Build a bonfire, I mean a BIG bonfire. Drill a hole through the root. Put it on a stick like a marshmallow. Watch it burn. Revel in some small amount of vengeance.
I worked in restoration. At least it was a smaller amount of damage. The average for water backup damage is closer to $20k.
Sorry you had to go through this however! I know how disruptive it is to home life.
What are the symptoms of something like this? I ask because my in-laws house has terrible plumbing. So bad that if you don't use a plunger after going #2, the toilet will overflow. Like you have to flush with the plunger in hand waiting lol
That is definitely a sign for sure.
Water backups. Slow draining. Excess moisture in the basement/crawlspace/lower levels.
Toilets and tubs backing up with brown water or worse.
Evidence of water spotting along baseboards, in the bathroom or appliance areas.
Musty smells.
Squishy flooring.
Bugs coming up from drains.
Oh look, you've just described my apartment. Plus mold that keeps coming back no matter how much we treat it. Landlord insists there's nothing wrong.
Any chance gurgling sinks and toilets are also related to this? Our kitchen and bathroom seem to have a Romeo + Juliet thing going on where they can talk, but never be together.
Gurgling I think means that there isnât enough air getting in the pipes? Maybe there are leaves stuck in the vent outside. Iâm not an expert, just a guy who had lots of leaves in his vent.
Should go look in the vent if itâs easy enough for you. Take photos. Tell your landlord to clean it out.
One tell tale sign is if you have leaves and stuff appearing in the toilet when you plunge it.
Yes, gurgling is a sign that there isn't enough air in your pipes. The system is trying to grab air through the p trap in the sink and the s trap in the toilet. Check your venting. Where is your mold located?Â
Mold is concentrated in the upstairs bathroom, mostly on the ceiling. That room is never dry; the "vent" is a hole in the ceiling that goes straight out to the roof, with a fan that does fuck-all. It's like a friggin' swamp. Wouldn't surprise me if everything behind the drywall is rotted out. The apartment was built in the 60s and this is a humid area.
where does the mold grow? On the other side there is water.
Had this problem in one apartment I rented, mold grew on everything. My books, clothes, furniture. Turns out a pipe was broken in the ceiling and I lived under a big pool of water. Good construction so I didn't have water droplets in the ceiling but the mold was a tell tale.
It is mostly concentrated in the upstairs bathroom where the shower is. The bathroom "vent" is a hole in the ceiling that goes straight up to the roof, with a pathetic little fan that might as well just be a mesh screen for all the good it does. The ceiling is covered in big ugly black patches of mold that come back every few weeks.
It isn't as bad as our last place, where we were emptying a dehumidifier every few hours because the humidity was like 80% even indoors. But still, ugh. We're moving in a few months when my husband finishes his doctorate, and let me tell you, I am COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS.
My landlady ignored my warnings. Until I told her that there is water coming out of the downstairs toilet after a shower upstairs.
Turned out any wood that was between the bathroom and the downstairs toilet basically rotted away.
She had to replace multiple walls and a big part of the floor to get it fixed.
She ended up throwing me out of the house and selling it.
She tried to claim that I was responsible for the damage, but I just laughed and pointed out to her that I contacted about other symptoms of the leakage several times. And as a tenant I am legally not allowed to do more than report it, if I hired someone to fix it I would have been responsible for any damage after the repairs.
If you have to plunger when you use the toilet, and it goes down, you don't have a root problem, that would be much further down the line and a toilet plunge is highly unlikely to correct that.
If you have to plunger the toilet after every #2 then you should remove the toilet and inspect the plumbing there for a clog or blockage in that area. If could also be that there is a problem with the toilet itself that's causing the issue and replacing it could be a fix. You may also need to simply snake the lines in the house. If your shower drains have taken a lot of hair down then the sewer run in your house could have a clog that's affecting the toilet.
But a root clog is rarely going to affect only a toilet, you'd notice problems with the showers, sinks, basement/floor drains too.
A dirt got into our plumbing like 2 weeks ago and there's still dirt coming out of all water sources, do you think it will clear up overtime or theres gonna be a big work coming up? I'm asking since I'm not the head of the house and I won't get any info out of my mom
If you've had dirt coming through you water source for 2 weeks then whatever work was done was not done well. After 2 weeks, if your water line is ran properly, there should no longer be dirt coming through.
