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04-11-2008 Digital Nature - Audiographic Flashbacks 021

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I've been having "adventures in home ownership". Yesterday morning, when I was opening up the windows for the day, I saw something in the yard I'd never seen before. What the hell is it? I went out to take a closer look. Oh shit, literally. There's a sewer pipe access plug there that you can use to run a snake down if needed. It had been buried, I'd never known it was there. Apparently I had an obstruction and the pressure behind it had popped the thing right out of the ground, and of course nasty stuff was puddled all around the hole in the ground.

Okay, I go to Lowes and bought a 1/2in 50ft long plumbers snake and attempted to unclog it. The obstruction was about 7 feet from the septic tank. That's as far as she went, folks. I couldn't get it any further. So when young William got home, I had him try it, with similar results. Must be one hell of a clog, eh?

I knew about where the pipe was, you can clearly see the slight indentation in the ground where they dug the trench to lay it in. I showed him where I believed he should start digging, and I took off for Lowes again to get parts. When I got back, he had it dug up all nice, and had broken the 3/4in line where my aerobic system's air compressor pumps air into the 1st stage of the tank. No biggie, a compression fitting will fix that; I turned off the pump.

Then he went to work and I went to Church. When I got back from Mass, I went back to Lowes and got the compression fitting and a hack saw and went to work. There was a joint right there, so I cut just ahead of the join and a foot and a half behind it. OMFG. The section of pipe I pulled out of there was COMPLETELY blocked with ... get this ... calcium scale! From my hard water! After thinking about it for a while, I realized why. There is obviously a slight low spot there and the water collects and the scale builds up. Nasty. I'd had 1 1/2in of scale in my hot water heater last year when the bottom element went out. I used my shop vac to vacuum the scale out of there before replacing the element.

Oh crap, how do I prevent that from happening again in my sewer line? I don't want to have to dig up the entire line and level it, so I sat there and thought about it for a bit. What is scale? Lime and calcium. It messes up the PH in swimming pools, mine included. What does one do about low PH in your swimming pool? Pool acid. There's my solution. Buy pool acid and pour a cup down that access cover. It will flow down to where the low spot is and react with that collected water, and thus the scale. THAT WILL destroy the lime and calcium in the pipe and won't harm my tank. Problem solved.

God, I'm good. :super::cat:
 
I wonder how much scale is at the bottom of my septic tank? Scary thought. :yikes::cat:
 
When William gets home from work, I'll have him put the new section of pipe in and the compression fitting on the break in the air line and back fill the pit, then we can flush the toilets and take showers again. Woot! :dancing::cat::dancing:
 
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I guess no one owns a house with a septic system, eh?

I rather expected some kind of reaction. Guess not. Ha! :LMAO::cat:
 
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