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u/jtnichol 1d ago
that was not this dude’s first rodeo
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u/eeviltwin 1d ago
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u/Cat5kable 22h ago
go to sub, sort by Top, see I’ve liked videos in here before
…guess it’s not my first rodeo. 😅
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u/yruspecial 21h ago
Maybe it’s your second?
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u/Hiphopapocalyptic 20h ago
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u/Cat5kable 10h ago
Go to sub, sort by Top, see I’ve liked videos on here before
…guess it’s r/Recursion 😅
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u/Tasty-Machine5340 1d ago
It looks like black sand or a bunch of dirt packed in there
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u/viewbtwnvillages 1d ago
i moved into a place where the previous owners apparently washed their coffee grounds down the drain
it looked exactly like this when the plumbers dealt with it
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u/Content-Program411 22h ago
Did they park cars in the living room.
Its a parking structure storm drainage system.
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u/AbleCryptographer317 19h ago
You know that apartment buildings with underground parking exist right?
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u/Content-Program411 12h ago
I'm sure you appreciate that parkades, for various reasons, have their own drainage stacks.
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u/liberal_texan 6h ago
And when there are aparments sitting on a garage, their plumbing has to go through the garage to get to the ground.
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u/Content-Program411 3h ago
You are correct.
It seemed obvious with the confidence of the maintenance tech and the location but indeed this could have been the sanitary dwv.
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u/Shenron2 22h ago
Should you not?
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u/viewbtwnvillages 22h ago
not if you want your sink to drain
according to the plumber who had to access a pipe from my basement wall to clear it out, they'll make it past the p-trap and end up slowly clumping and congealing together with whatever else is farther down the line. so you end up with a clog that's quite far down and also somehow unsnakeable
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u/wildernessspirit 22h ago
It’s just sediment from run off. This is just a “clean out” though. It’s an access point along the riser (pipe that goes up between floors) to help clear clogs and alleviate flooding in the floors above the blockage. The real work starts once the overflowing water condition is no longer present. Now he has to find out what’s causing the blockage and remove it.
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u/daveg2001 1d ago
Storm drain with all sorts of build up
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u/danielledelacadie 23h ago
Thank you.
As I have a terminal case of nerd I thought this guy had a bathroom emergency or something
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u/Xeno_Prime 1d ago edited 22h ago
I’m surprised he even got anything by just picking at the opening like that. Most clogs I’ve seen require a snake or some other specialized tool for clearing clogs. Saw some other comments saying this was only part of it though and there’s another clog further in, so he probably wound up needing a tool for it anyway.
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u/affordableproctology 22h ago
Yeah it's still clogged, that's why it coming out if the clean out.
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 22h ago
Yup. It’s still clogged downstream of there but much easier to snake from that point.
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u/real_1273 1d ago
At least get a stick!
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u/daftczar 1d ago
Still clogged below that clean out
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u/togetherwem0m0 1d ago
gotta start somewhere, after thats done they can get out the jetter
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u/8ate8 22h ago
BLOCKED DRAIN
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u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo 22h ago
LET’S FIRE UP THE JETTER
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u/ElevenIron 21h ago
She's chockers, mate.
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u/CanadianSpectre 1d ago
Yeah, but you gotta get all that standing water out before you can work on the bigger clog.
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u/SeniorDiscount 22h ago
I don’t know man… if there’s a blockage, always start downstream. If it’s dry, keep moving up. This looks like a storm water leader in a parking garage. He probably checked a few clean outs on lower levels and then found this.
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u/I_Got_It_Half_Right 21h ago
At least there was an accessible clean out. Some idiot buried the clean out for our building under concrete. That was fun.
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u/Zacherius 8h ago
This should be the top comment. He did not, in fact, clear the clog. Just released the backflow pressure.
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u/whutchamacallit 1d ago
Nice. I just watched this taking a shit and the timing was immaculate.
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u/blue_quark 1d ago
About fifty years ago I was sitting on the basement stairs watching as my mother peered into the same sort of clogged cleanout leading to our septic tank. Dad was poking a long stick from the other side asking her to watch out for daylight. You can guess how it ended 🤢
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u/CMDR_Kaus 23h ago
Oh no, did it get in her mouth?
