A first for me
Been a while since I've posted. Guess I've been too busy making money😁
Anyway, had a customer who waited a week for me after reading my reviews who had a 1st floor half bath toilet gurgle just a little when it flushed. Asked me to clean and camera the main. Sure, no problem.
Cabled main, camera. Nothing, clean as a whistle. Both clean outs clean and open to the city. Put camera back towards house (slab home) took the 2nd right towards the only first floor toilet found a couple roots tangles, couldn't get any further with camera. So we pull said toilet and find this little gem.
The flange actually split laterally (horizontally under the ring) and roots grew into it, found a steady source of water and just kept growing. There's actually a matrix of roots growing into the wax ring (also a first for me)
The main trunk growing down into the sewer was about thumb thickness and the horse tail was a good 5 and a half feet long.
Re-camera the line and it's perfectly clean and intact. No intrusion or breaks anywhere else besides the closet flange.
Replaced with stainless steel ringed flange, anchored into concrete, new angle stop (ball valve style) braided steel supply line, and new toilet (10 inch rough no less) and that's a full days work gang.
Anyway, had a customer who waited a week for me after reading my reviews who had a 1st floor half bath toilet gurgle just a little when it flushed. Asked me to clean and camera the main. Sure, no problem.
Cabled main, camera. Nothing, clean as a whistle. Both clean outs clean and open to the city. Put camera back towards house (slab home) took the 2nd right towards the only first floor toilet found a couple roots tangles, couldn't get any further with camera. So we pull said toilet and find this little gem.
The flange actually split laterally (horizontally under the ring) and roots grew into it, found a steady source of water and just kept growing. There's actually a matrix of roots growing into the wax ring (also a first for me)
The main trunk growing down into the sewer was about thumb thickness and the horse tail was a good 5 and a half feet long.
Re-camera the line and it's perfectly clean and intact. No intrusion or breaks anywhere else besides the closet flange.
Replaced with stainless steel ringed flange, anchored into concrete, new angle stop (ball valve style) braided steel supply line, and new toilet (10 inch rough no less) and that's a full days work gang.
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