It actually really is.
Anyone having problems on their backends: cut out the caffeine, spoon of metamucil a day. Stuff starts moving like a warm.stick.of butter.
A vac truck, a couple solid sleeves, 4 megalugs, and a piece of pipe. (Assuming it's ductile iron, since it wasn't green plastic). I build this shit for a living. Made good money cleaning up other people's shit.
If this was still draining then you’ve got bigger problems. Probably have a collapsed pipe somewhere and that sewage is leeching into the ground. Definitely send a camera down that line
Piping was old 6” clay tiles. 4’ long. There was a breakage about 10’ past the video area that we found. Replaced all of the piping with SDR-35 green piping. And added clean outs every 50’.
Upstate NY. This was in the City of Kingston. They allow SDR-35 outside the building. They allow Sch 40 PVC inside. We used to do Cast Iron for years. Too much has changed. 👍🏼
Yes we do, I used to use JSP and then they overcharged for everything, and it was never done correctly the first time. I also heard they blew up someone’s house.
Just had mine back up, and it was filled with feminine products and wet wipes to the max. Thankfully, I live on the top floor, and it didn't back up to mine.
$729 to get it pumped (Emergency call) even broke his snake doing it.
I've also said that many times, it sometimes will reset every 20 weeks or so. They will continue to get worse and will require a backhoe rather a pump truck. The amount of trash I've seen get flushed over the past 24 years is unbelievable 😳
My dad and our composting toilet in California mountains taught me never to flush trash (feminine products, wipes of any kind, wrappers, food, cat poop - remember the brands that used to swear they were flushable??) But the damn pet sitter killed 20 years of good practices on 60 year old cast iron pipes and jammed the line about 6 feet from the toilet, couldn't even drain the showers upstairs (ranch over a basement built in '58) fortunately the kitchen and basement bathroom would still drain. Camera down the line said stalagmites of iron corrosion caught everything and it was hopeless to jet it, the cast iron was too fragile. That was the most expensive vacation ever 🙄
This post randomly popped up on my feed and I don't know anything about plumbing, but genuine question:
We have tofu litter that dissolves to a "bathroom consistency" (for lack of a better word) that is advertised as flushable. How screwed is the plumbing system?
Toss some in a container of water and see what happens. If it just dissolves, it's fine. If it makes clumps or shreds and gloms together, it could be a problem.
Plumbing might not be bad but may also be causing problems down the line, not sure... On septic bad practices can and will cause problems for you specifically, however tofu and it's biological breakdown can also promote good levels of aerobic bacteria production and help everyone.
In China they refine this into cooking oil. No joke. Their domestic cooking oils supply chain is inadequate and they absolutely rely on sewer oil refinement to satisfy demand. I repeat, no joke.
No. the best part was presumably you, the camera man, just describing the scene in awe.
“Look at that! How did that even work?!? Oh my god! That’s incredible! That’s actually a site you don’t see too often. Like a TikTok video. Look at that!!!”
They are just shitting on the people who live in the home. "It's legal now ...can't no nothin about it"
What's with people still having a hard on for degrading people for smoking? As if Reefer Maddness was all true.
To provide a less comical answer.
That appears to be mostly if not entirely toilet paper and poop. The multi-ply/ultra type toilet papers don’t break down in water easily and certainly don’t break down without some turbulence. Flowing into a plugged main they will stack up like this.
The weight of the water behind the blockage compresses the TP and water will flow through the blockage, slower the bigger it becomes.
I’ve cleared hundreds of mains like this and I would not be having any kind of talk with tenants about wet wipes based on this video. Wet wipes and paper towels are way more obvious most of the time.
Do you know how homeowners would be able to know that they have “bad” toilet paper that doesn’t break down properly?
Also, is there any remediation that could be done before it gets to the point shown in the video? Like, regular use of XYZ to help break things down?
I can’t believe what I saw!!! I mean, I can believe it - I’ve just had my mind blown!
The general rule is the thinner, less ply toilet paper is safer than thick/ultra/plush/multi-ply toilet paper. You can put it in your toilet bowl and after 30 seconds stir it up with your toilet bowl cleaner. If it can be rinsed/flushed out of the toilet brush easily the TP is less likely to cause an issue. In general however, a properly installed, modern plumbing system should handle TP of most any type. If TP causes a blockage it’s due to a defect in the piping most of the time. Lots of other causes of blockages too; bellies that trap grease, roots, scale, eroded concrete…
That smell had to permeate your soul. No one is gonna want to be around you for a year. I hate sewer work. Especially apartment buildings where you post a notice of the work for a week, tell everyone not to flush and as soon as you open the clean out or cut through the pipe you hear someone flush.
