Don't put water into clay! It becomes impossible to dig and lift and you can't get the damn stuff off of your digging tools or your boots.
----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Baldwin To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:59 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] I am back and have a sewer line problem. Waste vent is the pipe that runs out the roof of your house, usually 3-4 inches in diameter. All the other drain lines should come to this main stack. Fill the hole with a few inches of water and let it soak in over night, or for a day or so, the soil will be easier to dig out, or probe in. Michael _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer Jackson Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I am back and have a sewer line problem. What is a waste stack? The waste management guy was no help about the location of the line. his exact words were "that is between you and your plumber." He seemed a little irritated that we would even bother him with questions about where the city main is. :) I do not know what the pipe is made of. Also, I can not do a probe at the bottom of the trench we have because the clay down there is to hard. My husband can barely get the shovel in more than an inch or so at a time and he is a big guy with experience digging and is using a sharp shooter. Jennifer ----- Original Message ----- From: RJ To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I am back and have a sewer line problem. Did you try a roter snake? That could be the answer to the problem, instead of all the digging. The municipality might be able to give you a location where the pipe is. Or if you have a waste stack, you might want to put a hole in it and enter a snake from it. Than place a 3 inch saddle on the stack and add a clean out. What is the pipe made of. Cast iron, Plastic, or etc. and ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennifer Jackson To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 13:52 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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.7/1408 - Release Date: 4/30/2008 6:10 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
