C Craft
Well-Known Member
I got a problem that to fix properly could mean tearing up an outside wall, (inside and out), the outside monolithic slab, and possibly part of the interior floor/slab!!!
I will try to explain the situation. What happened is I think my son got onto of the pipe with the riding mower and the weight cracked the fitting. So here goes the explanation!!!
What I have is a fitting coming out of the slab to my septic tank that has a crack in the top of it. However that same fitting feeds to a stack in the wall as well as has a sewer main line coming into it!!!
I think what I am looking at it like this fitting, the one on the right! The small fitting goes to a stack in that wall and the other is the sewer line under the slab and where it continues out to the septic tank.
Looking at the image on the right, rotate it counter clockwise, one time and the part sticking out of the slab would be part of that Y or unequal tee, where it goes into the stack and the 4" line going to the septic tank. So getting into it to actually be able to replace the fitting would mean cutting the other lines and using a coupling to get back to the 4" line as well as the stack!!
So here is the question will fiberglass actually bond to PVC??? I am proposing cleaning the pipe/ rough up the surface and mix up some fiberglass and using fiberglass cloth wrap the pipe where the crack is. My problem is I do not know it the fiberglass would actually bond to the PVC!
Anyone know about the bond issue. If not fiberglass would an epoxy bond better to it!!!
I will try to explain the situation. What happened is I think my son got onto of the pipe with the riding mower and the weight cracked the fitting. So here goes the explanation!!!
What I have is a fitting coming out of the slab to my septic tank that has a crack in the top of it. However that same fitting feeds to a stack in the wall as well as has a sewer main line coming into it!!!
I think what I am looking at it like this fitting, the one on the right! The small fitting goes to a stack in that wall and the other is the sewer line under the slab and where it continues out to the septic tank.
Looking at the image on the right, rotate it counter clockwise, one time and the part sticking out of the slab would be part of that Y or unequal tee, where it goes into the stack and the 4" line going to the septic tank. So getting into it to actually be able to replace the fitting would mean cutting the other lines and using a coupling to get back to the 4" line as well as the stack!!
So here is the question will fiberglass actually bond to PVC??? I am proposing cleaning the pipe/ rough up the surface and mix up some fiberglass and using fiberglass cloth wrap the pipe where the crack is. My problem is I do not know it the fiberglass would actually bond to the PVC!
Anyone know about the bond issue. If not fiberglass would an epoxy bond better to it!!!