It's time to call someone with a sewer camera to give your system a look.
Yellow pages should have a section for "Sewer Inspection". Be sure they shoot
in color, have a method for recording distances (either electronic onscreen or
they talk into a microphone reading marks off the cable), and leave you a video
disk.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
1979 Caterham 7
1994 Miata C-package
2004 Suburban 8.1
2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4
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----- "Mark Andy" <marka@maracing.com> wrote:
> From: "Mark Andy" <marka@maracing.com>
> To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 8:49:10 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] can I safely heat up a black iron clean out?
>
> Howdy,
>
> So, it turns out the cleanout plug was fairly thin brass.
>
> A 2' pipe wrench on it broke the hex off, so I used a sawzall / cold
> chisel / hammer to remove it.
>
> However, the bigger issue was that even after running a sewer tape out
>
> through the pipe, I still have the problem. The sewer tape may not
> have
> been quite long enough to get to the septic tank however? IIRC it was
> a
> 40' tape and the tank is probably 45 or perhaps 50' out there. Still,
> I
> thought I was home because the sewer tape definitely ran into some
> minor
> obstructions. I also ran a hose for a quite a while (a couple
> minutes?)
> down the line after I ran the sewer tape in there a few times and
> twisted
> it around and such and got nothing headed back towards me.
>
> So, I dunno what's next. I'm pretty much ready to call someone that
> does
> this for a living, but it seems like either the problem is that I
> didn't
> snake the line enough (i.e. I should get a power snake and run it a
> long
> way out there) or that there's something wrong with the septic tank
> and/or
> pump, even though the pump monitor says its fine.
>
> One worry I have with a power snake is that I know that under our
> patio
> they replaced a section of metal pipe with plastic with those rubber
> femco
> (??) connectors on either side... I dunno if power snakes are rough
> enough
> for that to be a problem.
>
> Anyway. Yay being a homeowner. We're off to a hotel.
>
> Mark
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