Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at
10:39 am

dan-d-man asked:
3 months ago we had water damage from our masterbathroom toilet that overflowed. The water went down to the living room and down to the basement. It was a major damage that took 3 months to repair. We had to replace the vinyl flooring in our masterbathroom floor, fixed the living room ceiling and full finished basement’s ceiling. The problem was the sewer pipe outside the yard that caused it all. The plumber replaced and installed properly the wrong pipe. The plumber found out that the pipe installed by the builder of our home was wrong. In their description of work they wrote, “THERE WAS SDR35 PIPE GLUED INTO A SCH40 PVC COUPLING WHICH IS AN IMPROPER CONNECTION. SDR35 IS A THINNER WALL PIPE THEREFORE THE SDR 35 PIPE WAS NOT IN THE COUPLING PROPERLY. THERE WAS ALSO NO STONE UNDER PIPE BY HOUSE CAUSING FURTHER PROBLEMS. PROBLEM WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF PROPERLY INSTALLED.” The builder of our home told us that SDR35 and SCH40 is compatible. Is this true?
The plumber said that the pipe collapsed got bent and broke outside. The clean out pipe was installed improperly by our home builder. The pipe coming from the house was GOOD, the pipe outside was installed wrong. It was just glued together with no coupling, and no stone underneath. They did not put a coupling but just glued SDR30 with SCH40. If there is a link or a CODE this is covered, I appreciate if someone knows