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Author:
nightal (KY)
I have two copper lines that appear to be soft copper and are maybe 1/2"o.d. coming into my basement thru the wall right next to my septic line that goes out. We have started to have problems with water sneeking into the basement over that way in that past 2 years. It isn't all the time and it extreamly hard to trace due to the fact it is a finished basement and has 2 by 4 studs and the water is running behind the bottom plate. We know we have a cracked waste line out from the house as the septic guy had to run a auger thru it once to get a root out of it. We now have PVC lines all the way thru the house to the cast iron going out thru the wall but don't know if we need the whole thing replaced. HELP!
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Author:
packy
if the water coming thru the wall smell like sewer etc, then it is the drain to the septic tank leaking or it could be the septic tank itself ???
if the water is clear and doesn't smell, it is ground water.
as for the 2 copper tubes sticking thru the wall ????
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Author:
Alan Muller (DE)
This is not the easiest question to understand. My first thought was: supply and return lines to an underground oil tank?
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Author:
hj
The line from the house to the septic tank should NOT have a crack in it, but sometimes roots enter the tank where the pipe is connected or at the point where the pipe from the house is connected to it.
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Author:
nightal (KY)
well , I was told by the septic tank man that he found pieces of old clay pipe in the stuff he brought out with the auger so he said that old type needs upgrading. The two copper pipes I am talking about are side by side touching and the come in about 1 inch from the septic line and are bent to a 90deg. and go down to just about 3 inches from the floor and go right back into the wall at about a 45 deg. . They hug the wall the whole way down
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Author:
LemonPlumber (FL)
I would go along with them being oil supply and return pipes where is your tank?when the clay cast iron was changed out what effort if any was made to moisture seal the foundation???Digging up around this penetration of out side may not sound like fun but probably bets tearing down the walls to find you have to do it anyway.
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Good Luck. Insulate your hot piping, although costly, it will pay you back every day.
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Author:
nightal (KY)
The old terra cotta piping was never changed out but I am hoping to remedy that in the coming weeks. As far as the oil tank I don't know that we have an oil tank out there but if it is it is buried out there somewere close to the house because the septic tank is about 15 ft away from the house. I just can't understand why the copper lines would come in and got straight down the wall and then back into the wall at the bottowm
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Author:
Shoemaker2 (MA)
Post a photo of the tubing...
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Author:
Alan Muller (DE)
Did this property ever have oil heat? There are lots of improperly-abandoned underground tanks around. If oil has leaked into the soil you can get into serious money for a cleanup. This might be something to deal with if you'll be bringing a backhoe on site for the septic line.
It's not unusual for oil lines to come in, run down the wall, and head over to the burner via a mortared-over trench in the basement floor. Could this be what you have?
Do you have a well? You don't want oil or sewage in yr drinking water.
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Author:
Paul48 (CT)
Is your current heating system oil-fired? If so, where is the tank you are using now?
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Author:
nightal (KY)
I am not sure if this house ever had oil furnace or not. I have lived here for 25 yrs and there was an older gas fired furnace here when we moved here. I will make sure to have the plumbers look at this when they replace my line to the septic tank. I have read about horror stories involving old inground oil tanks.
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