From: amdx@knologynotthis.net   
      
   On 2/5/2013 11:42 AM, j wrote:   
   > On 2/3/2013 6:17 PM, Morris Dovey wrote:   
   >> On 2/3/13 11:53 AM, j wrote:   
   >   
   > OT for a moment...   
   >   
   > My sewer line here is blocked, I've tracked it with great difficulty, by   
   > digging and looking. It takes a right into my backyard and then another   
   > right so it circles the house.   
   >   
   > So, I found the line is blocked between the sidewalk and the street. So,   
   > we dug down and struck... the new (and unused) gas line, 6" under that   
   > the crushed sewer pipe.   
   >   
   > I call the city at 3PM and they tell me to file a damage report with the   
   > gas company. However at 5PM someone from the city shows up and says the   
   > city will fix it by Sunday.   
   >   
   > Just now, someone came out and marked the water and sewer lines, the   
   > ones that I had no idea where. I've never seen anything like it, he had   
   > a collapsible metal divining rod and just walked across the pavement. It   
   > snapped to the side and he marked. In fact, he marked all the water and   
   > sewer lines, just like that, in no time. And it matches exactly.   
   >   
   > So, I am thoroughly impressed with the speed and psychic powers of this   
   > city!   
   >   
   >    
   >   
     Still OT.   
      If you can tell your sewer line story I can tell mine.   
      
   My drains were running slow, I tried drain cleaners, snaking from   
   in the house, nothing helped. I needed to bite the bullet, and spend a   
   weekend digging up the yard and installing a clean out so I could snake   
   the run to the road.   
     I got a 3 ft piece of 1/4" rod and poked the ground to locate and mark   
   where the sewer line ran. I started digging early Saturday morning, on   
   my third shovel I hit the pipe, on the fourth I saw a brass clean out plug.   
      
   Eureka!!   
      
   There is a clean out I didn't now about, and I hit it in 4 shovels. I   
   removed the plug (destroying it), went and rented the power snake   
   and bought a new plug. By noon I was done. If I had started digging a   
   foot closer to the road I would have missed the clean out and spent the   
   weekend digging.   
     The clean out is well marked, now.   
                               Mikek   
      
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