find information online because I'm not sure what I am searching for. Floor drain just shows newer home PVC type set ups without the big concrete hole. What is this drain called? How do I maintain it? We did have a bad smell the other day, coming from this small room, for a short period that just went away. The water level hasn't changed so I assume it is still primed? don't think its gas from the sewage system? When we bought the house the inspector took a picture and now it looks different than it did so maybe that can help identify the issue? The level seems the same but the colour has a blue oily tint to it now..

I need to extend a flag pole that's at the front of our house. It's a 6' pole with a 3x5' flag. It's mounted on the side of the house and the flag is pointing at a 45 deg angle or so (the typical angled flag setup).. the flag winds up getting blown onto the roof that overhangs that part of the house. For years I had an 8' closet rod that I made into a flagpole here and it worked fine. Wound up wanting to do it 'right'. and getting a flagpole that has a rotating upper portion so the flag doens't get wrapped around the pole. But its too short / the flag gets on the roof. Trying to extend it,I found that a 1/2" PVC pole fits into the bottom of the flagpole (hollow aluminium tube. Home depot has 2' pieces of sched 40 PVC 1/2" that are precut and they are nice and ridgid. but their 10' pieces seem more flimsy. Yes, over 10', there's going to be more bend. but just handling the 2 different ones (the longer pieces have black printing and the small ones have orange. Likely differnt vendors. they don't cut them at the store. Does that sound right? Different company's sched 40 can be more / less flexible than another brand? I'm thinking how to stiffen the longer piece (I need about 5 ' long so the 2' won't work on its own) - 2' sticking out and 3' going into the existing pole (its a 2 part pole so the PVC would hit the connection of the 2 parts.). I thought of rebar, but that's heavy. the aluminium mounting bracket is made for the 6' pole. I';m lengthening it AND making it that much more heavy if I go with rebar. Any ideas? Thin inexpensive tubing? something else? THANKS!