What Caused This??????????

Egon · Jan 18, 2011

Frost +1:thumbsup:

slowzuki · Jan 18, 2011

Was broken since new / since before slab was poured or froze. Not gonna break buried sch 40 with an auger.

dieselscout80 · Jan 18, 2011

Egon said:
Frost +1:thumbsup:

Back home in Montana yes, but here in South Carolina????

RadarTech · Jan 18, 2011

dieselscout80 said:
Back home in Montana yes, but here in South Carolina????

howdy neighbor...
yeah--- I agree with others.. I think it was bad when installed...

J

allenr · Jan 18, 2011

Thanks for the pics of the problem and the repair.

Sure looks a tough job getting to the problem.

I'm not familiar with the part/s used in the repair (I'm in Australia) - looks to be a piece of hose clamped on each end but what are the pieces in between, in particular the flat thing in the middle?

Brad_Blazer · Jan 19, 2011

No way would that freeze under a basement in SC .

The "rubber" couplings are available here in any home/lumber center. Sometimes they are called no-hub couplings because similar couplings are used to join no-hub cast iron drain pipe.
Shop pipe coupling at Lowes.com
For smaller pipe they sell repair couplings with a compression fitting on each end that will slip over the pipe.

MUELLER STREAMLINE 1-1/4 In. Pvc Irrigation Compression Repair Coupling - 160-106HC at The Home Depot

2manyrocks · Jan 19, 2011

To me, it looks like it got snagged with a backhoe tooth, also. That's a pretty big chunk.

Egon · Jan 19, 2011

Back home in Montana yes, but here in South Carolina????

A location that I'm obviously not familiar with!

Gary Fowler · Jan 19, 2011

It is amazing what a contractor will cover up to avoid a minor cost that may cost the owner several hundred later to fix. My previous home had a sewer line that stopped up occassionally for several years, usually at the worst time. Finally I had a plumber run a camera down it and find the culprit. The power company had hit it with a ditchwitch and knocked a small hole in it which they just covered with a piece of plastic oil can. This kept the dirt out but allowed roots to grow into the pipe which would eventually stop it from flowing. A quick rotorooter and it was back going again but was a pain to keep doing about once a year. They knew they had damaged it, and just covered their mistake. Same thing happened with my UG power cables to the same house. It was a vacant lot on one side and while I was living in Canada, they built a house and the power company came in with their ditchwitch and trenched for his cable to connect up at the same junction box. Being too lazy to hand dig around the J box, they just started trenching too far back and knocked all the insulation off one of my 2/0 main feed cables which allowed the current to drain into the ground. I had 110V power but when I turned on the range, all the lights would dim. I had a little trouble convincing the builder of the house next door to replace over 200 feet of 2/0 cable but when I produced the chewed off portion, he agreed to fix it for free. I still had to pay the power company $100 for renting a temp. cable for a month before the builder could get it fixed. This was a $2000 repair that I came close to having to eat.