A small update from a few days ago. To save you a click, it turns out that if you apply PVC cement and don’t push the pipes together you won’t actually make a good joint. Who knew.
I’m honestly impressed it lasted so long without issues. We’ve lived in this house over 10 years and the PVC run predates our purchase.
As a side note, PVC repair couplers are a massive PITA. I am glad I didn’t have to dig a fresh trench, get the old pipe out, and put a new one in, but it was quite the dance getting the coupler on while fighting with 2" OD pipe that’s firmly lodged in clay. My nice small hole grew a bit longer to get some wiggle room.
I’ve never had the pleasure beyond a simple snake, but when I studied for my wastewater collections licences we had to memorize the names of the tools. Here is an assortment for laterals:
There is so much behind that seems like such a simple task. Very cool pictures, thanks for sharing!
There is no end to the problems I’ve solved in old plumbing just using a double bar corkscrew snake and an adjustable foot jack…