Ardenwood · Sewer · 2 days
Ardenwood sewer lateral
The third backup in a year. The camera found roots at every clay joint and a belly near the fence. Sixty feet of lateral replaced by open trench, because of the belly, with a new two-way clean-out at the house and a tie-in to the city main inspected by Fremont.
- Duration
- 2 days on site · 1 day locating and camera before
- Size
- 60 ft of 4 in lateral · 2 clean-outs
- Permit
- City of Fremont sewer lateral permit, open-trench inspection before backfill
See how the work progresses
Before, during, finished.
The first frame is the room as we found it; the last is the photo we texted on the final day.
What went in
Parts and tests.
- Pipe4 in ABS, solvent-welded, bedded in sand
- FallQuarter inch per foot, checked with a laser
- Clean-outsTwo-way at the house, one at the property line
- Tie-inFlexible coupling at the city main
- BackfillCompacted in lifts, lawn relaid
- RecordFinal camera footage kept on file
Before / after
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Compare the starting point with the finished work.
“Two days, and the lawn looked like nothing happened. The camera footage of the old pipe was horrifying.”
Service: Drains & sewer