splicing sewer line |
Like his predecessors on the award stage, Sloane failed to think through his assignment, running straight to instructions for assembling a run of PVC pipe. He even opened with a questionable statement, explaining that,
"Most household sewer lines are made of either ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) or PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) plastic."
"The home's main sewer line... runs from the basement/buildup area underground to the city sewer, or to a private septic tank."That's not very useful for the millions of houses built on slabs, is it... and then there's this weird construction:
"...individual sewer lines from your water fixtures connect to the main sewer line via a connecting coupling. This coupling is the same diameter as the main sewer line, and has a side spout that fits to the sewer pipe running to the water fixture."A "coupling" with a "spout"? Interesting... Oh, and the "spout" is not necessarily the same diameter as the sewer main – in fact, it rarely is.
Once he got that bullshit out of his system, Steve charged ahead with his "instructions":
- "Use a circular saw to cut through the main sewer line."
- "Take out the 2-inch pipe section [you just cut]."
- "Brush PVC primer [and cement on] both sawed pipe ends... [and] the inside ends of a PVC connecting coupling."
- "Squeeze the connecting coupling between the main line's sawed pipe ends, pushing the pipe ends into each end of the coupling..."
So, like Billy Brainard and Laurie Brown before him, Sloane's ignorance has doomed him to a life with a Dumbass of the Day award on his resume. Pbbbbt.
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