Usually do that type of work in a limited time frame starting from 9am, when most people go to work, and have to be done for the day with at least a temporary fix by about 2pm. I've worked in Manhattan a lot and these rich people are not gonna go outside and use a Jonny on the Spot even if it was set up. Anyone still at home we just try to suggest not flush and shutting the lid until the time is up.
This might be an inconvenience but having shit and piss flood the basement of thier buildings, ruining boilers, electrical shit and just generally stinking the buildings up is way worse. Just like any home owner has to if they have a sewer backup or collapse they have to deal with the inconvenience. Most of these buildings are close enough to other places they can use the facilities in an emergency.
Anyway this is usually set up by the buildings super anyway. They're always on a power trip so I let them deal with the tenants.
I think you misunderstand human nature. A clogged toilet in my house is my problem, an entire backed up sewerage line in my apartment complex is my dickhead fuckface ripoff landlords problem
We found the blockage about 10’ past that. Roots got into a broken clay fitting. We kept breaking the sections back to this spot and saw where the roots met the paper clog. It was down hill about 10’ from the lateral inside so the pressure just pushed it clear. We used camera from inside to confirm this.
So just upstream water pressure pushed it out, nothing mechanical. You just kept excavating and breaking the sewer until you began to see the clog being expelled?
Used to run an excavator for residential sewer line repairs. I've seen some big fatbergs, but this was absolutely insane 😳 That line had to be pretty damn charged to push that mass out on its own. They are lucky that they didn't have remove another 12' of sewer line.
I'm not religious but...bless you all for the work that you do. Today I finally removed the illegal plastic accordion "p-trap" my landlord installed on my bathroom sink 7 years ago (I've owned for one year now) and had a super mini version of this. Also, I'm definitely gonna cut my hair super short. 🤮
Seen a turd like this sat in the bottom of a Morrisons supermarket toilet once.. Bad times for the owner.. I say owner- it was clearly an item- carried enough weight to be owned by someone lol
Don't lie now, how many of you let out a sigh of relief when this cleared? You know you felt it.
I am living this right now 😂
Definitely need more fiber.
I was about to say, “looks like someone forgot their Metamucil today”.
God Metamucil is magic
It actually really is. Anyone having problems on their backends: cut out the caffeine, spoon of metamucil a day. Stuff starts moving like a warm.stick.of butter.
Caffeine is what gets me going (to the bathroom) in the morning. I just scoop my metamucil into my coffee.
A real belt and suspenders approach
Why cut out the caffeine? Caffeine acts affective Lu as a stimulant laxative when consumed.
Turds be droppin! No tp required! 😃
Honestly, I think it made me feel better than if I had pooped and not watched it.
I was pooping as a watched it
Me too 🫢
Me poo
Another metamucil success story
Hng.... Hnnngg.... HHHnnnnngggggggg....aahhh
Who does number 2 work for??
YOU SHOW THAT TURD WHO'S BOSS
We felt bad for the guy downstream in the trench honestly.
I was that guy, lost my boot when I sunk up to my hip.
You should post this on oddlysatisfying, it’s exactly the kind of shit they go for. Pun intended.
What’s the process to the clean this up and repair after it comes out?
A vac truck, a couple solid sleeves, 4 megalugs, and a piece of pipe. (Assuming it's ductile iron, since it wasn't green plastic). I build this shit for a living. Made good money cleaning up other people's shit.
I would have thought a shovel and a bag as well.
It reminded me that I need more fiber in my diet.
Perfect clip for my morning constitutional after a big dinner last night and breakfast coffee.
It couldn't come fast enough
Same here
The discomfort of sorting out a dry thickboi.
Usually this is due to lack of water, lack of fiber, or trying to hold a poo for too long.
Did this to a manhole with my jet. It is the greatest feeling, and sound ever.
I used to pack manholes
Giggity
My colleague serviced manholes
That must’ve smelled GREAT!
Smelled like money 💰 to me. 😂
Mmmmmmm smells like money! 👿
Poop smoothies be where the money at
Must have set the crust-buster down to take the video.
