Cast Iron Pipes with Gooey Stalactites

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Suzanne Vorlicek

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Here's the background: I have a long pipe in the ceiling of my garage. It's a detached garage with a small one bedroom apartment above it. All the plumbing for that apartment is on the ceiling of the garage. I am told the apartment was built around 1970.

There is a pipe about 4 or 5 inches in diameter made of some kind of metal (iron?), that's about 15 feet long. It's got these gooey rusty stalactites dripping all along the length of it. I have pics below. Is this a real problem? Are these pipes OK to get snaked out whenever they get clogged? I am worried they might be fragile. Are they reaching the end of their life? Should I have them replaced?

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There was a TV ad back in the '60s that advised: "Once in every week, Drano in every drain." Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all.
 
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