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[Fivemonthslater]

So many people run grease down their drains and then wonder why the lines clog there. I’ve never, ever had those lines clog. 🤔

[myway]

Okay. I admire your professionalism but I gotta say, this video was worthy of so many ‘gigitty’s’ I lost count 🤣🤣🤣

[hughoneill]

Hi, Remember that old cast iron sewer drains can be relined without the need to carryout expensive excavations.

[jeremygrund]

The “sludge” in the ABS line is kitchen grease. If you ever see the top of a line coated as such it’s a indication of a back up where grease is involved

[kchance]

Our 100 yr old large two story has lots of cast iron. Still under the floor. Used to have squirrels get in the stink pipe on the roof, die after falling down, and plug up our main. Finally put a screen on the stink pipe, 40’ in the air 😂

[paulp.l.]

At 7:15 you are a mouse passing by when the "protection was taken off"...
Haha

[mikemetz]

Omg I cannot breathe!!!! All children at heart….

[michaelprosperity]

Last Tuesday in 95° heat my kitchen sink clogged. I used the two rod out locations under the sink and at the drop to the basement. The clog would not rod out. It appears the after I plunged the sink everything just compacted. I finally went balls to the walls. Removed the 7' foot drop PVC pipe section from the basement ceiling to the floor. It was packed. I took the pipe out in the yard and flushed it. I then cleaned out the drop from the basement floor to the catch basen. It was pure sludge. I high pressure hosed everything out. Sludge everywhere until everything ran clean. When I reinstalled the 7' section I installed a rodeout and 3" below that a Y with a trap plug so I could flush out the system to the catch basin if need be. Everything was at the height of the slop sink. 120yr old house. It's my house so I did overkill with the application of cleanouts.

[nolehopkins]

I'm a home inspector too. And I use them daily. They are awesome.

[nick]

You can put a sleeve down the pipes and inject epoxy into it and it basically turns the old iron pipe into a smooth plastic pipe

[liveandlearn]

The high rise buildings I service tend to get clogged often. I knew a plumber who said it could be that the 30+ year cat iron is flaking from the inside. I just snake it and get my money, but I recently found out that the main riser is not in need of a jet or a pitch correction... rather that a competitor of mine dropped 20+ feet of their K60 snake and just left it behind inside the riser 🤣🤣

[rustyshakleford]

A seesnake is $2500. This is definitely worth buying if it lasts. Most guys charge between $300- 400 just to run the camera once.

[billysyms]

I've always left inspection and rooter service to the "turd chasers". Replacing those main lines are no joke either, easily a 5 figure job out here in La-La land.

[zafarsyed]

I remember that series- you ended up having to bust up the concrete and sidewalk to redo all of it

[stevebabiak]

The white stuff in the drain pipes is grease that went down the kitchen sink.

[volvorex]

our mainlines are 8” and customer’s service lines are 4”. Always wanted a good camera to look at my 4” service

[handimanjay]

Need to run a power auger with the blades. Tape that camera head at a slight angle on the end of a pool sweep pole to reach under houses to inspect in tight places.

[michaeljoynt]

my first house had terracotta pipes for the drains. one day one just failed and rain water that was plumbed into the toilet drain, water was pouring in through the basement foundation wall. I had to dig up the backyard myself and I hired a plumber to do the actual pipe replacement but I did all the digging and such. I didnt want them to fill in the hole because I wanted to seal the foundation wall but they did the backfill, I was so pissed. but didnt have time or the energy to dig it out again.

[ruffryder]

1.5 inch is pretty small for all of that water. My old house had the same setup but the pipe must have been at least 2 inch. But even that seemed like it was pushing it. Hopefully they don't use a garbage disposal too! We also made sure to not put grease down the sink...
Not sure about that price without a clean out. That's like a 10 minute job to pull the toilet. Don't see why it'd be $500 bucks more.

[martinbeland]

You should maybe use a pressure washer with a cleaning nozzle which shoots water in the front and also backwards and around. I hired someone who used this to clean the sewer line going to our sceptic tank.The way the nozzle is made makes it advance in the pipe by the force of the water pressure.