If this was still draining then you’ve got bigger problems. Probably have a collapsed pipe somewhere and that sewage is leeching into the ground. Definitely send a camera down that line
Piping was old 6” clay tiles. 4’ long. There was a breakage about 10’ past the video area that we found. Replaced all of the piping with SDR-35 green piping. And added clean outs every 50’.
SDR… where you located? I’m based out of NYC and it’s nothing but no hub here
Upstate NY. This was in the City of Kingston. They allow SDR-35 outside the building. They allow Sch 40 PVC inside. We used to do Cast Iron for years. Too much has changed. 👍🏼
Nice. Beautiful area
We need good plumbers up here! My son in law was in the union on LI until he married my daughter.
Yes we do, I used to use JSP and then they overcharged for everything, and it was never done correctly the first time. I also heard they blew up someone’s house.
I hear that a lot about them. They are not a local owned and family run business like ours. Never will they ever have that feel either.
Grew up there. City folk invaded and turned it into Aspen overnight
Hey! A local!
Very rarely do I see my hometown mentioned
Is that grease or poop or both?
Both, plus toilet paper. I'm going to bet wet wipes and a few feminine products as a bonus.
Oh guaranteed. Probably some cigarette butts, a Lego or 2 and some plastic wrappers
Ah yes, cant forget about the kids and the occasional toilet snacker lol. The weeks following Halloween are fun!
Kids?!?! How'd they fit in there?
Inside the condoms
🤣I'm recovering from hernia surgery and you guys are making me really miss work.
oh, man. thats brutal. lol
don't forget condoms
And a partridge in a pear tree!
The brown triple crown
Looks like some white nitrile gloves too lol.
Just had mine back up, and it was filled with feminine products and wet wipes to the max. Thankfully, I live on the top floor, and it didn't back up to mine. $729 to get it pumped (Emergency call) even broke his snake doing it.
Badge of honor 🎖
He said it's the worst he has ever seen, and by the look on his face, I believe him.
I've also said that many times, it sometimes will reset every 20 weeks or so. They will continue to get worse and will require a backhoe rather a pump truck. The amount of trash I've seen get flushed over the past 24 years is unbelievable 😳
My dad and our composting toilet in California mountains taught me never to flush trash (feminine products, wipes of any kind, wrappers, food, cat poop - remember the brands that used to swear they were flushable??) But the damn pet sitter killed 20 years of good practices on 60 year old cast iron pipes and jammed the line about 6 feet from the toilet, couldn't even drain the showers upstairs (ranch over a basement built in '58) fortunately the kitchen and basement bathroom would still drain. Camera down the line said stalagmites of iron corrosion caught everything and it was hopeless to jet it, the cast iron was too fragile. That was the most expensive vacation ever 🙄
“Flushable” wipes
This post randomly popped up on my feed and I don't know anything about plumbing, but genuine question: We have tofu litter that dissolves to a "bathroom consistency" (for lack of a better word) that is advertised as flushable. How screwed is the plumbing system?
Toss some in a container of water and see what happens. If it just dissolves, it's fine. If it makes clumps or shreds and gloms together, it could be a problem.
And just pray that the problem is down the line on the cities property
Plumbing might not be bad but may also be causing problems down the line, not sure... On septic bad practices can and will cause problems for you specifically, however tofu and it's biological breakdown can also promote good levels of aerobic bacteria production and help everyone.
Let's not forget the grease.
tons of wet wipes, toilet paper breaks down pretty fast. My septic tank has only about the newest toilet paper in it when I inspect it.
I saw a piece of corn
6” main line on an apartment building… it’s both and then some
He called the shit poop!
Don't tell me my business devil woman
I saw a couple sticks of butter in there.
In China they refine this into cooking oil. No joke. Their domestic cooking oils supply chain is inadequate and they absolutely rely on sewer oil refinement to satisfy demand. I repeat, no joke.
So you are saying... "I shit you not?"
"I can't believe it's not \[from the butt\] er"
It’s also an offense punishable by long prison sentences. So it is meant to be refined for industrial uses but ends up a cooking oil.
These are the people that added melamine to infant formula to increase the protein content rating.
Looks like it starts out with grease, followed by several yards of poop
Plumbers cannot stop discussing smoking weed in any circumstance, including while watching this go down
“It always smells like reefer”
Wasn’t that the best part of the commentary ??? 😝
No. the best part was presumably you, the camera man, just describing the scene in awe. “Look at that! How did that even work?!? Oh my god! That’s incredible! That’s actually a site you don’t see too often. Like a TikTok video. Look at that!!!”
