Pipe to Septic Tank

paint it concrete grey and attach a bird bath on top? With spacers to permit air flow.

lee

It could be a cleanout that was left high for some reason, or a vent. I'd find out what it is, why it's so high, then proceed. They are usually cut off at ground level, and a "Jim Cap" put on them. A rubber cover that has two stainless steel hose clamps. You want to leave it low enough so you can mow over it.

Steve

If it's capped (likely), it's simply a cleanout connection. Cut it off low and cap it again.

Jim

No it is an air vent I've confirmed. Does it have to be 3 feet off the ground by code or something ??? Can I cut it in half and make it much smaller. Its currently in the shape of a candy cane. None of the pieces are glued together, I can pull the 3 pieces apart.

Maybe you should move to a real neighbourhood you peice of white trash s*it.

STFU

-- Oren

"Too many beggars trying to be choosers."

Ah. Yes, vent. If you are really concerned about any Code issues, a call to the County should clarify the requirements. The height could be an issue if you get deep snow there, or possible flooding during rains.

Otherwise, just cut it down, as you said. You could even reduce the diameter which will make the return bend ("U") a lot smaller. It can always be restored to original if need be. Your call...

Jim

Now that you make me think about it, where I've seen vents out in the septic field they've always been higher than the trap at the house leading to the field.

Bill

When I thought about it I could never; ever, remember one three feet tall in FRONT of a house...any house?

-- Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

paint it green

Don't touch it! You might blow up!

Seems to me that vent pipe(s) would be on roof of house. I have a clean-out pipe capped at ground level but vents are on roof.

Frank

You need another NYM; maybe, OK SUK WHANG.

Do not still this person's identity. Died: 4/4/90?

-- Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

Related to OK SUK WHANG, died 1990? Born August 18, 1901?

-- Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

why?

huh?

If it ain't broke....

Don't konw about your situation, but I see a possible similarity with a n'hood I walk through a couple times a week. The n'hood I'm thinking of has city sewers, but it is about 10 years old and each front yard has a 4 inch white plastic pipe vertical in the yard. Some are even with the ground and not really visible because of the grass. But others are up to 6 inches (not 3 feet) high, and look really ugly. I think for many of the owners it is their first house, and they don't have nerve enough to do anything. If I lived there, I'd figure they cut the pipes without knowing where they woudl go or how high the dirt would be, and I'd cut the pipe off as low as the lowest one in the n'hood.

In your case I'd do what you're doing, ask what it is for, but if it is for an air vent, I don't know why it has to be anywhere near as high, or as big a diameter. Or why it would have to hook over, when one could cut V's or U's in the end edge of the pipe and then attach a cap a little bigger than the pipe, and it would vent through those. I am not a plumber.

But I'd also ask the builder, or the builder's plumber.

I don't know why it should go higher than the traps in the house, unless one was trying to avoid siphoning water through the septic from the pipes in the house, which I don't think could ever happen anyhow.

Y is a crooked letter!

-- Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

Hold on Uncle Jed, I can git this!

-- Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."