BLOCK STORM WATER DRAIN.

[Roverlord off road spares]

Our old teracottta storm water pipes got blocked causing water to overflow out of 1 of the pits. I called a company and some one came a couple days later and ran a camera and high pressure water blast along the length of the drain. He found some sections had dropped and water was trapped there. and a section of tree roots. He spray painted marks on the lawn where the issues were , and the company sent me a video of the entire pipe length. The video has measurements from the pit to the fault , saves a lot of blind digging to repair.

https://youtu.be/-eA8kXMTqzk

[V8Ian]

Better than a colonoscopy. [bigwhistle]

[Roverlord off road spares]

Better than a colonoscopy. [bigwhistle]
COLON YOU GET A MEDICARE REBATE THOUGH

[V8Ian]

COLON YOU GET A MEDICARE REBATE THOUGH
I think I'd rather pay the pipe doctor, Mario. :eek2:

[bblaze]

I got a 1/2 acre blocck witha alot of storm water pipes. Had a back flush that fooded thhe back section of my house. $6000 damage first time and a bit less thesecond time a month apart. Aafter running the camera up all my pipes and found to be all clear apart from a little bit grass root. It turned out that the council (shire) pipes were blocked annd the water wass running downthe road anddown my driveway grated sump annd backing up in my pipes. I have a BIL who is a counciler and he couldnt even get me anny sort of comp, I was only after $400 x 2, one for each claim
cheers
blaze

[350RRC]

I got a 1/2 acre blocck witha alot of storm water pipes. Had a back flush that fooded thhe back section of my house. $6000 damage first time and a bit less thesecond time a month apart. Aafter running the camera up all my pipes and found to be all clear apart from a little bit grass root. It turned out that the council (shire) pipes were blocked annd the water wass running downthe road anddown my driveway grated sump annd backing up in my pipes. I have a BIL who is a counciler and he couldnt even get me anny sort of comp, I was only after $400 x 2, one for each claim
cheers
blaze

Use a different BIL.

DL

[bblaze]

Use a different BIL.

DL
trouble is he is the only one that is a couciler, at least he had them digging up the road on tthe sAME DAY
cheERS
blaze

[Roverlord off road spares]

interesting the the out let pit is in the neighbours front yard near the boundary corner my more on his side.

[1950landy]

A few weeks ago our new neighbour two houses up who is getting a pool installed needed to pump rain water out of the shell so they pumped in in there closes storm water pipe & the water started coming out of the next door neighbour's retaining wall into our back yard . I went & stopped the workers & told them to pump it into the gutter in the street. I told the workers to let the house owner know . Few days later I went & asked the owner what he was doing about it ( they had not told him so he said) 3 weeks latter the water was still coming into out yard every time it rained , so spoke to him again to be told he had had a plumber in & the problem was in the back yard of the house between his house & ours so was not his problem & I needed to speak to our next door neighbour. 2 months on & the water still coming when it rains. I keep telling him to get a leak detector guy in to stick a camera down his drain but he thinks if he just puts the down pipe onto a water tank that will solve the problem not thinking there could be up to 6 other down pipes feeding the drain & the overflow from the tank needs to go somewhere. Think he is just trying to get out of it as cheap as possible & may be there is a problem with the pool , it's been over 6 months & pool still has not been filled & the builder took his signs away 2 months ago.

Few years ago we has a possum go down one of our down pipes & then got stuck in the storm water pipe between the garage & street ended up having to dig up the pipe & replace it .

[mylesaway]

Better than a colonoscopy. [bigwhistle]

Yeah, and don't forget to have a copy of "War and Peace" in the karzi after you have taken the 'prep' solution!...or a TV monitor..[bawl]

[Toxic_Avenger]

Getting our ceramics dug up and replaced in a few weeks. similar issue with ours- Root ingress and some minor cracking. Even with a lot of the work done by me, still an $8K job. I dislike the bill, but I dislike the job even more.

We did have success with a vapor-root herbicide foam they injected into the pipes- kept the roots at bay for a guaranteed 12mths.
Cracked and dropped pipes like yours are the killer, as the sewerage collects there, becomes like a rally gross paper mache, and it snowballs from there.

[Roverlord off road spares]

if l was well enough l'd would have hired a trencher and trenched and laid new plastic myself.

[350RRC]

Always check the sharpness of the teeth on a trencher if you're hiring one or you might be hiring it for double the time.

DL

[Roverlord off road spares]

Always check the sharpness of the teeth on a trencher if you're hiring one or you might be hiring it for double the time.

DL
I hired on earlier in the year to replace the old water supply line, had a mate operate it, but if I was to do it again I would have hire an excavator. The hire place I've used isn't open on Sundays so a weekend hire means pick up Sat early and return Monday morning. . I've hire a stump grinder and did 7 stumps or a fraction of the cost of getting a tree mob to it, as they charged something like 100+ a stump.

2.1 ton excavator (Vertical Digging System) Hire Melbourne | Carnegie Equipment Hire (https://www.carnegierental.com.au/category/mini-excavators-hire-attachments/21-ton-excavator-vertical-digging-system)


different sized machines are available

you can do lot of work in a week end for $350 and plastic storm water pipe isnt expensive.

[Tombie]

Getting our ceramics dug up and replaced in a few weeks. similar issue with ours- Root ingress and some minor cracking. Even with a lot of the work done by me, still an $8K job. I dislike the bill, but I dislike the job even more.

We did have success with a vapor-root herbicide foam they injected into the pipes- kept the roots at bay for a guaranteed 12mths.
Cracked and dropped pipes like yours are the killer, as the sewerage collects there, becomes like a rally gross paper mache, and it snowballs from there.

We got a similar quote years ago.

Grabbed a teaspoon digger, dropped into the local Reese plumbing and grabbed the PVC needed and did it in a day.

Cost was sub $1k - and a heap of fun!