Why is it everytime I watch TV, the toilet backs up?

[WorthFlorida]

This picture was taken and posted on Facebook this week by dear friends of ours in Wellington, Fl. Lately they were having drain issues and they called the village. With some fancy tools (as the wife stated) they dug up the correct location. This 600 home community was built up during the late 1990's. As with many projects, wiezels are used to bury cable and conduit. No idea when this was done but during the that time many cable companies upgraded the coax or switch to fiber. The fix was the drain was cut, the cable was pushed down and the section of drain pipe was replaced. This is Florida so no frost line to worry about. It may be only two feet down.

For plumbers, don't be in such a rush to send a power auger down the pipe, it might ruin your tool.

 

[Sylvan]

I came across a case like this and the plumber used a snake to clear a stoppage not knowing some moron placed fiberoptics though a sewer pipe

I testified the plumber was not at fault it was the moron who cut the sewer line

 

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[WorthFlorida]

With millions of homes connected through coax or fiber, I'm sure this has happened many times.

 

[Jeff H Young]

Gas lines too! That's scarey they bore right through sewer with gas lines.

 

[WorthFlorida]

gas lines too! that's scary they bore right through sewer with gas lines.

Just last week a crew burying a new conduit using a horizontal boring machine cut through a AT&T fiber cable to our 3000 plus home community. They knocked out three schools with most kids ZOOMing for classes, and like my son and wife working from home was a lost day.

 

[Terry]

My mothers clay line had a gas line through it. My friend Gary Amos snaked the line from a cleanout in the yard, and cut the gas line. The gas company had to come out and fix their line, and we wound up replacing that section of pipe.

Years later the gas company starting warning plumbers to check for that.
They now call it a cross bore.

 

[Jeff H Young]

I've received bulletins by a local gas supplier warning us of these screw ups

 

[WorthFlorida]

Wow, all the more reason that a plumber must have a camera scope before using an auger?

 

[Sylvan]

Wow, all the more reason that a plumber must have a camera scope before using an auger?

Using a camera in a totally blocked sewer is useless as all they will see is water and toilet paper

 

[Sylvan]

If the building has a running trap and even if the gas line is punctured the gas will most likely go towards the main sewer/septic tank