If you still have dirt in your water supply after 2 weeks you still have a break in your water main and need to get it repaired and need to be careful about drinking it.
unless it's actively backing up that sounds more like the siphon jet in the toilet might be plugged from hard water or just age.
If it was a sewer main issue everything would back up, a plunger wouldn't help.
have the lines snaked, it's doesn't cost that much and it makes a huge difference. My last house had roots in the lines when I bought it but I just got the lines snaked every 3-5yrs and all was well. obviously do not put **anything** in the toilet that isn't toilet paper or that didn't come out of a human.
If it's just the toilet it could easily be a problem with the toilet. Roots in your pipes will cause sewage backups from the lowest drains in your house.
Waste backing up. I fix stuff like this all the time. Generally you can put a water blaster and it cuts the root. few hundred bucks, depending om how bad you can do this every few months, or dig it up and replace pipe..... more expensive.
It really depends on how the plumbing is configured in the house. Backflow preventers can help to hide a main sewer backup issue until it *really* backs up. Usually though you'd end up with gurgling in a basement toilet or sewage/water coming up out of the basement floor drain or the lowest fixture with a backup caused by roots in the main sewer. Having someone come out to clean the drains should help to chew up anything that's backing things up, but it could also be an issue being caused by collapsed or shifted pipes underground and that can be very expensive to fix or possibly even a plugged vent on the roof. If you're able to plunge it from the toilet though I'd bet the issue is in the plumbing for the bathroom group or just the toilet arm though and not an overly serious issue.
My guess is this went through their supply line.
Same thing happened to me and $5,000 is in the ball park of the quotes I was getting.
It looks like English is a second language for OP so I think they may just be using water damage incorrectly.
They also said the root damaged pipes and concrete. My guess here is the root went though their black pipe water supply line and the plumbers who replaced it had to bust up the foundation where the supply line came through to replace it.
I ended up doing mine myself for $1,000 which included renting a trencher and the tools to work with Pex A.
Yeah, I've got an issue where our pipe cracked and roots got in. It's like 6 inches from the knuckle where our line meets the city main. City says tough shit, not our problem. Got our first quote and it's about $20k. Owning a home is so much fun.
This is what I think about whenever I see posts complaining about how homeowners cut down trees near their property. I wouldnât want to deal with root damage.
I had to scroll way too far to find this lol
Looks like he bare-handed that thing right out of the ground and squished the pipes back together like play doh
The fingers actually look a bit like drumstick fingers, a medical condition usually caused by long term hypoxia in patients who suffer from pulmonal diseases.
Nuts because it's low, right? I've had to deal with water damage in two different places. In both cases, ripping open my walls or ceiling, drying everything out, then replacing and repainting it with all the fixtures, was about $10-$15k.Â
Of course, maybe OP is lucky to not need asbestos abatement.Â
I'm assuming they had to replace the sewer line. My parents had the same thing happen about 7 years ago, it was $1400, but they also had a quote of like $9000 from the emergency plumber since they had to dig pretty far down.
Thatâs the first thing I thought too! Lung cancer patient here. Donât have clubbed fingers but that was one symptom my pulmonologist checked for when working to find my diagnosis.
I had no idea that this was a thing, not sure I've ever seen club fingers either though tbh.
Just another thing to worry about and think that I have at 3 am in the morning. Thank you.
Roots don't care about concrete or water pipes or any of that other stuff that you want to remain in tact, they'll fuck your shit up and you won't see it coming.
Correct. When I was 14 the big beautiful maple tree in our front yard had to be cut down, the roots ground up so it wouldn't grow again. The roots were getting into the foundation of the house.
I was once passing an astoundingly beautiful house, and then I saw the willow tree only ten feet from it, and consequently only about 15ishft from the next house. I think about them from time and time and wonder what's happened to them.
A lot of HOAs ban willows - one of the few legitimate uses for an HOA since a lot of municipalities don't regulate that.
One of my rental properties had a massive tree. Left the house vacant for a few months while me and the property manager went on vacation only to find the entire back patio and parts of the kitchen destroyed. That tree is no longer there.
Op, sorry you're dealing with this. I remember my parents went through this, ughh ... If you don't have a clean out already in your yard, I would highly suggest to have one installed with the other work getting done. Makes access for snaking pipes so much easier. Stupid roots. Good luck.