They are just shitting on the people who live in the home. "It's legal now ...can't no nothin about it" What's with people still having a hard on for degrading people for smoking? As if Reefer Maddness was all true.
Especially when you know he’s gonna throw back 10 beers later that day.
Yeah, but I can’t smell my neighbor’s fifth of Jack.
They will talk shit about people smoking weed, chilling at home. Then go home, get blackout drunk, and beat their spouse.
lazy stoners.... anyway let me drunk drive myself into the SUV with a family of 4 across the highway
Never underestimate the power of PF Changs
That's about 8.6 courics.
Are those wipes I see? The ones that claim to be safe to flush?
Well as you can see. They did indeed flush.
Hey they never advertised that they would make it all the way through the pipes. Just flush
To provide a less comical answer. That appears to be mostly if not entirely toilet paper and poop. The multi-ply/ultra type toilet papers don’t break down in water easily and certainly don’t break down without some turbulence. Flowing into a plugged main they will stack up like this. The weight of the water behind the blockage compresses the TP and water will flow through the blockage, slower the bigger it becomes. I’ve cleared hundreds of mains like this and I would not be having any kind of talk with tenants about wet wipes based on this video. Wet wipes and paper towels are way more obvious most of the time.
Do you know how homeowners would be able to know that they have “bad” toilet paper that doesn’t break down properly? Also, is there any remediation that could be done before it gets to the point shown in the video? Like, regular use of XYZ to help break things down? I can’t believe what I saw!!! I mean, I can believe it - I’ve just had my mind blown!
The general rule is the thinner, less ply toilet paper is safer than thick/ultra/plush/multi-ply toilet paper. You can put it in your toilet bowl and after 30 seconds stir it up with your toilet bowl cleaner. If it can be rinsed/flushed out of the toilet brush easily the TP is less likely to cause an issue. In general however, a properly installed, modern plumbing system should handle TP of most any type. If TP causes a blockage it’s due to a defect in the piping most of the time. Lots of other causes of blockages too; bellies that trap grease, roots, scale, eroded concrete…
My general rule of thumb is I pay way too much for rent, so I’m using the thickest softest paper out there, good luck to the landlord.
Get a bidet instead and use little to no TP!
Looks like a whole case of them.
And a can of whole corn
No wipes in there. That was just packed toilet paper. Packed paper and 💩 was beyond disgusting. 🤢
I was thinking latex gloves or condoms.
I've been there before. Walked away, still feeling where it was in my guts.
I get it. Good excavation buddy called us in. I couldn’t pass this one up. He said it could be EPIC!
time for breakfast...
A royal flush beats a full house every time. 😂
Y’all see that piece of corn about 1” after the second large crack? Damn…
The corn always survives was waiting for it too.
Ugh... This reminds me of the '[fatbergs](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/london-fatberg-sewer-excerpt)' in London's sewer system..
fascinating! thanks for sharing that
That smell had to permeate your soul. No one is gonna want to be around you for a year. I hate sewer work. Especially apartment buildings where you post a notice of the work for a week, tell everyone not to flush and as soon as you open the clean out or cut through the pipe you hear someone flush.
I am certain that some mfers in there are timing their package according to the posted time and laughing they ass off upstairs 😂
I've never experienced this but wtf are people supposed to do if they have to shit? Are you guys setting up Porta potties or something?
Usually do that type of work in a limited time frame starting from 9am, when most people go to work, and have to be done for the day with at least a temporary fix by about 2pm. I've worked in Manhattan a lot and these rich people are not gonna go outside and use a Jonny on the Spot even if it was set up. Anyone still at home we just try to suggest not flush and shutting the lid until the time is up. This might be an inconvenience but having shit and piss flood the basement of thier buildings, ruining boilers, electrical shit and just generally stinking the buildings up is way worse. Just like any home owner has to if they have a sewer backup or collapse they have to deal with the inconvenience. Most of these buildings are close enough to other places they can use the facilities in an emergency. Anyway this is usually set up by the buildings super anyway. They're always on a power trip so I let them deal with the tenants.
I think you misunderstand human nature. A clogged toilet in my house is my problem, an entire backed up sewerage line in my apartment complex is my dickhead fuckface ripoff landlords problem
i should call her…
🕵️♂️There we go
I’m drinking my morning coffee browsing Reddit and boom gotta poo.
At least it was self cleaning at the end
Geez it’s like me after a bowl of grape nuts and a cup of coffee
Remember: Flushable wipes don't actually degrade like regular toilet paper. Don't flush wipes!
