Mark;
1) My cleanout from the barn toilet consists of a tee in the mainline that
is right at ground level, in fact I would not hesitate to use that fitting for
dumping the RV waste tanks (and had to do so via a hand carried 5 gallon
bucket 14 years ago when living on-site in a camping trailer while the new
house
was being completed).
My septic installer explained to me that the heat generated by the bacteria
from the septic system would keep the pipes warm enough to prevent freezing.
14 years on and I have not had a problem with that install.
2) At about the same time while I was drilling fence post holes just 4' deep
I hit the septic main line from the house. Repaired with the rubber couplers
and a short length of the 4" PVC line. The rubber couplers allowed enough
wriggle room to achieve the repair.
Just eat your Wheaties that morning because wrestling those couplers takes
some strength. Oh, and cut off the water supply to the house as wives and
other occupants have an ingrained habit to flush the toilet while you're in the
middle of your project.
(Stinky) Bart Holden
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In a message dated 10/4/2008 11:23:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
mark@sccaprepared.com writes:
Sorry, replace "gluing" there with "rubber (femco?) couplings"... I can't
imaging I'll easily be able to get the pipe to move enough to work a glued
in T into place.
Mark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Mark Andy wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I've got a fairly typical rural septic tank (two, actually) with leech
> field setup. I've also got an RV.
>
> I want to put in a T or whatever in the line from the house going to the
> septic tank, with a screw on cap so that I can dump the RV's tanks at
> home.
>
> Is there anything to this beyond just digging down to the pipe, gluing in
> a T with a capped riser, and filling the hole back in? You do glue septic
> pipe, right?
>
> Do I need to worry about freezing weather with this? The existing pipe is
> (presumably) below the frost line, but now I'm going to have a 2' or 3' or
> whatever pipe with essentially no insulation going up above the frost
> line...
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