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Old 10-31-2009, 10:20 PM
 
Location: Seattle area
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Nasty Halloween night surprise, sewage backup. Plumber comes out and says there's no cleanout.

Houses built Eastside in 1978 -- shouldn't they have a cleanout?! I know codes vary historically and by region, anybody have any experience with this around here??
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Old 11-01-2009, 12:20 AM
 
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I had a sewer backup problem 15 years ago, and it was horrible!
15 years ago and the memory of that smell and appearance are all too vivid, so I sympathize, lemme tell you.
Yes, house should have a sewage cleanout, and most of them do. Even older homes have usually seen plumbing updating, and have had cleanouts installed.
But...there are certain times when they were building houses like crazy...Eastside late 1970's to mid 1980's they were just slapping a lot of these houses up rather quickly and not paying attention to every detail they were supposed to. I can't seem to find in the King County codes when cleanouts became mandatory in new construction, but it was 1973 in most of California...
Hope things look and smell better for you soon.
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Old 11-01-2009, 12:36 AM
 
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Wow, what a bummer... But if you don't have a cleanout, they are fairly easy to install. Are your pipes concrete, plastic, metal or... ???
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