Here is the deal. My parents had the landscaper tie the original sump pump pipe into a PVC pipe connected to one of the downspouts. So, essentially water from the roof and water from the sump pump are supposed to feed into the original orangeburgh pipe which leads out to the storm sewer.
The first sign of a problem was that water backs up out of the pvc pipe that connects to the downspout. This happens when the sump pump goes on. After digging everything up and dumping water into the sump pump, there are 2 areas where water leaks in addition to the initial downspout/pvc connector. One of the pvc joint connections and apparently a spot i hit with the shovel(ooops!)
So, after digging all this out and seeing what the landscapers had done a few years back, I decided to take a hose and spray water into the pvc/downspout pipe. My father stood out by the storm sewer for 2 minutes while I sprayed water into that downspout pipe. It never reached the street. It came out of the leaky pvc connection and the hole i made with the shovel.
I then sprayed water into another downspout on the other side of the house and the water made it to the storm sewer.
1)How do i find out where the clog is in the orangeburgh pipe
2)How do i go about changing the faulty connections in the pvc pipe.
here are pix and maybe you can understand what im talking about. one leak has a small garden spade marking it and another has a putty knife sticking out of the ground...
thanks for any help/replies and hope you all understand what im saying.
The first sign of a problem was that water backs up out of the pvc pipe that connects to the downspout. This happens when the sump pump goes on. After digging everything up and dumping water into the sump pump, there are 2 areas where water leaks in addition to the initial downspout/pvc connector. One of the pvc joint connections and apparently a spot i hit with the shovel(ooops!)
So, after digging all this out and seeing what the landscapers had done a few years back, I decided to take a hose and spray water into the pvc/downspout pipe. My father stood out by the storm sewer for 2 minutes while I sprayed water into that downspout pipe. It never reached the street. It came out of the leaky pvc connection and the hole i made with the shovel.
I then sprayed water into another downspout on the other side of the house and the water made it to the storm sewer.
1)How do i find out where the clog is in the orangeburgh pipe
2)How do i go about changing the faulty connections in the pvc pipe.
here are pix and maybe you can understand what im talking about. one leak has a small garden spade marking it and another has a putty knife sticking out of the ground...
thanks for any help/replies and hope you all understand what im saying.