What is the best feasible way to cut sewer taps in the field? - Billy
Brian: Billy, the first thing you need to do is excavate down to the pipe and determine the pipe type. Depending upon what kind of pipe it is and if it’s being used all the time (continuous flow), you have a [...]
I have a home that had tree root problems and was causing the sewer to back up. We snaked out the sewer line and it runs ok. The problem is the sludge and gray water that has built up. It has clogged up in a pipe that has branched off the main. Snaking does not [...]
It smells like “sewer gas” in my basement -- what should I do?The most common cause of “sewer gas” (hydrogen sulfide) odor in basements is due to improperly maintained floor drains. The floor drains in your basement are designed to “trap” the hydrogen sulfide gases in the sewer and away from your basement.How to Remedy the Problem:read more
Bournemouth, UK, is often mocked by many of the British for the average age of its citizens. In short, a seaside resort where many go to die. Jack Dee once quipped that the shop windows are all fitted with bi-focals to allow passers-by to ascertain what lies within.But the citizens, it seems, are having the last laugh as it has been reported this week that the town is to be the first in the UK to
Today, a sewer scope in Portland is as common as the city’s winter rain. It’s smart. It’s easy. It’s cheap.Case in point, a homebuyer I helped recently performed a sewer scope for a house in Southeast Portland built in 1923. The scope started out well, but it wasn’t long before there was major pooling in the line. The verdict, “a new sewer line had to be bored out from the basement to the city right away.”In this case, as in many, thousands of dollars were at stake. Negotiations took place and in the end, the seller replaced the line at his cost. My buyer’s cost was $99 (which also included an oil tank locate service). Like I said, smart, easy, cheap. Spend the extra money and save yourself a headache.
So as of the end of Monday's Episode Spinelli and Maxie are still stuck in the sewer trying to sniff out the TMK. They have been stuck since Friday's episode. I want to express how amazing these scenes have been. You stick Maxie and Spinelli in a box and Bradford and Kirsten are spinning it into gold.://bradfordanderson.net/
We are planning to move into a building that was built in 1982 that has a cast iron pipe for the main sewer line and there are problems inside the pipe and it clogs constantly. We just had a plumbing company film by camera the inside of the pipe and it looks like one of [...]
Book reviewer Rod Liddle, in the first two paragraphs of his review in the Sunday Times of London, completely destroyed O.J. Simpson's supposed book and everyone responsible for placing the thing in bookstores around the world.
It's hard to fault anything that Liddle had to say.
Now, here’s a thing. A book that is simultaneously morally disgusting and excruciatingly dull. A filthy little
If you thought that a bit of rain and a few hailstones on Monday night was the end of it you were wrong. Brian posted a comment (see storm posts below) about the plight of people around the Wistaston Road area, where pipes, drains and a major sewer had collapsed. Always one to hop on his bike and grab some snaps, I headed off down Wistaston Road to the house of Brian's daughter. It wasn't pretty, the smell hit me as soon as I was shown down to the steep garden. Apparently, the sheer pressure of water entering the drains and down to the sewers that run along the Wistaston Road gardens was immense. The result was a gusher, a jet of water, sewage and rubbish being thrown into the air with incredible force. A couple of bricks were also thrown out onto the lower part of the garden. Sadly, especially for the kids, the garden cannot be used for the foreseeable future. Engineers have cordoned it off and have advised that more of the garden could cave in. I moved across the lawn carefully, am
My blog readers know I’m a big fan of sewer scopes. In my opinion, they’re well worth the $100 or so homebuyers in the Portland area spend.I’ll get to two examples that highlight their importance. But first, what is a sewer scope? It’s the examination of a home’s sewer line conducted by sending a camera from a home’s clean-out all the way to the city main. The scope searches for root intrusions, gaps in line, problems that wouldn’t be found in a typical home inspection.Now back to those examples.I recently had homebuyers in the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland buy a home. At the same time, I had homebuyers go under contract for a home in Beaverton. Both conducted sewer scopes during their inspection period, but the negotiated outcomes were quite different.For the house in Sellwood, the sewer scope showed that the sewer line was fine on the property itself. However, there were huge holes on the city portion leading up to the main; so much so that the inspector ca
A 41 year old man has drowned after he was trapped in a sewer while trying to retrieve his mobile phone. Local police report that he apparently tried to retrieve his dropped mobile phone using a garden rake, but when that failed - he removed the cover off the drain and tried to reach into the sewer to get at the phone. He then seemed to have fallen into the sewer and got stuck.
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I had just opened up a blog post and I went to answer the call of nature prior to starting the entry when a scorpion fell from the ceiling fan vent and into the toilet. Needless to say, scorpion go down the hole.For the record they don't float.
In more robot news from Asia, here's an interesting story about a sewer inspection robot that was used to locate a fugitive who'd hidden in the city sewer. The man, who'd stolen a woman's purse, escaped into a sewer pipe. Unfortunately, he'd been stripped of his clothes while fleeing, and he chose an exceptionally cold time to do so - the temperature was 34 degrees F.
The robot located the man,