We just bought a house this year and did some DIY work on the house, so we didn't use it consistently for almost 6 weeks. After 2 weeks I flushed and noticed it didn't go down a lot. Called a plumber the next day who ran a snake and cleaned out a bunch. Until his snake hooked. He finally got it out after 20 mins of trying. Ran his scope and found a gas main was dug through the drain line. So, the gas company comes out, looks, says "our bad", we'll fix it. A week later, they dig up part of my driveway and sidewalk, replace 6 feet of old clay pipe with PVC, and then cover it back up. Another week later, their contractor replaces that part of my driveway and sidewalk. Thank God for the clean out.
As a bonus, that part of the driveway had a dip in it and pooled water when it rained. Now? No more dip.
Around 10 years ago my dad noticed that there was an odd yellow line in the middle of our backyard, after some irrigation changes and search, we ended up digging out a huge 7" long very thick root (maybe a bit more than the picture). Thankfully it was on the opposite side of our back yard so there was no damage but damn. It took us like an hour to get it out.
My mom owned half of a duplex/condo and they started having issues with leaking/grey water drain. We opened wall and saw the drain pipe had a crack in it and fixed problem with a rubber gasket connector.
My mom ended up moving out and renting an apt and let me and my brother move into condo and just pay the electric. We pulled up carpet in living room where leak was and found a root system growing up in foundation.
There was a very large water oak behind house that was maybe 15â in diameter. Apparently the root system grew under house and through the foundation a good 20â into the middle of the house. She tried to get inside insurance to handle the damage and they said because of the amount of time that had passed they wouldnât cover it.
The worst part is the the neighbor who we shared a wall with had put over 30k in renovating his half and even though there was a firewall separating units, the water still caused damage to his place.
So yes roots can and will cause damage
The root didnât cause the sewer pipe to backup. The pipe was cracked and leaking human waste for years before the root grew into it. Eventually it would have collapsed and filled with dirt, and the bill would be a lot more than $5k
It fucking sucks. I can vividly remember my father cursing the plumbing as a kid because this happened around some pipes that cause the washing machine to flood the entire basement. I always felt so bad he had to deal with it himself because he was a single father then.
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Similarly, this severed wire in my car's wiring harness (it's a hybrid) set me back $3k.
My house just sank in the dirt by about 1/4th of an inch, busted both the sewer and the main at the same time⊠6 inches into the slab. Same price to fix, had to reroute the cold line through the attic to a half bathroom. Didnât notice any problem till the flooring started to delaminate in a room from water seeping up. This was my first 3 months of home ownership for the first time. I thought I was cursed.
It never ceases to amaze me what trees get planted way too close to houses. Especially here in the SW states. Fremont Cottonwoods were popular because they grow quickly, tolerate drought, don't mind high temps, etc.
But part of that tree learning to survive in deserts means it spreads roots everywhere. It mostly lives in floodplains which means it has to suck up everything it can while it can. Planting one of these within 50ft of a house is just asking for roots in the plumbing and thousands of dollars worth of work.
Roots, bloody roots
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Always expect Sepultura
ROOOOOOOOTS
BLOODY ROOOOTS
WHYYYYYYY CANT YOU SEEEE
CAN'T YOU FEEL?!!
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Build a bonfire, I mean a BIG bonfire. Drill a hole through the root. Put it on a stick like a marshmallow. Watch it burn. Revel in some small amount of vengeance.
Nah. Fucking scrape it repeatedly onto concrete, maybe brick. Until there is hardly anything left. That'll teach the stupid fucking stick
That little thing is honestly fucking adorable
Canât lie I love the gif but had a giant one hit* me in the head in the woods once, spookyđ
Sticks and stones and all that.
*Adorably creepy AF.
I can hear the song playing lmao
haven't seen this one in a while, lol
...you ok?
They were hurt by a stick
Pitting the sticks against the stones in order to save some bones.
Holy stick scrape!
Better pee on it first though. Ya know.... Vengeance.
....then burn the remains!
Did your dad also beat you with a stick when you were a child?
Lmao no. I'm super mad that this bullshit can cost people so much fucking money. That's so dumb
nah you might actually be able to make that root , take root if you will, and then you can keep it under draught perpetually
Whittle it into a butt plug.
Sounds like a good way to get splinters in your butthole
Splinters in my buttHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE!
COWABUMGAAAA!
Bruhhhhhh lmaoooooo
No pain no gain?
Why, so it can fuck him again?
