โJun-23-2016 10:00 PM
โJul-19-2016 12:39 PM
S.K. wrote:dodge guy wrote:turbojimmy wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Any home sewer clean out at a home goes into a sanitary line. Some houses have a storm drain at the curb of the property, but I'de like to believe that all of us would know the difference!
No, not a storm drain - a storm water management system on my property consisting of 2 underground dry-wells and an overflow pipe that runs off into the edge of my front yard. It consists of buried 4" white PVC pipe with three 4" clean-outs over a couple-hundred-foot run. I didn't know any of it was there until I started pulling the caps off of the clean-outs. The plumbing is identical to my sanitary sewer line, including the clean-outs, and also in the same general area.
My point is that a white cap sticking out of the ground may not necessarily be a sanitary sewer clean-out.
Ok, well there is an exception. However I would like to think if someone went through the trouble with that kind of system then they know what they have. Or if they bought the house it was explained to them. Our storm water drains at the curb are marked "drains to river" with a picture of fish on them.
So, do we agree that "a white cap sticking out of the ground may not necessarily be a sanitary sewer clean-out"? I would think that conducting a simple test as suggested by Turbojimmy before discharging the waste water into the drain might not be a bad idea.
โJul-19-2016 11:49 AM
danimal53 wrote:turbojimmy wrote:
I dumped at home for the first time last week and it was so liberating!
HA, i read this a little differently, made me laugh quite a bit. I don't see why there would be an issue, like others said as long as you're sure it's a sanitary and not storm sewer, you should be fine. "Better to ask forgiveness than permission" "Better to ask forgiveness than permission"
โJul-19-2016 11:47 AM
dodge guy wrote:turbojimmy wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Any home sewer clean out at a home goes into a sanitary line. Some houses have a storm drain at the curb of the property, but I'de like to believe that all of us would know the difference!
No, not a storm drain - a storm water management system on my property consisting of 2 underground dry-wells and an overflow pipe that runs off into the edge of my front yard. It consists of buried 4" white PVC pipe with three 4" clean-outs over a couple-hundred-foot run. I didn't know any of it was there until I started pulling the caps off of the clean-outs. The plumbing is identical to my sanitary sewer line, including the clean-outs, and also in the same general area.
My point is that a white cap sticking out of the ground may not necessarily be a sanitary sewer clean-out.
Ok, well there is an exception. However I would like to think if someone went through the trouble with that kind of system then they know what they have. Or if they bought the house it was explained to them. Our storm water drains at the curb are marked "drains to river" with a picture of fish on them.
โJul-19-2016 10:49 AM
turbojimmy wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Ok, well there is an exception. However I would like to think if someone went through the trouble with that kind of system then they know what they have. Or if they bought the house it was explained to them. Our storm water drains at the curb are marked "drains to river" with a picture of fish on them.
I've only been in the house since January. I've been finding all sorts of interesting things that weren't "explained to me" ๐
โJul-19-2016 09:25 AM
dodge guy wrote:
Ok, well there is an exception. However I would like to think if someone went through the trouble with that kind of system then they know what they have. Or if they bought the house it was explained to them. Our storm water drains at the curb are marked "drains to river" with a picture of fish on them.
โJul-19-2016 09:20 AM
turbojimmy wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Any home sewer clean out at a home goes into a sanitary line. Some houses have a storm drain at the curb of the property, but I'de like to believe that all of us would know the difference!
No, not a storm drain - a storm water management system on my property consisting of 2 underground dry-wells and an overflow pipe that runs off into the edge of my front yard. It consists of buried 4" white PVC pipe with three 4" clean-outs over a couple-hundred-foot run. I didn't know any of it was there until I started pulling the caps off of the clean-outs. The plumbing is identical to my sanitary sewer line, including the clean-outs, and also in the same general area.
My point is that a white cap sticking out of the ground may not necessarily be a sanitary sewer clean-out.
โJul-19-2016 08:46 AM
โJul-19-2016 08:01 AM
dodge guy wrote:
Any home sewer clean out at a home goes into a sanitary line. Some houses have a storm drain at the curb of the property, but I'de like to believe that all of us would know the difference!
โJul-19-2016 07:51 AM
โJul-19-2016 07:49 AM
S.K. wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:
Just make sure that you dump into a sanitary line and not a storm line. Other than that, no worries.
How does one distinguish the two? Do they use the same type of caps?
โJul-19-2016 07:20 AM
beemerphile1 wrote:
Just make sure that you dump into a sanitary line and not a storm line. Other than that, no worries.
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