Another plumbing installation from hell.

It seems I just can't get out of the basement lately - with my recent blogs that is. A seller of a home I inspected yesterday finished off the basement and installed 2 complete bathrooms and a kitchen. They put in a waste ejector system inbelow the concrete floor for the wastewater from these plumbed-up rooms, but also ran the washing machine waste line, and main floor kitchen sink into the waste ejector system.

Yikes! The system overflowed when operated. Too many drain pipes are connected to the waste ejector system, and the open hole in the cover of the reservoir made the basement smell like a sewer. This is obviously a poor installation - food debris was present in the puddle left by the overflow. I'm glad nothing else was visible in the puddle.

The seller stated he did all the work himself. I kinda knew that would be the case for some reason.

Waste ejector systems work fine when installed correctly, but many people don't know that 2 pipes should exit the cover of the reservoir. One for the wasteline to the main waste or soil pipe (with a check valve in place so nothing flows in the opposite direction), and a second pipe to atmosphere, and when I say atmosphere I mean exterior atmosphere.

The seller also had hid mold on many wall surfaces by propping boxes and stored items against walls. Sneaky sneaky! The seller was not thrilled to see these things obviously. He was also now quite suspicious of the seller. Can you blame him? -Ray