The house was built in 81. I was thinking the same thing about the clay and am glad you brought this up. I think we need to go wider rather than deeper, but we also have to worry about the phone and cable lines that are coming in on either side of this area.
Jennifer ----- Original Message ----- From: lenny McHugh To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I am back and have a sewer line problem. Hi Jennifer, How old is your home? If it is not that old and you are in hard packed clay that is probably not the spot where the line is located. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:52 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] I am back and have a sewer line problem. Hey Guys, Please do not take this badly, :) but I am back because of a desperate problem that I know you all can help me with. Even if that help is have a drink and call the plumber. :) I noticed some new names in the digest, so I will take just a moment to introduce myself and then get right to my sewer problem. I am Jennifer and I live in Oklahoma with my three young sons and my husband. I am not very handy, but have learned so much from this list in the past and gained a lot of confidence about what I can do myself. Ok, here we go with the sewer line. I have a partial block. Enough of a block that my washing machine and dishwasher back up and send water over flowing out of the half bath there by the laundry room. As you can imagine this does not make me very happy, though my floors are looking extra clean these days from the bleach water and other detergents. :) We tried some nasty chemicals and the snake on the line and no luck. It turns out that we do not have a ground level clean out for the plumbers to use so our home warranty is not going to cover this either. So now we are trying to install the ground level clean out, but we can not find the sewer line. We have a clean out just outside the kitchen sink on the wall of the house and the plumber said that most likely our sewer line will run straight out from there. There is about ten feet of concrete between the house and the yard though and we have been told that may mean it is as much as four to six feet deep that far out. We had the electric and what not lines marked and have a pretty narrow window to dig in to find this stupid line. We are now just over four and a half feet down and into hard packed clay. Should we try widening the trench before we go deeper? Any other tips or suggestions? Jennifer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links __________ NOD32 3066 (20080430) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
