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Correcting Existing Waste Water Drain Setup
Relevant background info: 200 year old stone farmhouse in PA. Built into a hillside so the first floor is also the basement. At the rear of the house, the second floor is ground level. The main soil ...
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How High For A Condensate Standpipe?
I have a new Navien NPE-240A2 condensing tankless water heater that I'm installing in an existing small water heater cabinet accessible from the exterior of my house. The current tankless is an older ...
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New Kitchen sink poor drainage
After installing a new sink water backs up too quickly. If I remove the whole construction and pour directly into the sewer line it flows fine, so no line clog.
I think I did mistake in positioning p-...
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Can I Run Electrical Wire through sewage pipe/ vent
I'm trying to run new electrical wire from the basement to my 3rd floor apartment. There’s a cast iron vertical sewage pipe that goes in the exact route I’d like the wire to go. But there would be ...
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What is this pipe? It leaks when the sink runs
I have a pipe that is halfway under a door jamb and inside the concrete floor which when I run a the sink water is now coming out of it. This pipe is next to our AC blower unit inside the basement. I ...
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Toilet Refuses to Flush
Earlier this month, we starting having problems with our sewer line; it began with the downstairs toilet flushing very slowly, then not flushing at all, then backing up when the upstairs was flushed. ...
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UK Sewage connection - is an external rodding point mandatory
I have a house extension built circa 1997. Inside there is a three-port shallow inspection chamber where a shower and toilet join to a single 110mm waste outlet heading out of the house.
Outside the ...
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How far from the kitchen sink can a vent pipe be?
We live in a 1960's single floor concrete slab house with concrete block interior/exterior walls. We had to replace the pipes under the slab in the kitchen and currently still have the floor torn up ...
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Sewer smell in basement - missing venting or other leak?
I recently started detecting a sewer smell coming from the laundry room in my basement. I think I only trigger it (and not every time) when I run my whole-house fan. I've been running this fan (with ...
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How should I seal a drain waste line that I'm no longer using?
The waste line from my kitchen sink is plumbed directly into my side sewer via a dedicated pipe that travels along the exterior of my house before tee-ing into the side sewer line. Apparently this was ...
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Sewer pipe cleanout
My house was built on a slab in1964 and has a walk out basement. There is a floor drain in my basement, along with a toilet & utility sink. Water from the main floor fixtures is backing up through ...
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Where are vents required for bathroom drains?
Here is a diagram of the new drain plumbing we are installing for one and a half new bathrooms.
Where should I locate any required vents on these lines?
I live in Oakland County, MI and it looks they ...
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What's causing the sewer to back into the tub?
We've lived in our house for several years with no sewage problems to speak of.
A few weeks ago, my wife was sick of the sinks not draining very well so she went online and learned about cleaning out ...
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Sewage smell in my basement - Where is it coming from?
I have been randomly getting these periods of time(a day or so) where I enter my basement and I get hit by a strong wave of what I think is sewage gas. I recently replaced the wax ring underneath the ...
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How to install DWV piping for new toilets added to current system
I am wanting to install a toilet in a cabin that is about 150ft uphill from my home. So waste will run downhill, thank goodness. And about 60 ft from my home on that same run I want to install another ...
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How can I hide the vent pipe for my septic system? [closed]
I'm in the process of buying a newly built house and today the builder had work done on the sewer. When I saw the house I couldn't believe that they placed the 3-4" high 'Candy Cane' smack dab in the ...
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Persistent sewage smell coming from basement drain
I've recently purchased a house and am now learning all the ins and outs of home maintenance. This summer, I've noticed that I have a very smelly basement drain. Particularly, it smells like sewage.
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How should I fill in a trench left by replacement of a sewer pipe?
I recently had my main sewer pipe that runs underground to the main pipe replaced, and I left it open for a few days to check everything is okay, and it seems to be. This is just a small run of pipe, ...
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Why is my toilet backing up and bubbling after replacing an ejector pump?
About two weeks ago my sewage ejector pump died and had a massive overflow in the basement. I replaced the pump but I am now noticing that the toilet backs up. I am also noticing that when I take a ...
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Question about my sewer stack situation
I just purchased my first home with limited knowledge on many things. At one point my house was outside city limits (using a well and septic) and has since been annexed into the city and brought onto ...
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Easy way to seal an old plumbing vent
I plan on buying a house but it has this cleanout and old vent for the plumbing in the basement. Whoever renovated the basement disconnected the vent and just let air flow into the basement.
Is ...
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Should I use glue or o-ring joints on a buried PVC waste pipe?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of both systems of joints for "non-pressure" pipes that are buried?
O-ring joints are more expensive, but easier to do on buried pipes.
Glue on the other ...
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Why is sewage backing up from this outdoor pipe?
I just recently moved into my first house this morning and when I went outside I noticed this:
What happened? What should I do? I have no idea what that pipe even is. I don't believe there is a ...
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