How to Remove Iron Ochre from House Drainage Sump Pump Line

How to Remove Iron Ochre from House Drainage Sump Pump Line

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I wanted to show you a job where Scott and his crew were flushing out all the sump lines and the basement drains. Everything had iron ochre in it.

We run this one here. We're using a high-pressure washer with a jet nozzle that pulls itself along and they feed it in to get all that iron ochre. Now iron ochre doesn't discriminate and the reason why I'm telling you this, this is on a home that is over $2 million, so and it's brand new. It's only a year and a half up, so that's how long it took to fill these pipes halfway.

This house was a pretty good size, so it had two sump pump lines and we had to clean both of them out. I'm going to show you some footage later in this video of, I put my phone down in a basement floor drain so that you can see all the pipes underneath this house. They were half full of iron ochre. Look at that is pouring into the creek behind the house. You know what else you're going to do. There's nothing you can do with this stuff.

We put them on a schedule, so now we're doing this every three months for this homeowner. It's a client of ours and we're taking care of them. That's the right way to take care of your floor drains a the tile around your house, your foot or tiles. Everything needs to be jetted. When you have iron ochre. If you don't take care of it, it will plug and then once it's plugged, it's really, really hard to get a jet through it. I've seen cases where it was plugged to the point to where you had to jet up to the area where it was plugged solid and then cut that piece of the pipe out.

So you've seen me do the wire tracking, that's what I would do so that I could say, okay, right here is where it's plugged solid. We dig with the excavator. We would cut the PVC schedule 40 right there and we would just cut it back as far as we had to to get through the blockage. That's not going to happen here. Not on our watch. We're going to be here every three months to flush this system out clean. So it's a tedious job and when it's this bad you just, you're jetting it multiple times. [...]

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