Sewer Rats!

That is right, the rats do get into sewer lines. Every once in a while we do run into sewer clogs that were caused by sewer rats. Last week one of our mechanics pulled out a rat instead of a tree roots! It was his first encounter with a with dead rat wrapped around his sewer cleaning snake. As you can imagine it was not a pretty sight.
Being that it was our mechanics first such experience, he shared his experience with others and everyone had a light laugh. Our mechanic did not suspect anything odd with the sewer line or expect such a surprise (usually they do not expect surprises ), he took it as a normal clog with possible tree roots, since there were many trees on the front yard. He suspected something was wrong when he snaked the sewer line a few times, but every time he unclogged the sewer the water backed up again. He didn’t feel much resistance in the sewer line so was more inclined on believing the clog was due to muck or grease, but with muck and grease clogging a sewer line you can still feel the stoppage. He was determined to find out what was clogging the sewer line so he kept on trying. The sewer line itself was not more than 50ft long and the city sewer was flowing fine. There was no sign of a possible break in the line and yet, the sewer line was still clogging up after he unclogged it many time.
After snaking the sewer line a number of times without pulling back anything he finally pulled out a dead rat wrapped around his sewer snake. There was no way the rat could have come from the house side of the sewer line, since the caps on the trap were in place. Finally the clog was taken care of. The final step was to run a water test to make sure the sewer wouldn’t back up again.The water test was performed successfully without any backup.

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