J Noah
07-16-2005, 04:34 PM
Must say that I'd accept the gap at the back thing as not being a problem but our house has a history that includes broken sewer pipes at the foundation wall(2 separate pipes were both broken). The clay soil in the area does a good job of not letting to much get away from the house.
We have an exterior drain tile and when the sewer leaks were active, you could smell sewage when it rained and the footing tiles were pumping. They could open the inspection cleanout of their sewer pipe and see if the pipe was intact. If it isn't they are not doing themselves any favor by putting off a repair because eventually the pipe becomes mismatched and the sewage stops flowing. Our smell stopped very soon after the sewer line was fixed. It was broken flush to the foundation wall.
We have an exterior drain tile and when the sewer leaks were active, you could smell sewage when it rained and the footing tiles were pumping. They could open the inspection cleanout of their sewer pipe and see if the pipe was intact. If it isn't they are not doing themselves any favor by putting off a repair because eventually the pipe becomes mismatched and the sewage stops flowing. Our smell stopped very soon after the sewer line was fixed. It was broken flush to the foundation wall.