Mel arrived at out house around 7PM. It had been a long day for him and it was about to get even longer...... \r
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After talking with us and checking the drains and cleanouts in our basement, Mel determined that the problem was a partial blockage in the main line. The next step was to find the cleanout in the front lawn, which turned out to be impossible. Our house is about 40 years old and to my knowledge, no one has ever had to use the cleanout. In fact, after probing the lawn for about 10 or 15 minutes and creating a ?Swiss cheese? pattern, he decided that the best approach would be to use the main cleanout in the basement. So Mel got the "big" snake out of his van and carefully maneuvered it down the 11 stairs to the basement.\r
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But, it didn't get any easier once he was down there. The cleanout plug refused to cooperate and he had to break the brass plug to get into the cleanout. We have a 50 foot set-back, so he figured that he would have to use about 80 foot of snake
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