MiamiCuse wrote:
I have a 40 year old cast iron sewer line and there is a cleanout in the
middle of my concrete driveway.
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Even closer on one of them:

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...g/P1020895.jpg

The cement has to be quite thin considering if you look close enough, you
can actually see the metal rim flushed with the concrete driveway, although
it is surprising that the rim is so thin...

Yeah, that isn't cast drain, that's a thin wall tubing section.

I'd personally doubt it has anything to do w/ sanitary sewer; more like
a drive storm drain entrance.


My assumption is that right underneath this thin layer of cement is a cast
iron or brass plug I can unscrew and open the access to the pipe. My worry
is the plug threads may be corroded or stuck...but I can't even get to the
first base.

There ain't no plug nor threads--there ain't enough material there to
house them.

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I now wonder if I am not looking at brass plugs. Is it possible that there
is no plug? That the pipes were "sawed off" flushed with the concrete
driveway and they stuffed some newspaper or whatever to plug the holes
without dropping to the bottom, then pour concrete in that space?

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I'd almost bet that's the case and you're not going to find anything
useful even if you bore them out 'cuz (as above) I'd have to be shown
they were somehow connected to the sanitary sewer before I'd have a go
at 'em.

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