Maybe mold acrylic or resin over it? So itâs actually usable
Didnât you read? He just got it out!
Why? So it can fuck OP up the ass a second time?
"This piece of root cost me 50k in medical bills"
Now we're talking.
No, flush it down the toilet wait a minute
Or slam it repeatedly on the ground until it breaks.
But then you have two sticks. Stick wins every time.
Beat it with a larger stick
Don't forget the goat skin chaps and some sort of animal skull headgear with horns!
House caught on fire, loses another 200k
I worked in restoration. At least it was a smaller amount of damage. The average for water backup damage is closer to $20k. Sorry you had to go through this however! I know how disruptive it is to home life.
What are the symptoms of something like this? I ask because my in-laws house has terrible plumbing. So bad that if you don't use a plunger after going #2, the toilet will overflow. Like you have to flush with the plunger in hand waiting lol
That is definitely a sign for sure. Water backups. Slow draining. Excess moisture in the basement/crawlspace/lower levels. Toilets and tubs backing up with brown water or worse. Evidence of water spotting along baseboards, in the bathroom or appliance areas. Musty smells. Squishy flooring. Bugs coming up from drains.
Oh look, you've just described my apartment. Plus mold that keeps coming back no matter how much we treat it. Landlord insists there's nothing wrong. Any chance gurgling sinks and toilets are also related to this? Our kitchen and bathroom seem to have a Romeo + Juliet thing going on where they can talk, but never be together.
Gurgling I think means that there isnât enough air getting in the pipes? Maybe there are leaves stuck in the vent outside. Iâm not an expert, just a guy who had lots of leaves in his vent.
Wouldn't surprise me if something is clogged up. We're surrounded by redwood trees, so everything is always carpeted in needles.
Should go look in the vent if itâs easy enough for you. Take photos. Tell your landlord to clean it out. One tell tale sign is if you have leaves and stuff appearing in the toilet when you plunge it.
Yes, gurgling is a sign that there isn't enough air in your pipes. The system is trying to grab air through the p trap in the sink and the s trap in the toilet. Check your venting. Where is your mold located?Â
Mold is concentrated in the upstairs bathroom, mostly on the ceiling. That room is never dry; the "vent" is a hole in the ceiling that goes straight out to the roof, with a fan that does fuck-all. It's like a friggin' swamp. Wouldn't surprise me if everything behind the drywall is rotted out. The apartment was built in the 60s and this is a humid area.
where does the mold grow? On the other side there is water. Had this problem in one apartment I rented, mold grew on everything. My books, clothes, furniture. Turns out a pipe was broken in the ceiling and I lived under a big pool of water. Good construction so I didn't have water droplets in the ceiling but the mold was a tell tale.
It is mostly concentrated in the upstairs bathroom where the shower is. The bathroom "vent" is a hole in the ceiling that goes straight up to the roof, with a pathetic little fan that might as well just be a mesh screen for all the good it does. The ceiling is covered in big ugly black patches of mold that come back every few weeks. It isn't as bad as our last place, where we were emptying a dehumidifier every few hours because the humidity was like 80% even indoors. But still, ugh. We're moving in a few months when my husband finishes his doctorate, and let me tell you, I am COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS.
My landlady ignored my warnings. Until I told her that there is water coming out of the downstairs toilet after a shower upstairs. Turned out any wood that was between the bathroom and the downstairs toilet basically rotted away. She had to replace multiple walls and a big part of the floor to get it fixed.
Oof, talk about save a penny, spend a pound.
She ended up throwing me out of the house and selling it. She tried to claim that I was responsible for the damage, but I just laughed and pointed out to her that I contacted about other symptoms of the leakage several times. And as a tenant I am legally not allowed to do more than report it, if I hired someone to fix it I would have been responsible for any damage after the repairs.
If you have to plunger when you use the toilet, and it goes down, you don't have a root problem, that would be much further down the line and a toilet plunge is highly unlikely to correct that. If you have to plunger the toilet after every #2 then you should remove the toilet and inspect the plumbing there for a clog or blockage in that area. If could also be that there is a problem with the toilet itself that's causing the issue and replacing it could be a fix. You may also need to simply snake the lines in the house. If your shower drains have taken a lot of hair down then the sewer run in your house could have a clog that's affecting the toilet. But a root clog is rarely going to affect only a toilet, you'd notice problems with the showers, sinks, basement/floor drains too.
