OnlyinCali
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Long story short, I need to connect a 3" abs sewer line (freshly trenched) to the 2" ABS drain coming from inside the house. I am worried that something will break if the freshly trenched 3" sewer line settles at all. I did 5" of pea gravel below and 6" above the sewer line(all manually compacted every 2").
The problem is, the 2" ABS drain that is inside the house is already complete and cannot be pushed down onto the new 3". It looks like I'm stuck working backwards, from the sewer line, back up to the house drain. This would mean I would have to cram gravel UNDER the pipe AFTER it is glued up. This sounds like a break waiting to happen.... Do you guys have any better methods? Gravel then expanding foam under the pipe? I also thought of just using a 2" fernco but that would have to be buried in the concrete repair work that will be done to the side of the foundation(picture below). Or am I just being paranoid?
The problem is, the 2" ABS drain that is inside the house is already complete and cannot be pushed down onto the new 3". It looks like I'm stuck working backwards, from the sewer line, back up to the house drain. This would mean I would have to cram gravel UNDER the pipe AFTER it is glued up. This sounds like a break waiting to happen.... Do you guys have any better methods? Gravel then expanding foam under the pipe? I also thought of just using a 2" fernco but that would have to be buried in the concrete repair work that will be done to the side of the foundation(picture below). Or am I just being paranoid?
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