How Do U Find The Main Drain If The House Is On A Slab

Clogged drain pipe under concrete slab?

Nick, Keep trying. If you can get that line running by yourself, that way, that will be the best thing you could hope for. If you're having trouble getting your auger through that spot, can you put a smaller auger on that snake just to get it running hopefully easier? Then, if you can manage to do that, then put your larger auger back on to clean the line better. That should make it easier if you can do that. After you have been grinding on that spot 10 feet down the line, when you pull the auger out, do you see mud on the auger? If so, that line could be in bad shape. It's also possible that you may just be having trouble getting through a bend in the line right there at that spot. (Probably not though) Do whatever you can to get that line running the way you are. The last thing you want to do is to end up busting up the floor! Keep trying & good luck!

I have a slab house and all my drains are running slow and backing up. I flush my toilet and it doesn't fill?

See if you have outside access. My house,on a slab, had problems and I found a pvc pipe in the backyard next to my house and used a snake to unclog it. It was about 4 inch pipe and maybe 1 inch tall with a screw cap on it. Good luck.

Can a drain blaster air gun cause damage to a clay sewer pipe?

I feel sick now. Half of our house is on a slab and half has a basement. Guess where the sewer pipes are? They will have to tear up the floor in our entire main level to replace the clay pipe under the slab. I don't even know how much that will cost, not to mention stress of that with 2 small children in the house. If that is what has happened and I have to do this major renovation, I will be very upset. Why wouldn't there be a warning on the drain blaster? It says "safe and effective" and "not for use in main drains and root conditions". It says nothing about the material used for your sewer pipes. Also, my plumber that dug up my front yard and replaced the broken pipe outside never mentioned not to use that type of product. Not that he knew I owned one, but still, some precautionary advice would have been nice. I'm going to go throw up now.

Could I redirect a drain hose from my a/c to just drip on my slab foundation?

Your idea is not a good one, you'll stain the concrete, chances are good for mold and someone may slip and hurt themselves on it. Better idea is to get a pump. I have one on mine. When the reservoir gets so high the pump comes on and ejects the water through a long 3/8 piece of PEX tubing over to my washing machine drain.

That's the right way to do it. All you need is power and possibly a control voltage. I'll have to look at mine to make sure, so I may edit this answer in a few minutes.

Hope this helps.

'av'a g'day mate.

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EDIT: OK, yes, mine does have a control line. I had the system installed so I don't know FOR SURE how it's operated, but I suppose that when the system is operating, if the condensate gets so deep the pump kicks on and drains the reservoir. It looks as if it can hold up to a half gallon of condensate so it only runs when it gets to a certain level. There's also a line for an alarm, so if you know what you are doing you can hook that up to an alarm to let you know something has malfunctioned. But you'll need to know how it's integrated into the system.

You DID say there WAS an existing line that has become damaged. Can't you just replace that?

Food for thought.

'av'a g'day mate.

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How would I get a diagram of the plumbing in my house? It was built in '69.?

The only way is to see if the building dept in your area has a set of blue prints on microfische. Otherwise, nothing else you can do, except visually try & sort it out.

Can I embed sewer lines in a concrete slab foundation?

I am building a small house on my land (24'x32' - 768 sq ft) for my elderly dad to live in. I'm building it myself with the help of some friends, more of a project than anything else.

I've had fill dirt hauled in, leveled out and grated. I had the form built for the concrete slab to be poured. So now I'm on plumbing before I can pour the slab.

The main line for the septic tank is trenched and buried below the dirt. My friend, whose experience has been putting in sprinkler and irrigation systems for golf courses, said we could lay the other piping (for the one bathroom, kitchen sink and drain for washing machine) on top of the dirt with enough fall to drain. This would mean that the piping is embedded in the slab, instead of underneath the slab, once it's poured. I've never built a house before but I've always seen piping buried in the dirt, inches below the surface, then covered with dirt then the slab poured so the entire slab is the same depth. Also, everything will be covered with rolled wire before the slab is poured.

So my question is: will this work or should the plumbing be buried?

Can a slab foundation be converted to a crawl space?

I am interested in purchasing a post and beam home that was partially completed but it was built on a modified slab foundation (4 foot frost walls with 16" thick slab). We are having difficulty with determining the floor plan due to where the water pipes and sewer outflow are located coming into the foundation (no pipes are "in" the foundation, just piped from well into the house and 4" drain pipe to septic tank/leech field) and were wondering if it would be possible to either jack the house and build a crawl space on top of the slab, or build up the floor so there would be a crawl space-like area beneath the floor for piping and wiring. No Wiring or plumbing has been done, currently it is only the timber-framed shell (posts, beams, and panels).

How can I make a washing machine drain to an overhead pipe?

i have been using your system for 15yrs with no problems at all