You can just see the top of the drain pipe sticking out to the left of the shadow.
The contractor that built this addition had a little decorative box there so I never saw this until now. It lasted through two winters with that little box and a bale of straw that was put there for unrelated reasons, but I feel like that was dumb luck.
What would you do? Keeping in mind a tear-out and replace is out of the question before spring now.
Thanks,
5 Comments
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 316d
I'm a plumber.
"Exposed" as in open to the air? I can't tell from the picture.
Is that perhaps the clean out access? I suppose not, since it was covered.
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 316d
Not a plumber, but recently had my sewer line replaced: looks like a cleanout, but hard to tell from what is visible.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 314d
Apologies for the bad photo. Any chance you have some advice with the newly cropped one?
My current plan is to wrap it in a bunch of rockwool for the winter and then dig out the whole drain line to see if it can be done better.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 316d
Yeah the top 2-in of a 6-in drain pipe are sticking out of the ground fully exposed to the air. I'll get a better picture as soon as I'm done driving.
It is not a clean out. It goes directly to the bottom of the toilet where everything else joins the septic system.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 315d
cropped: