Okay, my parents aren't nudists, but about 15 years ago, they bought a property from a naked guy and his naked wife who liked to have naked guests over all the time (this is actually important because of their plumbing). The place was built like a "compound", if you will, with small buildings everywhere for use as cabins and the like. Originally a very small (12'x16') house was built in the back of the property, and the guest naked people stayed in an RV there's still a RV hookup on the septic tank). On the side of this house were built two outdoor showers - literally shower handles and shower heads sticking out of the outside wall, and a concrete pad with drains. The bathroom went to a septic tank built about 50 ft to the east. After a couple of years, a larger house (24'x20) was built on the other side of the septic tank, and set to use the same septic tank for its bathroom and kitchen. My parents bought the place and demolished some buildings (leaving the little house) and added on to the larger house, so it now has two bathrooms and a larger kitchen. Last week, while Christmas guests were over, I started hearing bubbling from the toilet in the older small house where I'm staying. I went inside to find out those toilets were bubbling as well, and someone was using the shower. I went back to the smaller house and could smell raw sewage, and then realized sewage had backed up into the drains of the outdoor showers(:eek:!) - it appears the naked people actually drained those outdoor showers into the septic tank, and it had been open for the past 20 years since they had been built(:eek::eek:!!) Worse, an hour later, after getting a septic tank service appointment in the morning, Mom decided to do laundry, and something stopped up the shower drains and so the toilet in the small house (which is lower than the pipes in the larger house) backed up into the floor. For lack of anything else to do with no septic service available until the next day, I went outside and dug up and busted the drainpipe leading from the small house to the septic tank, so that stuff would stop coming up the toilet. The next day, we got the septic tank drained and the guy pulled a large root ball from the entrance hole in the tank. Everything seemed to be draining fine from the big house, so he put the lid back on and left. I then began working on the sewer pipe I had busted from the little house. Once I cut the sides of the pipe even in preparation for installing a splice with rubber fittings, I noticed immediately that there was standing water in it :mad:. I spent three days trying to clear this clog out using a snake, a water hose, and finally a Drain King - to no avail. I finally resorted to digging everything up and then discovered what's going on: [ATTACH]43908[/ATTACH] The pipes I've colored gray actually are gray, which leads me to believe that these pipes were added in order to make the weird 180, when the newer, big house was built. The old pipes probably went from Jct. B to Jct. E. I think the clog is at Jct. C, and might possibly be another root ball that was pushed up that pipe when the tank overflowed. It's hard to tell, though, if you're at the clog or at a 90 degree bend in the pipe when you're working 60 ft. away and the tool won't go in any farther. So here's what I'm thinking I should do: 1.) Take the outdoor showers out of the equation. Take out Jct. A and replace with a sweep "y" and a 90 bend towards the surface (on the side the outdoor shower pipe is on now) and install a cleanout, then cap both ends of the outdoor shower pipes (they haven't been used since the naked guy left, and there's no reason for them to drain in the septic tank - let them drain in the yard if they're ever used again). 2.) Cut the pipe immediately above and below Jct C, remove the clog, then replace Jct. C with a bigger sweep 90 so that it will flow better. I live in one of the few counties in the country with absolutely no building codes or sewer inspection (we do have electrical inspection), so I have no one to call, but I still want to do this right. Are the changes I have in mind good? This setup (somehow) worked for dang near 20 years now, so I'm not sure about changing more than this, but I'd do it if it needed to be done. One caveat is that this septic tank requires an internal punchout, so we can't go the obvious route of just moving the little house to a different intake - I'm not climbing in that septic tank, even if it was just emptied - not that I'm squeamish, I'm just worried about making a costly mistake in knocking it out. If we HAVE to go that route, I'll call a professional. Thanks in advance for any advice!

I have my sump pump installed in the basement and the water gets discharged in the backyard.My sump pump runs 24 hrs (every 2-6 minutes interval). Discharge pipe (2" white) is connected to the 4" corrugated pipe under the ground in my backyard.The problem is when there is heavy rain the water backflows from corrugated pipe and gets collected near the foundation where it is connected to the 2" white discharge pipe . Also at the sametime I see some water collected in the middle of backyard.This does not occur when there is no rain or not very heavy rain.It means pipe is not blocked. As a workaround I have disconnected the 4" under the ground corrugated and connected a new 2" corrugated pipe to the discharge pipe and releasing the water from that pipe.The issue comes in the winter when 2" corrugated pipe gets frozen. Please advise.