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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 583798" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>Oh lord yes.</p><p></p><p>Previous owners were trying to remodel. They were sure Trying, that's for certain. Laminate all over the house - including the kitchen and THE BATHROOM. The bathroom where the shower flooded over pretty regularly, and the septic that was overloaded and breaking through the toilet's wax seal...</p><p></p><p>I'm in charge of septic and under-house plumbing. Why? Because I'm the smallest adult in the house, that's why. On the job education, no joke. January our septic froze from under the house (the skirting is, I kid you not, aluminum sheets propped against the house with 2x4's) clear out to the tank and drain field. Where the main came out from under the house, it was "insulated" with some shag carpet remnants. Right where the roof's drip line hit the dirt. I actually, literally, had to saw the frozen poop pipe open, dig a trench from just under the house to a straw-filled open pit next to the house, then go under the house with a heat gun for two hours, NOT set the house on fire and thaw out the septic to the trench - then wait another 2 weeks for the weather to warm up and thaw the system.</p><p></p><p>For some reason the piping does a weird arabesque-like zigzag under the house, as though they decided to just use whatever scraps they had to connect to the main run to the tank. Which made my job take twice as long as I had twice as much linear pipe as there needed to be.</p><p></p><p>Yes, we are doing a bunch of corrective renovation on the electric - man, you should have seen it when Blacksmith found that the shower handle was drawing 3 volts! NOT FUN. And I will be digging up the septic, figuring out how to deal with tree roots (it goes alongside a huge cottonwood, then turns and passes a mulberry - WHO DESIGNED THIS SYSTEM???) and probably shortening the entire run by 2/3, with bidirectional ports every 40 feet (our septic ram is a 50 foot long tool of the gods, I have to use it roughly once a month to shove gaps past the roots and accretions) - and with dirt and straw piled high enough that we need never worry about frozen lines again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 583798, member: 15907"] Oh lord yes. Previous owners were trying to remodel. They were sure Trying, that's for certain. Laminate all over the house - including the kitchen and THE BATHROOM. The bathroom where the shower flooded over pretty regularly, and the septic that was overloaded and breaking through the toilet's wax seal... I'm in charge of septic and under-house plumbing. Why? Because I'm the smallest adult in the house, that's why. On the job education, no joke. January our septic froze from under the house (the skirting is, I kid you not, aluminum sheets propped against the house with 2x4's) clear out to the tank and drain field. Where the main came out from under the house, it was "insulated" with some shag carpet remnants. Right where the roof's drip line hit the dirt. I actually, literally, had to saw the frozen poop pipe open, dig a trench from just under the house to a straw-filled open pit next to the house, then go under the house with a heat gun for two hours, NOT set the house on fire and thaw out the septic to the trench - then wait another 2 weeks for the weather to warm up and thaw the system. For some reason the piping does a weird arabesque-like zigzag under the house, as though they decided to just use whatever scraps they had to connect to the main run to the tank. Which made my job take twice as long as I had twice as much linear pipe as there needed to be. Yes, we are doing a bunch of corrective renovation on the electric - man, you should have seen it when Blacksmith found that the shower handle was drawing 3 volts! NOT FUN. And I will be digging up the septic, figuring out how to deal with tree roots (it goes alongside a huge cottonwood, then turns and passes a mulberry - WHO DESIGNED THIS SYSTEM???) and probably shortening the entire run by 2/3, with bidirectional ports every 40 feet (our septic ram is a 50 foot long tool of the gods, I have to use it roughly once a month to shove gaps past the roots and accretions) - and with dirt and straw piled high enough that we need never worry about frozen lines again. [/QUOTE]
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