Did I get hosed?

[havasu]

Speaking about clean outs, when I dug up my water line to the street for replacement last year, I uncovered a buried clean out in my front yard. The workers reburied it after the water pipe install, and now I can't find it. I have used a long screwdriver stabbing the ground every 4" in the general area, but still can't find it. Is there a trick to finding this clean out?

[Mr_David]

Originally Posted by johnjh2o

David, I can see were K-1500 has a advantage over our smaller machine. But in my area we very rarely have to run 100' of cable. Most of the lines are less then 50' from the home to the city invert. Even from the roof that would only add another 30'.
I guess we have it pretty easy. Are sewer lines are also very shallow and in the cases were it is a long run (which is rear) there will be a clean out every 50'.

John

That's a nice machine. I like the fact you can use both the 7/8 and the 5/8 cable with an easy adjustment.

[LiQuId]

havasu...

I dont really know what to suggest but i DID think of the possibility of using a metal detector to pick up the inron filings that you flushed down the pipes. ( obviously you would have to put filings down the pipe ) and I suppose this would just gove you the location of the pipe and not the c/o location.... So.... upon further thought I would suggest a cable camera with a locator.

..good idea?

[havasu]

My phone has a metal detector and I had hoped to pick up the metal cap, but it is obviously just another junk app. I believe I will wait for a big rainstorm and try it again with a 1' steel probe. Carry on...............

[johnjh2o]

This is what we use. Less chance of getting jolted if you should hit a underground wire. Of course our ground is just sand. I don't think there is a rock in the state.
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John

[LiQuId]

if it has a metal cap then rent a metal detector and it should be an easy find.

I phone apps are off for sure was in a parkade looking north ( for sure ) and my buddys phone app for compass said we were looking south west. unless somebody moved the north star then it was definatelly wrong.

[Otahyoni]

We'd break those probes around here. I've bent our steel probe a couple times.

We're just probing for plastic field tile though. No danger of hitting anything other than dirt, which feels more like cement at times.