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Sewer Maintenance Warning
updated: Jul 31, 2012, 4:38 PM
By Edhat Subscriber
Just before 2PM today there were great bubbles of sewer gas coming up into my
toilets - workers on the street were doing some work with a large pumping unit,
apparently putting enough pressure in the sewer line to blow the fluid-filled "P"
traps in my house.
I'm all for sewer maintenance, but shouldn't there be some warning? Even with the
lids down water splashed out on the floors from the pressure and the house was
filled with the smell of an open sewer line - methane in part, of course, and
pilot lights and stove on at the time.
What's with this, and why don't they open the exterior cleanouts to let the excess
gas out there, not to mention a warning. Most of my neighbors are not at home -
what will they be coming back to? BTW - I'm on Arriba Way.
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COMMENT 303468P
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2012-07-31 04:41 PM |
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Probs shouldn't be letting people know most of your neighbors aren't home, especially on such a small street...
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COMMENT 303472P
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2012-07-31 05:02 PM |
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I wonder if your roof vents are plugged. Below the traps on all your sewer connections should be vents that go to the roof. Maybe they were using enough pressure and volume of air to blow through everyone's roof vents and still blow the water out of your traps?
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COMMENT 303495P
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2012-07-31 06:08 PM |
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I was under the impression that all houses nowadays were required to have one-way traps, so main sewer lines problems could not back up into houses. If you have a regular plumber, call and ask him that question. If you are an older house, ask about having that added to your line.
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COMMENT 303530
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2012-07-31 07:36 PM |
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To much water pressure on the Vactor truck or the operator ran the cleaning hose to slow.
Run water in your sinks ( fill up the P traps ) to stop the gases from filling your house. If we had to open all of the clean outs when we clean the Wastewater lines we'd get nothing else done and everyone would be complaining because it wasn't all still flowing downhill.
Weigh the options and be happy that's all that happened! P.S. Don't pour grease down the the sink.
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COMMENT 303550
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2012-07-31 08:51 PM |
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If you had trouble on Arriba I suspect it was worse down the line on Abajo
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COMMENT 303557P
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2012-07-31 09:12 PM |
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Should be: Too much water pressure... Too slow...
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COMMENT 303567P
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2012-07-31 11:19 PM |
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550 is funny!
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COMMENT 303584
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2012-08-01 07:08 AM |
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Brown trout alert.
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COMMENT 303596
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2012-08-01 07:42 AM |
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If you can smell it, it's not methane!
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IHEARTSB
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2012-08-01 12:29 PM |
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Make SURE you have a back flow valve installed on your sewer line! We THOUGHT we had one, and found out the hard way we in fact didn't. Our entire downstairs had to be gutted - all flooring removed, drywall cut out in nearly every room, as a result of raw sewage bubbling out of our downstairs toilet. We'd been on vacation so it was almost certainly the city flushing the pipes causing a backup into our house (which we can't prove). Seriously nasty, expensive, and exhausting outcome. It's been 6 months and we still don't have everything put back together. Would not have happened if we'd had this rather inexpensive part installed on our main sewer line. :-/
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