Hi everyone,
Not much of an update as it relates to the pool, but as you know we encountered a major sewer issue when digging! We hit a pipe that serviced the sewer to a guest bath downstairs and our laundry service. We haven't used the bathroom since and came up with a workaround for the washer. After a couple of bids to fix were >$4000 we decided that we could manage, in the end we spent $735 in parts and rentals, free labor is such a good thing, and we saved a ton of moolah!. This weekend we decided to fix it and this is how we did it!
1. Always invite you mom and dad, Dad in my case he is a honey-badger of endurance, smarts, jack of all trades, and lack of concern for getting dirty, and for some reason he does not charge an hourly wage. As long as you feed him, compliment his work on a regular basis, and surround him with sweet kittens, he will stay as long as you need! My dad will beat up your dad kinda thing :). Thanks Dad for all the help, much appreciated!
My Mom was the photographer extraordinaire who was more than happy to manage (watch), and give quick advice as things got messy! Probably more difficult than all of this is wrangling the circus of kid and kittens and birthday stuff oh my! Thanks Mom for coming down to help!
2. Rent an oversized mini-X to dig the trenches for sewer lines. In my case the small mini-x that I wanted was rented out and they only had the big one. This one required a 2-5/16" ball hitch, that I did not have, went into HD and put a set together and told the rental counter my truck was good to go. The max towing on my truck is way less than the total 10,500 combined excavator/trailer combo. When I lowered that thing down on my truck I swear the wheel wells were going to touch my tires. Anyway, I only travel 2 miles on a 35 MPH road to get home, not a big deal, made it just fine.
3. Layout what you know and make a plan. All we could do at this point is draw out what we have discovered during the build and also what we have discovered during a recent sewer issue (which was super helpful) to us finding the pipe that we need to fit into! The pipe that we busted during the excavation was a cast iron pipe from a long time ago remodel, originally this home did not have sewer/septic, all were remodels over the last 100-years!
4. Drop in the lines and glue them in, ensuring you have proper fall so the "stuff" always flows downstream!
5. Backfill trenches with the dirt you excavated, grade everything the best you can and return your rental, easy as that! Just kidding this was a ton of work! Let me tell you why...
This is a schematic of my backyard where water, sewer, sewer mains, barn/pool electric, and pool plumbing all come together. There is a ton of stuff to watch out for. We have had to figure this out along the way and got super lucky this weekend we were able to catch everything as needed and didn't break anything any further. not included are the old clay pipes that went to a stone septic that I discovered last year!
Here are a few pics of the work over the past couple of days, some are just for my records for the future (locations of things) but it helps give you an idea of work! At first we thought we knew where the pipe we were going to tie in was, when we located it, it was a 6" pipe and we decided to stay away from it, we think it might be a sub main with the neighbors duplex and that is not something we want to mess up right next to the pool, can't believe we didn't hit it with the excavation!
We finally found a 4" pipe we could drop into, that is where we focused our efforts the next day and half!
Tying in to the main line from house ,just before drop into 6"
figuring out the drop with this certain level, they are all different!
I thought I had more hair back there!
How did this get in here??
final solution
6" running to main
And finally we get to take down this sign (for our handmade washer pipe fix that went into the side yard), we had a successful reroute today of pipes, washer can be used as normal! Stay tuned!
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