Sewer Water Test That EMPOWERS Home Owners Before They Buy!
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- Home Buyer BEWARE! Do NOT fall in love with a New House until you know what the heck is under it! There are a lot of Real Estate Agents that will not tell you that you need to do a sewer water test before you BUY! Leave me a comment down below and let me know if you have ever had to get a Sewer Water Test on your home.
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I love Roger because he gets right down to the important sh*t.
He is also one of those guys that makes you want to go to the job site every day and he is cool and fun to be around you can tell by watching his videos and also that is probably why a lot of ppl watch his videos he is a likeable guy and like I said he is deff one of those guys that on your bad days you would say well if Roger isn't there at the site today I'm leaving lmfao.
As a home inspection on New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, I agree with all these statements.
So heartbreaking what it can cost if this is not done before buying. Real estate agents PLEASE do the right thing and strongly recommend this.
Roger, putting 200 psi on a pipe and then hitting it with a 2x4 is dangerous and it can be deadly. I work in the pipeline industry and when we pressure test pipe, everyone stands clear during the hydrostatic pressure check. Great videos and I do enjoy them.
PS, we just recently bought a home and our sewer line was constantly getting clogged. Had multiple plumbers out and after the last clog I called a company out that does Nu-Drain, basically a liner that is 2 part epoxy and is shoved in the sewer line to form a liner in the sewer line. Cost was $75/ft to descale and $125/ft to reline. Is it better than replacing the sewer line, no. But I don't have to deal with the construction that is involved with replacing the sewer line. The sewer line had large cracks with small rocks falling through almost the entire length under the home (cast iron). Total cost was $6,800 and comes with a 10 year warranty.
Sounds pretty solid for a repair. I wonder if that would be code acceptable down where Roger is located at. Re: 200psi and a 2x4. I'm guessing that's the 'new guys' job.... (Just Kidding...)
Let's be clear. "The home owner" doesn't want to find ANY leak. 😂😂😂
Love the videos brother!
Maybe 🤔 the new owner wants to find the leaks !
I'm an apprentice plumber currently and I find great value in your videos Roger, thank you so much for all your hard work.
Same goes with your other utilities electrical and hvac you can have a cracked heat exchanger that's not dumping carbon monoxide into the house so even if a home inspector does a CO reading it may not show anything a new heat exchanger can cost upwards of 1k and a new furnace upwards of 4k an HVAC tech has the equipment to test the furnace and determine if anything needs replaced as a tech myself I've seen it multiple times someone buys a house that was vacant and after moving in and running the furnace they see water on the ground indicating improper drainage or a cracked heat exchanger a furnace has to run for a while before condensation starts building up and leaking out and a home inspector won't always run it long enough to see any issues same goes for you're air conditioner if its low on refrigerant it may not immediately freeze the coil up so it can appear fine until it's used regularly be safe and hire a liscensed tradesman to inspect different parts of the house as Roger said it can save you thousands
is this a huge ad for your company? i don't even live on the states , but i wanna hire you guys
When we install water lines on a slab house we run foam-core sleeves and build manifolds in the wall; instead of tearing out flooring, if it were to ever leak, simply pull the lines out and fish the new ones back through. Plus the sleeves will keep the leak contained and you’ll likely find it much sooner
Thank you! This info is VALUABLE. It also demonstrates honesty in you craft. In the words of Neil Armstrong… “learn plumbing”
Great job!!
Sent this video to my friend who’s ready to buy a house! Thank you!
That and also 3rd party inspectors, not referrined by the real estate agent. But, do research
Luckily I'm from the Midwest and our plumbing is easily accessible it's in the basement.
Hell yea lol
When I bought my house south of Houston, I had a home inspector, water well inspection, septic and sewer line inspection, and a HVAC instpection. Found the foundation was not level, but none of the sewer lines were damaged or leaking. After talking with my real estate agent we settled on having the foundation stabilized. My home inspector checked my water lines, since they are in the attic space, when he was checking the underside of the roof.
This is such a great channel.
You should look into smoke testing for sewer laterals. It is done a lot here and has been great at identifying leaking VCP or otherwise damaged laterals. Typically a utility or municipality will run these tests to identify locations of groundwater getting into the sewer system.
I like that Texas Nebraska football you have in the background. I am a big Nebraska fan. I know you are probably a texas fan and that is a ok not everyone has to like good teams. Lol I am just kidding Nebraska has not been doing good the past few years. But really I do like your videos they are really entertaining to watch.
