Keeping sewage at bay with This Old House host Kevin O’Connor and plumbing contractor Dennis Langowski. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for Installing a Flood Control System:
– cast-iron, twin check valve
– ready-mix concrete
– gravel and sand
– rubber couplings
– curved pre-cast concrete blocks
– buckets and rope
Tools for Installing a Flood Control System:
– pointed shovel
– sledgehammer
– nut driver
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I love that it was still a lead pipe feeding the house water.
That old check valve is so flimsy and can't compare with modern systems.
So since they concreted in the cast iron if it ever fails they have to jack hammer it out?
Forcefully pumps sewage into an already blocked sewer line? Seems like a good idea.
modern product is so weak, flimsy and cheaply made. I think capitalists wants us rebuy from them every year.
OMG, that’s terrible to see the LEAD water service pipe there and it’s Not replace it!!!!!!!!!
Why not just replace the pump?
Does anyone notice that they're illegal as hell with no trench shoring?
Janet? That's Joan Cusack! Look her up.
Not Code in Chicago. Typical find in Chicago. This woman is highly misinformed. A little knowledge is dangerous for some people. (yes that was an insult) Poor and incomplete presentation and installation. Why? The system you present is only a backwater preventing system(double check valve). The home owner cannot use water in the home during a flooding situation because is will back out of the basement gravity sewer drain as it has no where to go. They must have an overflow, a sump basin at the bottom no smaller than 20" x 40" with a 2" ejector pump at the bottom to force domestic waste water from the vault basin into the city system. I have been in the flood control business for 40+ years and have installed thousands of flood control system in Cook County alone. Parks usually hires my rejects. In that neighborhood, overhead sewers would have cost more, but would be a much better option.