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  • Xfitter71
    Handyman
    • Feb 2013
    • 37

    #1

    Soil pipe

    The home was built in 1909. I thinks bathrooms much later. Very strange plumbing. The cast iron soil pipe goes to city line. I think there is build up in the main trunk. Has a clean out on end and plug has been changed to PVC. It's a straight run out of the wall. What's the best way to clean it out?
  • HayZee518
    Deity
    • Jul 2004
    • 8747

    #2
    waste line

    is the pvc installed in the cleanout fitting? did they leave another cleanout cap?
    they should have installed a tee wye fitting with a cap.
    if there is nothing like this then you'll have to remove the pvc, clean out the line and re-pipe the pvc.
    other alternative is to clean it out via the roof stack.

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    • akaothermick
      Absolutely incompetent
      • Jan 2014
      • 141

      #3
      soil pipe

      I have snaked out by removing the toilet and going in through the toilet flange, just a thought.
      Mick

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      • HayZee518
        Deity
        • Jul 2004
        • 8747

        #4
        clean out

        good suggestion but are you going to remove the toilet every time there's a blockage?
        be better to put in a pvc tee-wye with a cleanout fitting in the horizontal run in the basement.

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        • Xfitter71
          Handyman
          • Feb 2013
          • 37

          #5
          We rented a motorized snake and cleaned it.

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