Most of the houses in my neighborhood had terra cotta type sewer lines put in. they've almost all crushed and broken. many yards have had to be dug up to replace it out to the street. The inside work can be done by opening a hole in the cinder block wall, we have basements
Just bought my first house last month, had a normal home inspection done which checked out. 2 weeks after living there the sewer line in the crawl space under the master bath was completely disconnected at a horizontal 1 1/2" Y perfectly visible. It appeared to be too short to hold together after being glued at one point and simply disconnected. I went down there with a small extension and cemented the gap and works great now. Not sure if I should have done more...
Question, attaching concrete slab and when putting rebar to house foundation, hit a pipe and house foundation leaking
Roger love the videos any chance you have any associates in colorado im about to buy a house in a couple months
Hey roger, they say things are bigger in Texas, I think my mustache is bigger in Jersey. Keep up the good work from a pipe welder an fitter for 41 years
I just bought a house and 2 weeks after moving in the main sewer was backing up. I had to rent a camera and a snake but I got it cleared and everything drains now. Wish I new about this before
I've lived in Norcal all my life and one thing is certain- the ground moves here alright. I think they are just young and didn't know. But with all the quake faults and wet to dry seasons no house is level. No room is square and all concrete and stucco cracks.
Don't feel too bad for them the house's here in Cali usually go for $600,000+
This info is like finding a gold nugget. Thank you Sir.
Californian's moving to Texas? Whaaaat? 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳...
Escape from L.A. is becoming a reality.
I'm from southern Ontario Canada. I'd love to know why we don't use two way cleanouts?
Since tracking lines is so important and metal ones are easier to find and metal pipe is so expensive, has anyone thought of a jacketed/metal embedded PVC?
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Or do they already have that?
can always just add a tracer wire
I live in a townhouse with six attached houses and I am on the very end I had a problem where the upstairs toilets would clog and not flush but the bottom ones would flush no problem plumber came out snaked 100 ft or so and still couldn't find the issue finally he went out to the side of the house and the pump house was clogged he attempted to open up the cleanout and a 10-ft stream of crap came up he then hydrojetted the line and all is good now but the weird part is the bottom toilet was flushing and the top were not
How does one find the pipes, valves , and clean outs on their property? With out calling in a plumber for this info
Roger can you please explain the Rør-i-Rør system.... Is it better than the US plumbing systems?
I'm the owner of THOMPSON plumbing in Georgia I'm really interested in tunneling under the houses to perform sewer repairs .. the only hangup I keep thinking of is what's the process you use to put the dirt back and making sure everything is stable
Here in Texas (or at least in my area of Texas) most of the company’s i know of including ours uses “flowable fill” to fill the tunnels, with some top soil on top near the tunnel access, the flowable fill is pumped in with a big tube to the back of the tunnel and fills from the back to the front and hardens to a concrete type hardness, its always better to check with the local inspectors because I’ve had a few shallow tunnels that they wanted us to backfill and pack the excavated soil instead of using flowable fill...but flowable fill is used like 95%of the time
So to avoid all of these issues. Is it just better to buy to build a new home?
I don’t want to have to deal with these issues.
Just buy a home that had a crawl space or an actual basement. The problems he is talking about in the videos are for homeowners who have slab foundation homes
My realtor discouraged the "hydrostatic test" because if the test caused damage, it would be up to me to pay for fixing it. Your work in educating North Texas Realtors on the value and risk is still incomplete, and please help convince the Realtors to change the name on their forms. A neighbor who just moved into my subdivision was hit with a surprise sewer leak repair. Other people in the neighborhood have paid between 11k and 31k. I'm sure my time is coming.
The other secret of Texas Real Estate is that any inspections done in the last 5 years have to be available to buyers (it might be a Realtor rule). So, if you find a house you like where there was an offer which fell through, ask to see the prior inspection report before making an offer, there may be defects which make you decide to pass. Some sellers may not want to pay to fix a leaking sewer and hope that the next buyer doesn't ask for prior reports or ask to do a leak test.
Home Inspections are sight only. If there is a problem later the Home Inspector company returns the $500 charge and buyer is stuck with expensive repair costs
Any major differences between your water sewer test with floats vs a smoke test and fernco caps?
Do you need a clean out to perform a hydrostatic test?
My dad used to say "check check double check re-check and check check". No he was not a plumber.
