Emergency Channel drain Clean out

[@steverusie6986]

Might get some tips from the Drain Addict “Ollie and Ratty” in Australia on jetting! You are the boss on the repair piping to eliminate the high point in the line!

[@CenterStarsChannel]

There is also, Drain Cleaning Korea and Nyc Drains, and one out of the UK and two of them mention Ratty and Ollie and the Korea ones does drains by number. Just thought you might enjoy those other channels.

[@CenterStarsChannel]

I actually found Sean here by watching those other channels 🐀

[@chrissmith3215]

Drain Addict is a good one to watch for jetting.

[@SlackerU]

The root-cutter tip DA uses is like $350 & on over 4k-PSI. He has some of the best pipe-failure examples on YT.

[@GCFD]

Thanks for the tips! I’ll check them out.

[@coenfilm]

Always enjoy watching your jobs whether big or small! You bring peace of mind to many people who don’t know what to do.

[@GCFD]

Thank you!

[@joelsanford]

Need to paint the last like 3' of that hose red or something so you know where the end is, haha!

[@smallengine]

Yeah or out a piece of electrical tape a few feet before then another like a foot away

[@GCFD]

That's a great idea!

[@brianfoster7064]

Like a ship's anchor chain.

[@arnoldromppai5395]

a proper factory sewer hose is blue the last 8 feet. but some rig up there own home made nozzle and just hook it to the end of a hose. many have been badly heut buy being hit, the big danger is like compress air it will punch though your skin and if it hits a vain it will kill you

[@arnoldromppai5395]

@Cristina Heinandez creap

[@robomcfc]

So glad you popped up on my recommended my job is to maintain a very large commercial property. You would think in the UK with all our rain the drainage pipes would be installed correctly. There are 32 buildings on site and all dump the gutter water onto the floor causing alot of standing water. Looks like I'm going to be installing FDs from now on and catching all downpipes.

[@GCFD]

Awesome!

[@MrSk8erbase]

Moved from NC to Alaska and your videos are making me home sick

[@GCFD]

Maybe this time of year James. I love AK in the summer!

[@tnt666tnt]

I had the same thing happen to me with my jetter in my basment while cleaning the weeping tiles out though the sump pit, was a mess of water down there. I hope you get that job too!

[@GCFD]

Thanks Chris!

[@DanBurgaud]

1:48 bad slope? or just clogged pipe?

[@CenterStarsChannel]

I enjoy drain cleaning video's.

[@GCFD]

How did this one measure up? Anything I can improve upon?

[@CenterStarsChannel]

@@GCFD well I found you from watching Drain Addicts with Ollie and his sidekick Ratty. There is also Drain Clean Korea, Drain Cleaning UK, and NYC Drain Cleaning. All because of Ollie and Ratty. You could definitely learn stuff watching him for sure. But I think you did just fine Sean. One tip is run the nozzle through a vacuum pipe shoved into the line you are cleaning if it has sharp edges. So you don't harm your line. Peace

[@weejohnbb]

4,000 subscribers! You'll have 5,000 by May, I think for a celebration you should do a viewers yard for free. I suggest my yard hahaha. Thanks for taking the time during your work day to make these videos, I am learning a ton from them!

[@GCFD]

Thanks for your comment and your support John! It's been exciting!

[@weejohnbb]

@@GCFD keep doing what you're doing, the subscribe rate will rocket exponentially at a certain point, but don't forget those rain event money shots!

[@nova2wl]

Can’t wait for a Post10 crossover episode! Love these vids

[@GCFD]

I've watched a few of his videos but I haven't figured out of he's close to NC.

[@nova2wl]

@@GCFD yeah I think he’s up the coast in the north east!

[@CenterStarsChannel]

Can I suggest a french drain along the wall while you are at it? I don't know how costly that would be. It might actually be the source of the issue given how much dirt is there.

[@CenterStarsChannel]

Oh I see the negative grade is an issue as well.

[@GCFD]

Ha! That's exactly what I was going to do when I said two lines to the street. I just forgot to mention the FD. Niceeee

[@CenterStarsChannel]

@@GCFD well I am learning from you. You take pride in doing a job well done. Hi to Ron and the team. Tell Ron he has fans. My dad is Ronald and my son as well after him.

[@SlackerU]

Maybe I've missed it in a previous vid but I think people need to know when a single-4in is not enough. Here an area like 8:20 would need more than a single-4in (or it looks/seems that way from my DIY experience, though maybe my rainfall is different). One acre here needs dual-6in or a single-8in. The city here allows triple 4in through the curb where homeowners have a CB-discharge to release any surplus that the triple-4in-curb-discharges can't handle.

[@GCFD]

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[@joecina559]

Great video. Thank you for continuing to post awesome content.

[@GCFD]

Thank you Joe! Thanks for continuing to watch and comment! - Shawn

[@Merrill26osu]

Cant tell but if get job is there enough slope to curb to have it all flow correctly?

[@GCFD]

Yes I think we can achieve fall to the curb. I'm a little worried about why their pipe is high in that one spot. I hope there isn't some pipe or something under there.

[@benives254]

Did this guy have you back to fix it properly?

[@GCFD]

I never heard anything else come this place.

[@benives254]

@@GCFD Probably got washed away!

[@larryehrlich57]

Tape or paint an indicator to show you have two or three feet until the nozzle comes out of the pipe.

[@clivewilliams1406]

How many examples of bad building are shown by the video. I could run a lecture series on this!

[@GCFD]

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[@charlesviner1565]

Just subscribed. Thanks for the video. Like 👍

[@GCFD]

Thank you Charles! - Shawn

[@grilnam9945]

I need a time machine so I can skip forward to you getting the contract and showing us how it should have been done.