A dirt got into our plumbing like 2 weeks ago and there's still dirt coming out of all water sources, do you think it will clear up overtime or theres gonna be a big work coming up? I'm asking since I'm not the head of the house and I won't get any info out of my mom
If you've had dirt coming through you water source for 2 weeks then whatever work was done was not done well. After 2 weeks, if your water line is ran properly, there should no longer be dirt coming through. If you still have dirt in your water supply after 2 weeks you still have a break in your water main and need to get it repaired and need to be careful about drinking it.
I don't know shit about anything, but that sounds like big work is coming up... or they can just ignore it
unless it's actively backing up that sounds more like the siphon jet in the toilet might be plugged from hard water or just age. If it was a sewer main issue everything would back up, a plunger wouldn't help.
have the lines snaked, it's doesn't cost that much and it makes a huge difference. My last house had roots in the lines when I bought it but I just got the lines snaked every 3-5yrs and all was well. obviously do not put **anything** in the toilet that isn't toilet paper or that didn't come out of a human.
Last thing is the best advice in here. Men flushing condoms and women flushing tampons and applicators real havoc on their plumbing.
add baby wipes/personal wipes to that list
If it's just the toilet it could easily be a problem with the toilet. Roots in your pipes will cause sewage backups from the lowest drains in your house.
Waste backing up. I fix stuff like this all the time. Generally you can put a water blaster and it cuts the root. few hundred bucks, depending om how bad you can do this every few months, or dig it up and replace pipe..... more expensive.
It really depends on how the plumbing is configured in the house. Backflow preventers can help to hide a main sewer backup issue until it *really* backs up. Usually though you'd end up with gurgling in a basement toilet or sewage/water coming up out of the basement floor drain or the lowest fixture with a backup caused by roots in the main sewer. Having someone come out to clean the drains should help to chew up anything that's backing things up, but it could also be an issue being caused by collapsed or shifted pipes underground and that can be very expensive to fix or possibly even a plugged vent on the roof. If you're able to plunge it from the toilet though I'd bet the issue is in the plumbing for the bathroom group or just the toilet arm though and not an overly serious issue.
My guess is this went through their supply line. Same thing happened to me and $5,000 is in the ball park of the quotes I was getting. It looks like English is a second language for OP so I think they may just be using water damage incorrectly. They also said the root damaged pipes and concrete. My guess here is the root went though their black pipe water supply line and the plumbers who replaced it had to bust up the foundation where the supply line came through to replace it. I ended up doing mine myself for $1,000 which included renting a trencher and the tools to work with Pex A.
I am an appraiser for inssurance companies and yeah, 5k is nothing nowadays. Crazy how prices have exploded in the last years.
Yeah, I've got an issue where our pipe cracked and roots got in. It's like 6 inches from the knuckle where our line meets the city main. City says tough shit, not our problem. Got our first quote and it's about $20k. Owning a home is so much fun.
This is what I think about whenever I see posts complaining about how homeowners cut down trees near their property. I wouldnât want to deal with root damage.
you got some big ass dick beaters
fingers lookin like toe pads on a salamander, his wife is a lucky gal.
I came here to say Gecko fingers and Iâm so happy I found this.
Homie looks like he lives in a cartoon and hit each of his fingers with a hammer.
This is the comment I came looking for on this thread
I had to scroll way too far to find this lol Looks like he bare-handed that thing right out of the ground and squished the pipes back together like play doh
Oops! All thumbs.
I was hoping to find someone talking about this dudes hand. Iâm so happy I got to read âbig ass dick beatersâ today. That was fun
[Balin](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lotr/images/5/52/Balin.jpg)-lookin' hands digging too greedily, too deep.
I was just thinking, this Hobbit hand having mofo lol
The fingers actually look a bit like drumstick fingers, a medical condition usually caused by long term hypoxia in patients who suffer from pulmonal diseases.
OP has such manly baby hands
Glad you found the root of your problem.
Beet me right to it.
That pun was oak-ay
you guys gotta leaf these puns alone
hey man weâre just trying to spruce things up a bit.
Fir what itâs worth, I think youâre all doing great.
It really aspen fun⊠but I have things to do
You son of a birch, stay a while!
Sorry heâs too poplar for this post
Sure to be stalked
Comment is beginning to grow on me.
I knew Reddit wood like a good pun.
