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Cleanout Installations.
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homes featuring sewer lines NOT composed of PVC
or ABS rarely featured cleanouts for maintenance.
A cleanout is a piece of sewer line that juts up
vertically in the home's yard from the main and
extends above the surface of the ground. It ties
in with the main sewer line with a smooth angle
to allow a drain cleaning machine to be run, clearing
any blockages. The cleanout is capped with a removable
piece to access the main line. Without one of these
cleanouts, the only access to the main sewer line
was by pulling a toilet and cleaning the main from
the bathroom. Sometimes, if room in the crawlspace
permits, the drain machine can be operated via a
cleanout installed at the end of a mainline under
the home. Even so, maintenance on a sewer line is
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a yard-located cleanout. But what
if none exist?
We can fix that.
Older homes often featured cast iron sewer lines, and
were without any sort of cleanout feature. To install
a cleanout in such a case, first the main sewer line must
be reached. By digging down to the sewer line and clearing
away all the dirt, the line can now be fully accessed
to install a cleanout. In order to do this, a section
of the old sewer line must first be removed, usually no
more than two feet. Then the new PVC cleanout fitting can be set in with fittings
to adapt from PVC to cast iron. Then the vertical piece
that will run above the ground's surface is installed
to whatever height or depth is necessary (anywhere from
2 feet all the way to over twenty feet). All parts are
secured, and the hole is filled and graded smooth. Plumbing
code now dictates that all new sewer lines be installed
with two cleanouts; one near the house, and one near the
curb.
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