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Sewer line problems? (video)


               
2012 Dec 20, 10:54pm   12,096 views  24 comments

by swebb   follow (0)  

I had the sewer line scoped on the house we are looking at.

The video is here if anyone cares to watch it:

http://www.u1TFxONjRgQ&feature=youtu.be

I have had opinions ranging from "needs to be patched in one section" to "the whole line needs to be trenched and re-laid due to inadequate slope"

Do we have any plumbers on this forum with an opinion on the condition of the line? Any armchair plumbers?

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1   zzyzzx   @   2012 Dec 21, 10:20am  

I see a turd at around the 44 second mark.

2   zzyzzx   @   2012 Dec 22, 2:39am  

Exactly where is the video are you seeing a problem?

3   Ceffer   @   2012 Dec 22, 3:46am  

I know it is not my colostomy video because it looks way too good and my head is nowhere in sight.

4   Lam   @   2012 Dec 22, 4:19am  

I think part of the pipe has been installed the wrong way up. causing the fluids to flow along the top of the pipe rather than the bottom. That's gonna be a big problem.

5   Bap33   @   2012 Dec 22, 3:24pm  

The first 20 feet looks like pretty fresh white PVC pipe, while that lower section is china clay pipe (older than 1980 subdivision?). The china clay works awesome, especially under the roadway. If you had "Orangeburg" fiber pipe I would suggest full replacement, but what you have is great and has no issues.

I see nothing but a possible lazy cook allowing grease down the drain. No roots, no cracks in the clay bells, and that slight off-set they note is nothing to worry about, in my opinion. Those offsets are filled in and the poo slides on past. All the slight mis-alignments are normally slicked off with debris, but the plmbers wash out the lines before they scope, so those offsets are exposed. Not a big deal, in my opinion.

I see nothing wrong with the lateral, but I may have missed something, so use your judgement.

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