Bathroo without floor drain should I consider leaving an opening toward the next room that has one ?

[Mini Me]

This is (to me) an interesting dilemma and idea
I have a bathroom in the basement and it is adjacent to a kitchen which has a floor drain in the middle of it (it so happened that when the basement was partitioned the floor drain for the entire basement ended up being there so the enter basement floor is sloped to drain there.
My framing looks like this, the bottom plate is suspended on pieces of wood, it is not adjacent to the floor.
Would it be a good idea to put a small pipe there and open the drywall so I can drain to the kitchen in the event of a flood in the bathroom ?

 

[James Henry]

Sure.

 

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[Tuttles Revenge]

I think I would just lift all the drywall off the floor (which is the normal way to install drywall) off the floor and any baseboard as well so that it all has a uniform opening / reveal. Water is going to go wherever it wants to go and it will go under the wall no matter where you place that tube. So let it breathe if it does get wet.

 

[James Henry]

You could do that too, or leave the drywall down to the floor so someone doesn't freak out when they see a bug crawling under the wall into the bathroom.