My cousin had a copper hot water pipe leak in or under the slab, not sure which. It was a large 1970s home in Austin, TX. I previously converted her dining room into a home theater room. Later on, her carpet started developing a wet spot in that room. I thought, oh no, I shot a nail into a pipe when I built the new wall. We pulled the carpet back and I could feel a hot spot on that area when walking on it barefoot. There were some really small cracks in the concrete. Plumbers came out and cut the copper pipe above the water heater and capped it off and left it. They then connected a PEX pipe onto the pipe they cut that came out of the water heater. They ran that PEX line up into the attic and down into all of the fixtures of the house, capping all of the copper pipe where they had to cut it.
That’s called a reroute
I’ll do 100 reroutes before tunneling underneath a house
@@princesalahadeen5798 It did the trick and they didn't have to chop up the concrete or dig under the house and it was way cheaper.
@@miguelvera3351 and that would have sucked because the leak was smack dab in the middle of the house.
BC ElginTex reroutes are the preferred way of doing it only time it will be a issue is if that manifold is on a outside wall and you have vaulted ceilings in the attic
I am curious about how a sewer water leak test is done on a NEW build. Once the slab edge forms are up, and the plumber installs the sewer lines under the future concrete slab, what is the process for checking if there are any leaks? Do they simply run a garden hose to the tallest stub-up, cap all the lower stub-ups and fill the system with water? If that's the case, there is no pressure put on the system, right? How do you tell if there are leaks? Just give it time to show itself in wet areas in the dirt? If there is no pressure on the system, it would simply drain out of the leak due to gravity. It would not squirt out.
Please let me know if I am understanding this process. Thanks!
You are about right. We don’t pressurize the system. We fill it and make sure it doesn’t leak. That’s it….
I bought a house and had the service line rupture under the cross walk about a week after my warranty expired, and in the middle of a graduation party I was throwing my fiance. Having 40 people over and no running water was not a fun experience.
Legally Real Estate Agents are only paid for the 13 pages of the contract. REAgents ARE NOT licensed in anything else. It is the RE Agent responsibility to tell buyer to get specialist s several to inspect the house.
That’s why I buy a house with a crawl space or basement! Haha
Even in crawl spaces and basements you can't see majority of potential huge problems. But that being said, I agree.
Unfortunately the majority of homes in Texas are slabs. And with the way these new houses are slapped together, slab leak repair is gonna be big money here soon.
@@Jasonrotfl I'm not a plumber but with the rebar with tension, assuming in grid pattern how does fixing it or hell ruff in even work? Do they add some sort of flexible membrane over the pipes just in case the pipes move and cracks?
@@MrFriday83 All the plumbing is run from the mains and then they lay the post tension in, then pour the slab. If it moves you get a slab leak. My parents got one and they terminated the pipes in the slab and ran all the water in the attic.
@@Jasonrotfl Jesus.thanks for the info. I knew it was silly of me to hope there was was a better contingency plan than that.
That 90 psi pressure on the water gauge you showed is a bit too high.
90 is high er than average, but normal for many places.
30 is low for residential water.
Working lawn irritation we ran into some homes getting 120 psi from the water main. We put in pressure regulators to bring those down to 90 psi.
@@fhuber7507 by code anything over 80 psi is supposed to be reduced
Why am I watching this? I'm 13🤦♂️
Next door neighbor has a slab keep that's being repaired now.
To be fair If the top of a sewer line has a hole or crack that’s so small you don’t find it with a camera.. or even a bigger noticeable hole on the top of the pipe, the wastewater is not going to leak out unless the line is clogged and backed up
But shit im not hating on selling that $14k job
Why would it cost $60K that is ridiculous....it does not cost that much here in the most expensive state in the country California!
I didnt do the sewer test. 2 month after moving in, I had a 16k worth of repair. So homebuyer, please do the sewer test before buying.
abit off tapic but the "mybot" is very uh needs work and your links dont work...
Why would you not just turn the electric off to the water heater
That looked like a camera to me buddy..
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Who would press dislike on this? 🤦♂️
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I wish he made this video a year ago. Bought a $150k (Dream first house). Had a finished basement which has now been destroyed for foundation work. Currently on my second new sewer line $14k for this one. and a $46k foundation job. Very expensive learning curve.
Ya unless there is something big I would think a camera would be slightly more than useless
I don’t get it, why wouldn’t houses in Texas have basements?
Most of Texas is on clay and the ground shifts too much for basements to be supported.
Is it just me or did anyone else think it said sewer water taste test for a moment?
I will never buy a slab home, you won’t know it’s leaking until so much damage
60k for a repipe?? Hell, ill do it for 48k. no questions asked
Depends on the ammount, size and location of the pipes you smartass
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Ya I don't know that I care because they were from california don't ruin our state