The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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I so much hope that this isn't my mains coming into my house, this little mess of tape and wire is on the wall outside of where my DB is. It was covered with a cut open coke bottle and decided to cut it open to see what it is while I was putting the trunking in on the right.

I thought it was maybe my earth spike, so never looked... but the thin pipe is going towards the back of the property, and the thick pipe doesn't seem to have anything in it. I'm nervous to touch it too much though, I choose life over knowledge.

I should probably connect a meter to it and see if there's any power coming through there, but it's so dirty and messy that I'm not looking forward to scratching in there.

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SAguy said:
I so much hope that this isn't my mains coming into my house, this little mess of tape and wire is on the wall outside of where my DB is. It was covered with a cut open coke bottle and decided to cut it open to see what it is while I was putting the trunking in on the right.

I thought it was maybe my earth spike, so never looked... but the thin pipe is going towards the back of the property, and the thick pipe doesn't seem to have anything in it. I'm nervous to touch it too much though, I choose life over knowledge.

I should probably connect a meter to it and see if there's any power coming through there, but it's so dirty and messy that I'm not looking forward to scratching in there.

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Your mains power should be coming from the road and not the back of the property z, unless something weird happened in your neighborhood at one point..
 
WAslayer said:
Your mains power should be coming from the road and not the back of the property z, unless something weird happened in your neighborhood at one point..
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That's what I was thinking too, so I'm not entirely sure what this is. I'm going to put a meter on it later and see if one of my breakers perhaps kill power to it.
 
Hi,

I have a weird question. Has anyone replaced their home's cement drain pipes with plastic ones, and how much did it cost.

Its an old house, about 10m of the run is under brick paving and stone slabs, the rest under grass.

The tree roots are causing blockages every few months and it is just getting ridiculous.
 
HibiscusTunes said:
Hi,

I have a weird question. Has anyone replaced their home's cement drain pipes with plastic ones, and how much did it cost.

Its an old house, about 10m of the run is under brick paving and stone slabs, the rest under grass.

The tree roots are causing blockages every few months and it is just getting ridiculous.
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Clay I believe, not concrete.

Anyway I haven't but I plan to do a section, it all depends how you do it I guess but I don't really know actual costs. The excavation will be the worst is all it is seriously deep.
 
I have discovered these guys, they will reline the pipe with a new inner pipe using the existing access.
nuflow.co.za

Nu Flow - Industry Leaders on Pipe Relining - Nu Flow

Nu Flow (Pty) Ltd specialises in the following services: CCTV Pipeline Inspection, Drain Cleaning/Jetting and Pipe Relining. Contact us Today.
nuflow.co.za nuflow.co.za

Hope they get back to me soon, not keen on digging up the driveway
 
Hi guys

Can you recommend a builder in the JHB North area, looking for someone decent, preferably accredited.
 
HibiscusTunes said:
I have discovered these guys, they will reline the pipe with a new inner pipe using the existing access.
nuflow.co.za

Nu Flow - Industry Leaders on Pipe Relining - Nu Flow

Nu Flow (Pty) Ltd specialises in the following services: CCTV Pipeline Inspection, Drain Cleaning/Jetting and Pipe Relining. Contact us Today.
nuflow.co.za nuflow.co.za

Hope they get back to me soon, not keen on digging up the driveway
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What till you get the quote - I wanted this done in one of my bathrooms - it was cheaper to pull all the pipes and retile the entire bathroom.
 
The inspection is R2000 ex vat. Can you give some insight as to the costs to repair your problem using NuFlow @xrapidx ? Currently paying R1000 once a month to get the drain unblocked is getting old.
 
HibiscusTunes said:
The inspection is R2000 ex vat. Can you give some insight as to the costs to repair your problem using NuFlow @xrapidx ? Currently paying R1000 once a month to get the drain unblocked is getting old.
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I had poor plumbing - cheap class 0 copper pipe everywhere - it kept bursting - we had dozens of leaks during our first years of ownership, destroying bathrooms, ceilings, etc. Typical insurance would only replace the "damaged" section - so the wall in our one bathroom was opened up for five different pipes.

It was 21k to just do the pipes in the walls for our small bathroom in 2016. (this is from ceiling down to tap/toilet/etc). I think it was R2,300 per pipe - and then R7500 for "extras"
 
xrapidx said:
I had poor plumbing - cheap class 0 copper pipe everywhere - it kept bursting - we had dozens of leaks during our first years of ownership, destroying bathrooms, ceilings, etc.

It was 21k to just do the pipes in the walls for our small bathroom in 2016. (this is from ceiling down to tap/toilet/etc). I think it was R2,300 for pipe - and then R7500 for "extras"
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Damn! So relining a 20m run with multiple access points will be expensive!
 
xrapidx said:
I had poor plumbing - cheap class 0 copper pipe everywhere - it kept bursting - we had dozens of leaks during our first years of ownership, destroying bathrooms, ceilings, etc. Typical insurance would only replace the "damaged" section - so the wall in our one bathroom was opened up for five different pipes.

It was 21k to just do the pipes in the walls for our small bathroom in 2016. (this is from ceiling down to tap/toilet/etc). I think it was R2,300 for pipe - and then R7500 for "extras"
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HibiscusTunes said:
Damn! So relining a 20m run with multiple access points will be expensive!
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you guys are talking about very different piping... copper pipe is like 8 times the price of pvc pipe if not much more actually.
 
Steamy Tom said:
you guys are talking about very different piping... copper pipe is like 8 times the price of pvc pipe if not much more actually.
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This is not for the actual pipe - its for relining the pipe. Not sure if the process is different depending on PVC vs copper?
 
Steamy Tom said:
ah ok i see. that crazy because the runs are so short in a bathroom and the pipe inside area is also a fraction of that of drain pipe
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Yip - thats why I said it was cheaper to pull the pipes and retile the bathroom.
 
As far as I understand the relining process is the same. Clay or copper pipes are relined with a PVC pipe internally.
 
xrapidx said:
I had poor plumbing - cheap class 0 copper pipe everywhere - it kept bursting - we had dozens of leaks during our first years of ownership, destroying bathrooms, ceilings, etc. Typical insurance would only replace the "damaged" section - so the wall in our one bathroom was opened up for five different pipes.

It was 21k to just do the pipes in the walls for our small bathroom in 2016. (this is from ceiling down to tap/toilet/etc). I think it was R2,300 per pipe - and then R7500 for "extras"
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Wait, 21k to reline what is either 15 or 20mm pipes..?
 
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