Our Plumbing Work

Our Plumbing Work
Originally uploaded by A Bob's Life in Pictures.

Sven's been complaining today about plumbing trouble, so I thought I'd let him know he's got it easy (noodles in the drain...no, no, no, not noodles on the brain, noodles IN the Drain!). This summer we had about half of our vacant lot at the old house torn up. We traced out the sewer line from the house (using both old techniques and new) and thought it went out behind the garage. We then pulled out the City sewer map and it confirmed what we believed. The tractor in the photo then headed back behind the garage and started digging. Twelve feet deep and thirty feet long, and they didn't find ANYTHING! After some sleuthing and some help from a family member in the drain business, we tryed a new spot almost right next to the house, and we found it. We then had to have the entire line dug up all the way across the lot where they found that TWO cisterns had collapsed onto the sewer line and crushed it. The photo here is the trench across the lot. The little pipe sticking up is the new sewer line drain out. The trench here is about 8 feet deep, and it was full of sewage. It seems that the collapse had occurred a while ago (as in months), but we didn't have an immediate problem because there was plenty of room underground for it to store up. Yep, our plumber LOVED us!