How To Repair Broken Y Tee Drain Pipe In Ground.

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Before you dig, it'due south a bully idea to call Dig Alert.

Prepare an appointment with them and have them come up in and mark the existing utilities. Simply in case you run into an quondam pipe. It's rubber to know that there's a utility present and not assume it's but an quondam abased pipe.

In one case that is done, proceed in digging effectually carefully enough making space to work around broken clay pipe, and clean loose droppings.

Brand a deep pothole 14 inches long x 14 inches wide x and 12 inches deep, right in the center below the cracked pipe, and then that when you lot open the clay piping...the dirty water or sewer gray water goes down below the pipe in the deep pothole and prevent yourself from getting your anxiety dirty.

Cut the roots that caused the break in the first place and or remove palm tree if necessary to preclude futurity sewer breaks.

Dig into the dirt back a few inches abroad from the broken section, and exit plenty space to measure and cut that clay pipe and install pvc sdr 35 or ABS sewer black pipe same outside diameter (O.D.)

Never glue parts in other projects and assume its going in perfectly.

Always dry out fit first, so you lot have an idea of how all dry fittings will fit.

Never gun it, without knowing how the actual connections may fit, or make the error in cutting without measuring the pipe to brusk. Or not having enough pipe to do another cut, or exercise a second run to the hardware store and information technology's getting dark.

Grab your measuring record and measure the finish of one side to the centre of the no hub stainless steel bands coupling rubber fittings, transfer those measurements to the ABS or SRD 35 pvc piping and to the previously square cut dirt piping.

Check pitch autumn with level and make sure all marks marshal with the safe couplings, then enter image description here ...torque to specs.

Allow the water run for a fleck and and bank check for leaks.

After all is checked OK! Backfill 12,14 inches with clean damp sand and carefully meaty around the pipe petty by little. Then the rest of the clay can be covered with make clean soil meaty it to pinnacle of grade and leave a few inches to put the green turf dorsum how it was.

Always make a note and take measurements where the scissure happened and make a pocket-sized drawing or sketch for the near future, in case of replacing the whole sewer or making other repairs to the sewer arrangement.

Very simple job! At that place's nothing to it! Best regards Juan

Expert luck! :)