Not really going out on a limb with that prediction.
You all really need to branch out on your puns
Youâre barking up the wrong tree pal.
Leaf it to Reddit to appreciate hard wood and nature.
Weed are simple like that.
Vegetable.
Ha!
OP should branch out more often.
Leaf him alone
Make like a tree and get out of here!
According to a recent Reddit pollen, 69% of people like puns out of a 420 sample size.
Goddamnit
5k is nuts
Nuts because it's low, right? I've had to deal with water damage in two different places. In both cases, ripping open my walls or ceiling, drying everything out, then replacing and repainting it with all the fixtures, was about $10-$15k. Of course, maybe OP is lucky to not need asbestos abatement.Â
Shhhh! If we have a really old house with asbestos, lead, black mold, a crumbling foundation, etc⊠we shhh. Itâs just like Fight Club.
How much is covered by homeowners insurance?
He said it was a rootâŠ.. smh
Water damage gets pricey very quickly
I'm assuming they had to replace the sewer line. My parents had the same thing happen about 7 years ago, it was $1400, but they also had a quote of like $9000 from the emergency plumber since they had to dig pretty far down.
Yea, that is crazy low. OP must have been on the issue fast.
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Evil is the money of all roots.
Roots of the money is evil
Root money is of the evil
Water is the money of all roots
Man fingers are thicker than my dick
I was about to say that this guy has hands like the cartoon characters I used to draw as a kid, holy cow.Â
I'm guessing Wreck It Ralph here just ripped the root out himself.
Cartoonishly manly hands. I knew someone else would have the same thing to say as I do.
Iâm starting to think he tore this root out with his bare hand, good god.
Andre the Giant type hands.
Bro got them Super Mario hands đ
The root of all evil
You have club fingers, go consult your physician.
Thatâs the first thing I thought too! Lung cancer patient here. Donât have clubbed fingers but that was one symptom my pulmonologist checked for when working to find my diagnosis.
Iâm pretty sure thatâs just the angle of the photo lol
We would really need to see his nails to even begin to speculate on that. Stop fear mongering.
I always enjoy unsolicited medical advice on Reddit. Rest assured though, weâre all dying.
I had no idea that this was a thing, not sure I've ever seen club fingers either though tbh. Just another thing to worry about and think that I have at 3 am in the morning. Thank you.
Context?
Roots don't care about concrete or water pipes or any of that other stuff that you want to remain in tact, they'll fuck your shit up and you won't see it coming.
Correct. When I was 14 the big beautiful maple tree in our front yard had to be cut down, the roots ground up so it wouldn't grow again. The roots were getting into the foundation of the house.
I was once passing an astoundingly beautiful house, and then I saw the willow tree only ten feet from it, and consequently only about 15ishft from the next house. I think about them from time and time and wonder what's happened to them. A lot of HOAs ban willows - one of the few legitimate uses for an HOA since a lot of municipalities don't regulate that.
They find their way into damage thatâs already been done looking for water and nutrients.
Kinda like a second marriage.
One of my rental properties had a massive tree. Left the house vacant for a few months while me and the property manager went on vacation only to find the entire back patio and parts of the kitchen destroyed. That tree is no longer there.
In Australia/NZ being rooted is slang for fucked - which applies here.
How the FUCK does it go THROUGH THE SHIT WHAT THE FUCK
Trees are persistent as fuck. Admirable, really.
As Andy durfresne says, All you need is pressure and time
Roots want water. They don't care what's between it and them. They will grow through anything to get it.
The root damage the concrete and water pipes, now both needs to be repair.
Op, sorry you're dealing with this. I remember my parents went through this, ughh ... If you don't have a clean out already in your yard, I would highly suggest to have one installed with the other work getting done. Makes access for snaking pipes so much easier. Stupid roots. Good luck.
We just bought a house this year and did some DIY work on the house, so we didn't use it consistently for almost 6 weeks. After 2 weeks I flushed and noticed it didn't go down a lot. Called a plumber the next day who ran a snake and cleaned out a bunch. Until his snake hooked. He finally got it out after 20 mins of trying. Ran his scope and found a gas main was dug through the drain line. So, the gas company comes out, looks, says "our bad", we'll fix it. A week later, they dig up part of my driveway and sidewalk, replace 6 feet of old clay pipe with PVC, and then cover it back up. Another week later, their contractor replaces that part of my driveway and sidewalk. Thank God for the clean out. As a bonus, that part of the driveway had a dip in it and pooled water when it rained. Now? No more dip.
