Do the joints between Salt Glazed ground pipes commonly leak? I've just had to replace a broken section including gully. After running water through the new gully and connecting pipes, it appears that the next salt glazed joint is leaking bad enough for it to come through the clay pipe bedding back to where I've been working.
I should have figured this might have been an issue as there was a section of nasty black clay under all the junctions I was working at. But not an issue until I started digging below the salt glazed pipe level to create a pipe bedding for the plastic pipe. The house is on clay so I'm guessing the water didn't really go anywhere.
Should I dig down to the next section and replace it with plastic? Or dig to the joint and surround the joint with concrete or cement? I'm a little concerned that if I dig down and cut out the next section, the next section down will just do the same.
I should have figured this might have been an issue as there was a section of nasty black clay under all the junctions I was working at. But not an issue until I started digging below the salt glazed pipe level to create a pipe bedding for the plastic pipe. The house is on clay so I'm guessing the water didn't really go anywhere.
Should I dig down to the next section and replace it with plastic? Or dig to the joint and surround the joint with concrete or cement? I'm a little concerned that if I dig down and cut out the next section, the next section down will just do the same.