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Questions tagged [sewage]

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Is there a maximum slope for an exterior sewage line?

We are currently connecting our small weekend vacation house—which includes a WC, shower, sink, and washbasin—to the main sewage line on the street. The construction company will install the sewage pipe from the street to our house. The pipeline…
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How can I resolve sagging pipes below basement floor?

Recently we started noticing several issues with drainage in our master bathroom/shower, that resulted in overflow into our downstairs kitchen sink. They look to both be on the same plumbing stack. We called a couple of plumbers into review and they…
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What to do with sewage filled crawlspace

A 50 year old, 3” cast iron sewer pipe has been pouring sewage through two quarter-size holes for at least three weeks, possibly as long as 6 months. I’m finding a plumber to replace the cast iron with PVC, but I want to clean the space also. The…
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What is the best way to tie into main sewage line when adding ADU with 19 DFUs in California?

I’m adding an ADU in California. Can I connect my sewage from the ADU 18 feet away to the existing line? DFU calculation current sewage from kitchen and bathroom
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Can I run septic effluent through a series of filters and get clean water out the other end?

Let's pretend that my leach field suddenly malfunctions ... but we need to continue occupying our house ... so we route the septic tanks effluent through a progressively more aggressive series of 4 or 5 or 6 filters ... The water input into our home…
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Sewage Pump Controller parts nomenclature

The sewage has been overflowing in the backyard: the pump does not seem to be receiving power (voltage). The sewage pump controller contains: There seems to be two assemblies for pump wiring: an upper assembly with many wires tied to it and a lower…
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Intermittent Sewage Smell After Hot Shower

Our house reeks of sewage after a hot shower. It is much worse in the winter when temperatures are colder than the summer. Our basement is plumbed for a bathroom (since summer of 2020 when we moved in). We have not finished the basement or added a…
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Can't get plumbing auger past T-junction after 90° angle

I have a clogged outbound sewage pipe below my kitchen sink. Or rather - some distance away from below my kitchen sink. I have a kind of a plumbing auger, but - its head is a bit wide (maybe 1.5-2cm diameter), and it has no mechanism for spiraling,…
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How to prevent stagnant water in Drainage pit from causing diseases

My house has 6 dry wells for collecting waste water from bathroom and kitchen. I'm worried that it could become a breeding ground for Mosquitoes , Bacteria, virus and foul smell. Are there any guidelines on how to treat the water so I can prevent…
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Fernco sewage connection under tension

The main sewage pipe under a rental property of mine has a long span with a 3 wye right in the middle of it. The geniuses that built the place didn't add any strap support and also decided to lay out all the heavy main electric cables on top of the…
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How bad is this crawlspace sewage spill?

We had a sewer back-up that was quickly dealt with but it was enough to drop some sewage water into the crawlspace. It came from underneath one of the bathroom toilets which had wax ring that started leaking water under the intense pressure. The…
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Attic bathroom smells like sewage... at times

So our house was flipped about 7 years ago and we bought it. In the last two years we've started smelling what we can only describe as raw sewage small occasionally emanating from the (new) attic bathroom. I feel like it usually happens on hot days…
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Sewage smell from bathroom faucet after replacing

I just replaced the toilet, sink, and faucet in my bathroom and I now smell sewage from the sink. Everything is basically the same, although I had to get a drainpipe extender - still have p-trap though. Ideas? Added pic but let me know if the angle…
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How to repair and clean up from sewage drain leak

Last night I went to store some things in my crawl space and discovered that a joint in the drain line from the sump pump out to the city sewer line had become disconnected (see photo; this is a 2004 build in North Carolina). It had been attached…
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May a single sink be safely drained through the vent pipe on a sewage ejector pump?

I have a new bar sink in my basement. The only remaining jobs are to tie the pex lines into the main water lines and to connect the sink drain to the sewage pump. The part that has me a bit troubled is preferring to avoid opening the sewage basin,…
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