Recent content by Greal

We're looking down the drain after I removed the drain cover. The pipe should drain to the left, but there is just a blind end.

Where are you located? If that is an exterior wall, I'd expect it to be much worse in the colder months when the cold wall encourages condensation.

I'm inclined to dig it up since it is completely collapsed so that I can show any prospective plumber the situation... or possibly replace the pipes myself. I feel like I get astronomical estimates when a tradesman can't see the problem and has to guess about the extent of the damage.

So I'm guessing that I just had a terra cotta pipe that collapsed. It is hard to see in the pics, but at the level of the water there is an indentation to the left with a slit-like opening where I can feel concrete. There is a similar opening at the lip that you can see in red. I can't feel...

Last week I ran my washing machine, which drains into a pipe in a finished basement wall. For the first time, the water backed up into the floor drain. I snaked through the wall drain and it now drained fine for 1 load. When I vacuumed the drain I found a blind end in concrete with a small...