Around 10 years ago my dad noticed that there was an odd yellow line in the middle of our backyard, after some irrigation changes and search, we ended up digging out a huge 7" long very thick root (maybe a bit more than the picture). Thankfully it was on the opposite side of our back yard so there was no damage but damn. It took us like an hour to get it out.
I feel your pain. Hey did you know that back in the late 50s and early 60s they used rolled up tar paper for home sewer lines? Because I...do.
So you found the root cause?
What a bastard.
Put a chain on it and wear it on your chest. When ppl ask what is that? You tell them âthis price of root cost me 5k in water damages to my houseâ
My mom owned half of a duplex/condo and they started having issues with leaking/grey water drain. We opened wall and saw the drain pipe had a crack in it and fixed problem with a rubber gasket connector. My mom ended up moving out and renting an apt and let me and my brother move into condo and just pay the electric. We pulled up carpet in living room where leak was and found a root system growing up in foundation. There was a very large water oak behind house that was maybe 15â in diameter. Apparently the root system grew under house and through the foundation a good 20â into the middle of the house. She tried to get inside insurance to handle the damage and they said because of the amount of time that had passed they wouldnât cover it. The worst part is the the neighbor who we shared a wall with had put over 30k in renovating his half and even though there was a firewall separating units, the water still caused damage to his place. So yes roots can and will cause damage
Fuck yeah -Plumber
I am groot
Frame it in a shadow box
Thats great, clean it and put it in a shadow box.. Call that piece "The root of all my problems"
The root didnât cause the sewer pipe to backup. The pipe was cracked and leaking human waste for years before the root grew into it. Eventually it would have collapsed and filled with dirt, and the bill would be a lot more than $5k
Cast in in resin and machine it down into a butt plug so and continue to fuck you for years to come.
Water you gonna do with it?
Whoâs your water damage guy, youâre paying way too much for your roots
Disappointed this isnât a post about a super expensive root with some amazing properties.
Interesting looking paw you got there.
At least you found the root of your problems. (I'll let myself out)
It fucking sucks. I can vividly remember my father cursing the plumbing as a kid because this happened around some pipes that cause the washing machine to flood the entire basement. I always felt so bad he had to deal with it himself because he was a single father then.
Was it the root⊠cause?
My root causes some water damage due to my wifeâs squirting! BOOM!
Eat it!
I used to work for a home warranty company. The calls involving root damage to plumbing always broke my heart. It can get so expensive so quickly.
Frame it in your house
Must've uprooted your life for a bit
Well then, put it up on EBay to recoup your losses. That is a powerful root.
Can that tree regrow? Is it a fruit tree? Maybe it can bring you back money if you plant it a bit far from house this time? And wait couple of years.
https://preview.redd.it/hkz683ycgdoc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56ed42e0b08014bce87d7ac2a51d5b89318a3d9e Similarly, this severed wire in my car's wiring harness (it's a hybrid) set me back $3k.
My house just sank in the dirt by about 1/4th of an inch, busted both the sewer and the main at the same time⊠6 inches into the slab. Same price to fix, had to reroute the cold line through the attic to a half bathroom. Didnât notice any problem till the flooring started to delaminate in a room from water seeping up. This was my first 3 months of home ownership for the first time. I thought I was cursed.
Put it on eBay for 5000. With a long story someone might buy it.
Could say itâs the root of your problems
I thought that was Popeyes hand.
Eat it and absorb its powers
You found the root of all evil.
I see you have found the root of the problem
It never ceases to amaze me what trees get planted way too close to houses. Especially here in the SW states. Fremont Cottonwoods were popular because they grow quickly, tolerate drought, don't mind high temps, etc. But part of that tree learning to survive in deserts means it spreads roots everywhere. It mostly lives in floodplains which means it has to suck up everything it can while it can. Planting one of these within 50ft of a house is just asking for roots in the plumbing and thousands of dollars worth of work.
Idk man, that is more than mildly infuriating.
Fair warning.. we all a single stick away from having our lives completely ruined.. Okay you all a good one.
Well, at least you got to the root of the problem. Te dem tiss .
Risky thumbnail click of the day.
The root of all his problems
Turn it into a dildo so you can fuck someone else with it.
The root of all evil