Expired pipes are a nightmare for Arizona homeowners 

Same for septic. Camera the drain field. Only the tank being pumped is required.

Lol welcome to the Wild Wild West😉😉

Throughout the entire country. This pipe product hasn't been approved for use since the 1970s, along with aluminum wiring. Sorry, not a breaking or even relatively new story.

"Substandard construction practices" is no excuse for a Consumer being a SUCKER !!! "Caveat Emptor" -- old Roman Saying "A Fool and his money are soon parted." -- Aesop "There's a SUCKER born every minute." -- social prophet, PT Barnum

It was the best product and most cost effective for the time. I'm sure they put it in right, more like substandard future vision

@@moosespeak6140 Orangeburg pipe is basically pressed tar paper. It was cheaper than cast iron, and that was the ONLY reason it was used. It was not the best product, nor was it installed improperly, it was just cheap and allowed by code at the time.

@Roger The backup in the tub is sewage, sewage contains e coli bacteria.

They're against infrastructure! 😂😂😂

"Orangeburg" was NOT a local brand. They went bankrupt when PVC pipe got popular after 1970 or so. It was usually just called "Orangeburg" -- much like Xerox made so many copy machines that people just called them all "Xerox machines". But yes, if buy a 50+ year old house, you can bank on replacing the sewage lines. And water heater(s), AC equipment, roof, driveway, etc.....that's why my house was $95K, not $350K.

@@Duke_of_Prunes what's your point? I said it was a brand name, I guessed at local because that brand is unknown here.

@@roywarriner8441 My point is that it's NOT local. "Orangeburg" is what it was called in New Orleans, Portland, and every other city I have remodeled houses.

@@Duke_of_Prunes you didn't need to explain it's a brand name. I said that. I'm not 'murican, it's only called that in dumberica. Bituminous fiber pipe was used globally. Everywhere else it is just bituminous fiber pipe. In Britain they Hoover their carpets, you use a vacuum. Get the point?

So you are telling me cardboard pipe impregnated with asphalt can be a problem? LOL

When something is made with inferior materials, it doesn't matter how well you maintain it. It just won't last.

Obviously they don't, since they are also surprised about their tub being also part of the same drain as the toilet . Lol 😅

Guess its easier for them to forgo inspection and cry about it after 🤣

Cast iron pipes rot out as well. Its old, nothing lasts forever.

@@mph5896 ABS is the way to go...

Retail? Californians we're paying over a hundred grand over ask for falling down moldy homes here. Then they stripped them to the studs. There are so many more problems they will find. I am stuck in an apartment because of the insanity. Not Arizona.

I got exactly 50 years out of the Orangeburg pipe on my house. It took me 2 days to dig it out, and a few hundred dollars to buy PVC pipe. No big deal. And my sister lived in East London for 20 years. I assure you that their plumbers are just as busy as ours are -- just as expensive, too.

lol you think massive bureaucracy and non-stop rules to follow are a good thing huh? go watch a few programs about the nightmare that is communism. how even party members were swept into gulags for simply not possessing their citizenship papers during a stop. massive government kills people.

@@rich2583 I bet Russia and Cuba don't have paper sewage pipes.

@@droolalot5795 lol I bet the majority of the people in Cuba don't have running water. Let alone underground pipes 😂

never use PVC for sewer pipes you use ABS, the black stuff... They are thick walled...

$3800 sounds really cheap to fix your poop problem. 😆

@@mph5896 I was thrilled! The crew was totally professional. They got here in a week, did the job in two days. I used to be a self-employed remodeler (back before I became a dilapidated old man) so I know quality work when I see it. Next best quote was $1800 more, and at LEAST 2 weeks before available!

The pipe in question is the building sewer. That would be the section of pipe between the foundation of the house and the property line. Bituminous fiber piping would not likely have been used inside the foundation. That would have been cast iron soil pipe with lead and oakum joints or mj. Basements with bathrooms are common as well. The building drain would be under the basement slab if you're connected to city sewers or a sewage ejector for septic. Either way the pipe is buried under the house which is the ideal installation.

@@roywarriner8441 I live in Southern California and I've seen stuff from add-ons to houses built over the septic tank garages completely built over the septic tank or garage is built over the leach field so you can't even service the drywall with chemicals or pump it down and maybe see if the rock is clogged I've seen where they've done solid foundations back in the 50s 60s and 70s and put this board paper pipe directly under the foundation I'm also seen because I'm near oilfields where they've used old drill pipe as sewer line the longest lasting septic tank I ever seen was on a house built 1907 made out of red wood beams personally I'm a fan of the terracotta but you can't get that s*** anymore not easily and not affordable there's some coastal towns that still use it because the plastic pipe will float because of the low water tables which probably isn't a problem anymore due to the drought but it could be again some day

@@roywarriner8441 but I do have to disagree about the pipe being buried under the house about it being the ideal installation I like raised foundation homes problem is if you want one you got to buy an old one or build yourself a new one the sewer Hanes below the floor and then the only time it goes in the ground is when it exits right outside the foundation to go out to the city that means if the sewer line never needs to be replaced you crawl under the house you replace it you dig up the yard you replace it there's no Jack hammering out the floors in your house less of a mess lot faster to replace

@@ligmaknutts2752 I started in the trade in the late 70's and it had been decades since bituminous fiber pipe was used here. It was mentioned in trade school more for historical interest than anything else. It hasn't met code here in my lifetime and I'm in my 60's. It was never approved for above ground use. It was not replaced by pvc. Clay tile was used here as well, but cast iron soil pipe replaced bituminous fiber, then decades later pvc became the go to material. It may still be in use in some industrial process piping though.

@@ligmaknutts2752 the pipe in question was not approved for above ground use in most jurisdictions. In the 27 years I've been in my house I have never had a problem with the underground piping on my property nor do I ever expect to. Pipes freeze here, even sewage piping. You want your building drain and sewer below the frost line. All houses here have full basements. The installation you describe is for summer use only cottages and everything would need to be drained in the fall.

The builder installed it and the city owned infrastructure is fine. When your toilet breaks do you expect the city to fix it? What about when a lightbulb burns out?

@@john_in_phoenix So in this instance it was the home owners pipes that failed. The 2 recent pipe failures in the valley that lost mollions of gallons of water were piblic infrastructures. Strawberry and Pine running out of water was due to the 3 stooges being in charge, for over 40 years. The reality is it's time for EVERYONE to get with this before more millions of gallons of our liquid gold is lost.

Gov isn't responsible til it hits the main. Past that, property owners responsibility. Pre purchase inspections! Sewer scopes are $100.

builder/owner been dead 30 years lol

Liable for what? Those pipes are at least 50 years old. The fact they lasted at least 50 years would indicate they were installed properly and to code at the time.

Your criteria for "FAKE NEWS" is incomprehensibly not well thought out. Trumper?