Bob from accounting
Member
Recently hydro jetted a 60 year old 4" 70' cast iron pipe.
Descaled about 30lbs of debris.
I was shocked that this debris was just pushed down the way into the city sewer.
The clean out the hydro jet went down into was like a Z shaped entrance. There was no chance of the debris exiting out of the pipe as it would have to travel up 3' through two 90s.
So this brings me to:
1) Pushing all this iron descale and sludge out to the 6" city line must not be a good idea.
2) Thinking of solutions, has anyone used a flexible vacuums hose that can fit down a 3" clean out, go through a Z bend and then suck up 30lbs of descale instead of kicking it all down to the city? Maybe something that can go 10' long?
Shop Vac might not fit? and may not be long enough? Maybe Curious if there is some economical way to clean up all the heavy iron chips and loose pipe debris that occurs from hydro jetting. Just tough to get down into the pipe. I just hate seeing all that heavy debris get pushed down the line into the city sewer? Seem like too much heavy debris to go sit down stream from me? Not like is going to move for the next 100 years.
Descaled about 30lbs of debris.
I was shocked that this debris was just pushed down the way into the city sewer.
The clean out the hydro jet went down into was like a Z shaped entrance. There was no chance of the debris exiting out of the pipe as it would have to travel up 3' through two 90s.
So this brings me to:
1) Pushing all this iron descale and sludge out to the 6" city line must not be a good idea.
2) Thinking of solutions, has anyone used a flexible vacuums hose that can fit down a 3" clean out, go through a Z bend and then suck up 30lbs of descale instead of kicking it all down to the city? Maybe something that can go 10' long?
Shop Vac might not fit? and may not be long enough? Maybe Curious if there is some economical way to clean up all the heavy iron chips and loose pipe debris that occurs from hydro jetting. Just tough to get down into the pipe. I just hate seeing all that heavy debris get pushed down the line into the city sewer? Seem like too much heavy debris to go sit down stream from me? Not like is going to move for the next 100 years.