On 2/24/2011 6:53 PM, aemeijers wrote:
On 2/24/2011 12:52 PM, Joe wrote:
On Feb 24, 3:46 am, Jeff wrote:
I've been rooting out my waste pipe. This is 6" clay pipe. This runs
out the side of my house, hangs a right and heads toward the backyard,
hangs another right and runs behind the house, another right and runs
along the other side of the house. Then it heads through a couple of
120' pine trees before it hits the city sewer. That is as far as I could
root it out. The rooter got stuck (electric eel with a bunch of 8
footers on it).

This brings up some questions, aside from why the huge detour.

I'll need to cut the drain pipe and run the snake back in before it
hits the pines. I'm thinking masonry wheel in my angle grinder.
Rectangular hole and patch it with a bit of screen and hydraulic cement.
Does that sound about right? How would I put a clean out in?

I've got rock salt and copper sulfate. I don't want to kill the pines
(because I'd have to take them down). Will I have to worry about that?

Jeff

Sooner or later you will give up on the clay drainage pipe like most
everyone else has. In its day it was easy to put down and cheap.
Currently used plastic comes in 21' lengths in some cases, 10' lengths
in others. Depending on your code requirements, a skilled operator
could have your whole line replaced in less than a day. Check the
prices for the job and weigh it against the aggravation and consider
that it won't get much cheaper for a while.

Joe

What he said. And find a shorter route! My house down in Lake Charles,
built in 63?, had that Orangeburg crap, one step below clay tile. My
father started having problems with it, and was looking for a cheap
solution. I told him to replace the whole damn thing with PVC and be
done with it, on my nickel.


With the way the land falls off there may be a reason why they did the
tour. The lot falls away toward the back right corner.
I'm resistant to digging out the old line as it runs under a good bit of
concrete (~65'), all of it added after the house was built in '29.
Unless I'm mistaken that would take one bad horizontal drill to run a
sewage line. Am I wrong?

Jeff


Life is too short for some things. Not
slamming clay tile, mind you. If you happen to be in a location without
root or frost heave problems, it can last damn near forever. But once it
starts screwing up, the labor for a patch isn't that much lower than for
a total replacement. And 'fresh sewer line' is a real good selling point.