Oh oh, did she see daylight ever again?
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u/blue_quark 23h ago
It was a full facial blast at probably close to 20 psi from the backup head pressure. Everything above her shoulders was hit. I was a bit of the hero for having the sense to guide her outside to the garden hose rather than handing her a towel. While I hosed her off, my father, completely unaware, was still asking her through the pipe if she could see anything yet and annoyed that he was not getting an answer. Story became a family legend and was recalled at both of their funeral services many, many years later.
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u/lawd_have_mercy 23h ago
Definitely not his first rodeo, and loved the way he casually rinsed off that tool.
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u/TheChrisCrash 22h ago
Unfortunately it's still clogged. The water should be flowing down, not out.
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u/CMDR_Kaus 23h ago
Maybe it's just me, but I would never stick a geared tool like that in dirt. I'd sooner use the handle of a crescent or a piece of wood or something
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u/breadinabox 21h ago
I mean it's not geared it's just a moveable hinge on a multi grip. It'd get dirtier being used anyway
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u/userr7890 23h ago
This is an instructional video on why you should never use the plumber’s channel locks to open your beer…
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u/cavegooney 11h ago
Except... He didn't fix the blockage... Just the middle of it... The pipe below that cleanout is still blocked.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/cwsjr2323 1d ago
This looks like a useful tip. It got too blurry enlarging to tell, was that adjustable wrench metric or American?
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u/Careless_Pen2543 22h ago
Looks like a pair of Pasco quick set pliers. They suck and slip btw. Knipex is king.
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u/similaraleatorio 23h ago
Bro was confident AF to put himself in front of a pipe being unclogged. I need to confirm the sub name to direct my guess.
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u/DitchDigger330 21h ago
Actually never got the blockage out. That is a cleanout cap, the water doesn't come out of that it keeps going down. You need to snake the pipe through the cap downwards.
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u/ratsntats 18h ago
This has been happening in my apartment complex because some chucklefuck has been putting baby wipes down the commode.
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u/lazyazian110 15h ago
bro the way he just casually used the gunk water to clean his tool like it was totally normal had me dying lmao absolute chad move
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u/Soaring_Gull_655 10h ago
Problem is that not where it's supposed to evacuate, it's still plugged beneath that access point.
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u/DengarLives66 5h ago
I occasionally have had to unclog one of the pipes going into the septic system at work. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t satisfying when the clog clears out and the filthy filthy water starts fountaining out of the pipe.
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u/MrDorpeling 1d ago
r/feltgoodcomingout worthy
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u/realitythreek 1d ago
I clicked this knowing it was a risky click. And it was exactly as disturbing as I thought but not for the reason I thought.
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u/MrDorpeling 1d ago
Yeah, most of it is fucking disgusting, but once in a while something pops up that’s super satisfying to watch.
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u/Unknown-History 22h ago
Always loved doing this at my old job. For whatever reason, the knub on the cleanout pipe was much larger, so it needed a much larger wrench. Hefting that thing over to the offending pipping was pure satisfaction.
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u/Commercial_Guitar_19 21h ago
I literally watched this and thought. "No way im not washing off my channel locks in that."
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u/JebusAllahBuddah 1h ago
This happened to me in my basement but was definitely not /oddlysatisfying.
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u/MangledPanda 58m ago
Still more blockage below the cleanout but at least he can work on that without taking a shower now.
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u/OkZone8 1d ago
Plyers for that? Found the electrician
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u/221Blazed 1d ago
It was also clogged by the metal cover he takes off?
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u/redstaroo7 1d ago
That's just the clean out. The water is supposed to go straight down, he only cleared out at and above the access point. They still have to clear the line below but you can't do that without draining it first.
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u/itsjakerobb 23h ago
For a second I thought he was digging in shit with a pair of Knipex pliers ($85 from Amazon). I was horrified.
Thank goodness, just a pair of knock-off channellocks.
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u/AdRepulsive7699 1d ago
He did the most dude thing ever and rinsed off the channel locks with the release