Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Well.. after getting 3 estimates and watching you tube vids per Sewer line....

Glad to be able to help. I wish we had 6 more inches though.

You should really ask the sanitary sewer people for your city if they have an as-built drawing for that sanitary sewer. If they do, we can calculate the grade at your tie in and be sure it's a straight shot.

Words spoken to KSmith on a date

Looking at higher flow toilets also.
These 1.5 gal low flow suck azz...

For now.
Replace wax rings on wensday.
Clean out and snake the mains under the toilets into the house main.
Can't hurt.
59 yr old cast iron pipes.
Everything that flows into the main after the toilets has no issues.
Those 3.5 to 4 ft L,s from the toilets gotta need a good snaking and run a hose down em.


Hydro blast service for 79 bucks in the next week or two needs to happen also.

You should really ask the sanitary sewer people for your city if they have an as-built drawing for that sanitary sewer. If they do, we can calculate the grade at your tie in and be sure it's a straight shot.

With the two way cleanouts at both ends they can hydroblast the whole thing next time it get's sludged up. They're 40 clams a pop at the lowes. Probably half that at the plumbing supply house.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Charlotte-...-40-Hub-Cleanout-Adapter-Fitting/3132651

Get city to jet the main in front of your house as well.

How many homes between the dead end manhole and the next downstream manhole?

I know man.

Didn't put a clean out in at the street end.
Later on this summer I'm gonna replace this old one by the house with a 2 way one like a member posted a pic of.
Looked at em at lowes.

I just wanted to get stuff done per all the issues today and have it up and running way better.

Yep - this ^^

Get city to jet the main in front of your house as well.

How many homes between the dead end manhole and the next downstream manhole?
4 to 5 both sides of street going east down the street / ridge .
Then makes a turn south down hill to bottom east west road.

Part of the neighborhood is on one L
Part of neighborhood on other L

Best way I can describe it.

Tell the girls the new way of using the toiley is to turn the faucet on before they sit down and leave it on until they're cleaned up and ready to leave the bathroom.

And no grease of any sort down the drain. EVER. Let it cool and put it in a cheese puff container or a big creamer container or a soup can or whatever and then the trash can.

That is a idea.
But they don't listen....
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They listen at our house

Mrs slumlord drags the whole litter up under a 24” crawlspace to help saw down 20ft of greased up drain line and glue in new pipe

Yup - if ren put them on that shovel for a few hours and threatened to do it again I bet they would listen.

When I was working on sewer lines and maintaining lift stations it would amaze me at the stuff we would find.

Some if it you wonder how in the hell it got in the system, some was normal stuff that people flush but had no business in the system.

Rubbers, magnetic numbers and letters kids stick on the fridge. Q tips, little cotton mice, plastic price tag hangers....you name it and it's probably been in the sewer system.

Worst thing is flushable wipes. Let those things layer up in the bottom of a wet well and they will suck up against the suction line and you can't get prime. Daycare close to a lift station was terrible about those things. My grandpa was bad about flushing them then wonder why my buddy would charge him $150 for an auger job and at times maybe more than once a month. Told him no flush, he says, well the package says flushable.

I once had a broken toilet in the ditch next to my old house, highway on S side of the yard. Had a schitty pair of boxers stuck in it.

Cousins boy once tried to get a bag of baby carrots to flush minus the bag, they didn't make it out of the toilet, stuck in the trap.

I mapped a spatial analysis hotspot program on our GIS for problematic lift stations. (We had about 220)

I was able to correlate some demographic data and overlay it and tag our ‘worst’ sub basins.

Ethnicity makes Smith & Loveless some bucks.

Then in our college area sub basins it was tampons, napkins, shower caps, gloves from hair dye.

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Careful Slum. You're intelligence is showing...

We had an old building that was used for Meals on Wheels, city owns it. A little 50 or 60 gallon wet well. Talk about a greasy bastard. I dumped a lot of chemical in there to keep things soft. Also made sure they used Dawn as much as possible.

I only had 2, maybe 3 small tanks. The rest were 2000 gallons plus.

S&L, Gorman Rupp and a submerged Flyte system.

I always wash and save any jars or containers with lids from stuff like pickles, peppers or mayo and the like. Any grease or other stuff that’s not good for the drain/septic systems goes in them. Put the lid on them and into the trash.

speaking of bad things for a sewer pipe and septic system, garbage disposal. actually worse for a septic system but still not friendly for a pipe without quite enough grade on it.

Especially, when the cat gets all the way in there, somehow.

My buddy works for the sewer department for a local city.
He sends me pics of all sorts of awful stuff caught up in lift pump stations.
Best pic was a wet station down line from a seedy motel. Thing was chaulk full of condoms.
I told him "at least your pumps were well lubed"