We've been living in a 100-year-old house for 45-years with about every ten years an occasional clog which I've been able to clear with a rented 50-foot snake.
This weekend, life as we knew it came to an end. The rented snake didn't do it. A pro-rooter stringing two 125-foot snakes together hit the wall at the 175-foot mark after eight-and-a-half hours of hard work.
The takeaway - the house originally had a septic system. In 1969, the sewer came down the street; the second owner installed his own line, using Orangeburg pipe. I'd never heard of the stuff, but a bit of research says it has a maximum life of fifty years under ideal conditions. My line is fifty-one years old.
From the back of the house, the original septic line is turned 90-degrees, runs under 50-feet of asphalt driveway, into the side and a 45-degree turns it downhill toward the street for the last 100 feet. The guess is somewhere between the big pine tree, the spyrea hedge and the evergreen border, there are collapsed sections.
Their suggestion is to dig in that area, find collapsed sections, replace them and install an inflatable, hardenable Nu-Flo liner system inside the Orangeburg which remains open.
Yes, in the perfect world, dig it all up and go with new. The 125' of shrubbery and lawn is doable, but going 3.5' down under that last 50' of asphalt is a bit spendy.
Your thoughts?
jack vines
This weekend, life as we knew it came to an end. The rented snake didn't do it. A pro-rooter stringing two 125-foot snakes together hit the wall at the 175-foot mark after eight-and-a-half hours of hard work.
The takeaway - the house originally had a septic system. In 1969, the sewer came down the street; the second owner installed his own line, using Orangeburg pipe. I'd never heard of the stuff, but a bit of research says it has a maximum life of fifty years under ideal conditions. My line is fifty-one years old.
From the back of the house, the original septic line is turned 90-degrees, runs under 50-feet of asphalt driveway, into the side and a 45-degree turns it downhill toward the street for the last 100 feet. The guess is somewhere between the big pine tree, the spyrea hedge and the evergreen border, there are collapsed sections.
Their suggestion is to dig in that area, find collapsed sections, replace them and install an inflatable, hardenable Nu-Flo liner system inside the Orangeburg which remains open.
Yes, in the perfect world, dig it all up and go with new. The 125' of shrubbery and lawn is doable, but going 3.5' down under that last 50' of asphalt is a bit spendy.
Your thoughts?
jack vines
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