Only plumbing professionals should use the drain cleanout. The clog can occur in the main sewage line that extends from the home's foundation, under the ground, and out to the municipal sewage system, a private septic tank, or the portion of the main house drain piping downstream of the h...
How to Find the Septic Tank, Cesspool, Drywell, D-box, or Drainfield Beginning here and in a series of detailed procedures we explain various methods to locate buried onsite wastewater disposal system components: the sewer line or main drain, septic tank, septic tank cleanout openings, distrib...
If none of these procedures are successful, locate the cleanout for the drain, which may be visible in the sink cabinet or may be accessible from the crawl space or someplace underneath the kitchen floor. Unscrew the cleanout cap with locking pliers and feed a snake or a length of wire i...
if you pump out the flooded septic tank, floodwaters, including silt and mud may simply flow into the tank, filling it with silt and debris that will need to be removed.
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Older homes may not have a sewer cleanout in their home. Contact a plumber to come to install one for you to make it easier to locate lines later on or break apart clogs. Tip: If the detector line stops or doesn’t go the full 15 feet (4.6 m), then there may be a clog in ...
Photo: a Backwater Alert alarm system installed at tne cleanout for a building maindrain, courtesy of Backwater Alert, cited below. [Click to enlarge any image] See details at SEWER BACKUP PREVENTION Separately at SEPTIC PUMP ALARM SYSTEMS we illustrate an outdoor-mounted sewage pump alarm sys...