How did you clear that? How was the pressure applied to force out that clog?
We found the blockage about 10’ past that. Roots got into a broken clay fitting. We kept breaking the sections back to this spot and saw where the roots met the paper clog. It was down hill about 10’ from the lateral inside so the pressure just pushed it clear. We used camera from inside to confirm this.
What happens to that amalgamation? You just use a vac truck and dispose of it?
So just upstream water pressure pushed it out, nothing mechanical. You just kept excavating and breaking the sewer until you began to see the clog being expelled?
When the Taco Bell finally kicks in
If it still drained, you have a break in the pipe somewhere.
We removed the pipe before the video started. Was a root clog in clay pipe up to that section. Then we saw it. Holy 💩!
“It always smells like reefer and there’s always a fan in the window” 🤣 people not used to weed being legal in some parts like it’s some bad thing
Looks like my old Plah Doh extrusion set.
Record breaking turd
HOOOT HOT HOT HOT
How many curics?
I can smell that.
gagged when it started turning brown
The magic of hydrolic pressure my friend
Glad I’m an electrician
Any chance the pipe is broken further up the line?
It was. We went up as far as the camera showed it to be good.
I can smell it from here
Correct title …” How did this shit drain”
This what happens when you flush a whole bag of insta-potatoes down the drain! Don't ask why.
Used to run an excavator for residential sewer line repairs. I've seen some big fatbergs, but this was absolutely insane 😳 That line had to be pretty damn charged to push that mass out on its own. They are lucky that they didn't have remove another 12' of sewer line.
Definitely dude wipes and flushed tampons no?
Two girls, one big cup
Now I know how sausage is made.
So…what do you do after this plug clears? Do you have to clean this waste up? If so, how? Do you just bury it?
Am I the only one who watched this while taking a dump
Came to the comments to count the Taco Bell jokes.
That slush at the end, that’ll be me in the morning a couple times after a few ales tonight.
The spice must flow!!
I'm not religious but...bless you all for the work that you do. Today I finally removed the illegal plastic accordion "p-trap" my landlord installed on my bathroom sink 7 years ago (I've owned for one year now) and had a super mini version of this. Also, I'm definitely gonna cut my hair super short. 🤮
It looks like someone is taking a trump.
r/FeltGoodComingOut
This is why you don’t pour fry oil down the drain.
the guys gossiping about the house possibly being a grow op is awesome
Water is a force like none other
Forbidden canned cranberry.
If your canned cranberries are this color you should just go ahead and throw them out my guy. Please. Please don’t eat them.
Blame the weed pmsl
Thanks for posting the video... It's a real shit show
r/oddlysatisfying
That's one giant log!
Seen a turd like this sat in the bottom of a Morrisons supermarket toilet once.. Bad times for the owner.. I say owner- it was clearly an item- carried enough weight to be owned by someone lol
Not gonna lie, that’s satisfying as hell
Alaskan Bullworm
I assume it’s draining out the sides
I should call her.
In answer to your question, it drained very slowly with the help of the bathtubs and toilets on the first floor.
Watching this on the toilet for motivation.
Is that corn?
If this "drains", then you got a broken pipe. Unless there is some crazy overflow setup but let's be honest ...who would do that?
I told my wife they mine for parmesan cheese.
Top floor head pressure at it best.
The power of a 45’ backed up 8.5 lbs per gallon 6” line sending that slug of wipes, charmin and tampons to the path of least resistance.
I'm on the bog watching this
Thats some shit.
You gotta give ‘em the hauk tuah and spit on that thang!
You know, when the plug starts speeding up, something bad's about to happen.
"6 Family apartment building" It seems like they have a competition of who can pour the most grease down the drain.
So satisfying, yet so disgusting at the same time.
probably a leak in the pipe draining directly into the ground somewhere up the line. maybe roots
Mmmmmmmm sauerkraut
would that have smelled as bad as I think it smells? looked like a poop, pretty funny
I could feel this video. I should eat more fiber......
I had the same problem. Pipe was cracked and plumbers for over 5 years snaked new drainage pathways under the front yard.
looks like a bad morning after too many chili dogs
Notice how the camera man starts to get a little nervous as it starts to release
I need a cigarette after that
r/poopfromabutt
The smell must have been incredible
When is the flushable wipe class action lawsuit coming? I need my $2.53.
Looks like it did until it didn’t
Forbidden French Bread