My parents have a leak in thier cast iron sewer pipe. The pipe is embedded in a concrete knee wall that is about 12″ wide by 18″ high by 6′ long. It sticks out from an exterior basement wall. The pipe enters at the top of one end of the wall and I assume exits the house were the knee wall intersects the basement wall. It is leaking though the concrete knee wall about 6″ from the base wall. I don’t know why they poured concrete around the cast iron pipe. Anyone have any brilliant ideas of how to remove the concrete encasing the cast iron pipe without busting up the cast iron pipe? I need to connect a new PVC sewer line to the cast iron pipe to fix the leak. This involves removing the concrete and I can’t figure out how to do this without breaking the pipe.
Thanks.
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Dont think you'll be able to pull off that trick.
You're going to have to find the pipe where it comes out of the wall outside and start your new piece there back to the exposed pipe inside.
My guess is that if the pipe is leaking.....its corroded in more places than one (especially encased in concrete )anyway.
BE well
andy
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Chuck,
I agree with Andy C. on this one. IMO and how I'd do it is to run a new pipe parallel to, and outside of the foundation, basically bypassing the bad section.
Jon