[@GCFD]

I’m hoping the previous installers were just careless with me later pipe and didn’t ensure that it had fall. The worst case scenario is there is some major utility line where the high spot is in the pipe and they had no choice but to do it that way.

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

@@GCFD In that case, they should have abandoned the large pipe and fed the channel drains into a sump pit so it doesn't matter too much if the drain has a rise in it, the pump will blow the water out anyway...

[@Landofmagic678]

We have water coming in right under our sump pump inlet pipe(2 inch space all around the pipe in the pit), and nothing coming though the inlet pipe, does that mean the inlet pipe is clogged, or is it just because there's space below the pipe?

[@GCFD]

If the inlet pipe is surrounded by gravel all the way to the sump basin the water might not be flooding up high enough to get into the pipe.

[@Landofmagic678]

@@GCFD so seal off the space below the pipe?

[@jonathankiser1036]

Testament to leveling the pipe correctly the first time!! Even if it takes a little longer .

[@GCFD]

For sure! One effort and it works well!

[@cheongyei]

Sad to find sites where the original work was marginally done and the materials are failing. A whole re-do is in order.

[@GCFD]

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[@trucker_rob]

Is there a part 2?

[@GCFD]

I haven't heard back from them.

[@ryanwaltos2206]

great nod to Drain Addict (Ollie) by wearing the orange gloves !

[@GCFD]

We buy those from the plumbing supply house. They're great.

[@musicteacherbuilder]

I see Drain Addict proposed here. Yes, yes, yes! See how he has rotating nozzles which would mean less back and forth chasing things around.

[@GCFD]

He has quite the array of nozzles!

[@musicteacherbuilder]

@@GCFD agreed. Thanks for posting content. You make it easier for property owners to stay informed.

[@thelastengineer2315]

There is a break in that cast iron pipe, probably rusted through at some point.

[@chrissmith3215]

That's exactly what I thought. That would explain why you kept on bringing so much dirt out.

[@GCFD]

@@chrissmith3215 we saw small chunks of pipe coming out as well.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Call me old school and it likely isn't code, but if that was my property and I didn't want to replace the whole line...I'd make a big sump pit in the concrete there where that existing drain is by the house and put a grate over it. The piping for the sump pit...it may be messy and an odd way to do it, but I'd just either run a plastic hose a little smaller than the existing pipe and push it all the way through until about a foot before the street and it would just fly out of there. Or even more odd, just cram some smaller PVC pipe through that green pipe and glue them together as I went until it reached just before the street inside of that green pipe. Either way, the pump would get the water out without having to worry about rise and run. Of course, that's using power, but peace of mind.

[@GCFD]

That would work very well to keep things pumped out and clear.

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

So the drain pipe may have a full bubble... It's just on the wrong side of the level...

[@GCFD]

Haha. Not a good thing for water moving away from the building.

[@kctyphoon]

Razorback shovels = best shovels ever...

[@GCFD]

Agreed!

[@VgniK88]

Can’t wait for when yous do the job properly wen they decide to go ahead

[@GCFD]

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[@DanBurgaud]

3:32 😁😁😁😁😁

[@paulmaddocks4346]

The cast iron pipe is cracked if it’s coming out milky

[@GCFD]

We were also seeing chunks of cast iron coming out of that pipe. Definitely could be replaced.

[@jessiperry60]

they should get it redone then you can cap the top of the ends with concrete

[@GCFD]

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[@igfoobar]

Where are Ollie and Ratty?

[@GCFD]

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[@VgniK88]

Has rising damp very bad

[@GCFD]

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[@musclesmouse]

I’m looking to buy a hydra jet to clean out my French drain.

[@GCFD]

They work very well!

[@arnoldromppai5395]

thats what happens due to the drain line barred so shallow, the frost heave the pipes up and down, specially really bad in clay, as clay never drys, my yard will heave up to 3 feet in places, and go back down when it thaws out, but never back to were it was it take a year for one inch of red clay to dry in the sun. i can dig water lines down 7 feet and the side wall are oozing water as you go though different layers of clay, there always a seam of water between each types of clay layer. i have heard contractors give excuses like. worst case scenario is there is some major utility line where the high spot is in the pipe and they had no choice but to do it that way. witch is total BS. you go under,

[@GCFD]

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[@markwilliams9718]

If you do it right the first time you don't have problems like that

[@GCFD]

👍 There may have been a major utility or something else in the area where the discharge pipes were high. I don't have enough info to explain why the pipe is high in the middle.

[@markwilliams9718]

@@GCFD hey I live in Dallas in a couple of days ago I seen a dump trailer on Facebook marketplace for sale here I know you mentioned you was looking for one maybe it's still available I'm not for sure

[@GCFD]

@@markwilliams9718 thanks for thinking of me!! I found one in TN a couple weeks ago. Got a job for it next week.

[@markwilliams9718]

@@GCFD cool I couldn't remember how long ago that's been glad you got one love the videos

[@robertthompson3447]

PVC vs Corrugated. It is all about the install. If the install is done right, it will never clog or fill with debris.

[@GCFD]

Please do tell how to install corrugated so it won't clog!

[@robertthompson3447]

@@GCFD With a 1/4 to 1/2 bubble incline the turbulence from the corrugation will disturb any sediment in the line. Your head to head video on this subject did not cover real life water flow. Putting a tea spoon of water down each line shows nothing. Also you had a low spot in the line that would not be there in a proper install.

[@donnierobertson3088]

Ok

[@GCFD]

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[@EverydayKindaGuy]

Drain Addict you are not. Definitely no rat hanging around.

[@GCFD]

Haha no lab hanging around either.

[@cmsheth09]

Seemingly simple but deceptively not

[@GCFD]

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