What is the obstruction in this cleanout interior drainpipe?

The SaveFile link is pretty sad. You would be better served posting Photobucket or Picasa links that don't want you to buy a subscription, and in fact work quite well.

Joe

I tested the download link and it would allow a 50k download speed without subscribing.

Anyway, I just used the first video host that I found a link to. I'll give Photobucket a try next time. Thanks.

on 7/13/2009 11:31 PM (ET) ShadowTek wrote the following:

There shouldn't be anything in the pipe, whether it is near the cleanout or anywhere else in the pipe. Got a toddler in the house? Maybe he/she flushed a sponge or rag down the drain. Got a woman in the house, or had women visiting? Maybe a Kotex was flushed down the drain.

Well I hope that tearing it out isn't going cause a leak, but it's in my way and I need to find whatever is obstructing that drain. For all I know, *that* thing is what's clogging the pipes.

I didn't get a chance to get under there today, but I'll likely get at it tomarow, as I got enough sun today to make me want to stay in the shade for a while.

The obstruction was a damn bottle of Wonder Bubbles. lol

Here another cleanout access I found that I thought was funny:

ShadowTek posted for all of us...

didn't feel like messin with it:

You going to remedy this mess? I like the jaunty nail cable support!

There's a *lot* of work that needs to be done to this particular house, much of it being of higher priority, but I think it *would* be good to correct that particular area, especially since it's right next to the water heater.

The reason that non-galvanized nail is so rusty is that the nearby water heater has leaked and flooded that basement at least twice that I know of. The last time, hammering of the pipes hear the heater's output connection hose had caused a spraying leak to spew from the part of the (flexible) hose where the flexible material meets its ridgid end peice.

I created a fine mist that went unnoticed for however long, until it got so bad that the water was draining faster than it could fill and the heater's internal breaker tripped, finally creating a symptom when the hot water was no more.

So yeah, it's probably a good idea to straighten up the electrical in that area.

And that reminds me of yet *another* thing that needs to be done: the water heater has no drainpan, and the overflow valve is just connected to a short, angled pipe that's pointing straight down at the basement floor.