If you have a basement, you can see where the line goes through the wall. It is probably a straight line from that point to the street or alley depending on where it is. If in a group of track houses, it may angle to the property line and those two house will run in the same ditch. It can be anyplace, there is no set place it has to be, only the depth. If you don't have a basement, you can use the same directions and go from the main vent in the roof.
Either they are on a separate sewer line and connect to the main sewer line later on or they sewerage is pumped by means of a machine into the main sewer line.
Not exactly a sewer main normally flows by graviety and a forced main is a pumped system
3" house (building) drain allowable. 4" building sewer line needed for house from sewer main.
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You may not have a backflow preventer in the main line. This prevents anything coming back from the main line. It may be coming from your neighbors above you on the line.
A water or sewer main is as it sounds ,It is the main feed line that runs underground usually along side a street or easement from your house or place of business to connect you to these utilities.
5 inches of drop. 1/8 inch per foot.
Sewer Line The Woodlands
No you don't. The trap is inside the toilet.
A 3 or 4 inch pipe sticking straight up out of the ground? This is the clean out for the sewer line. If sewage is coming out of it, this means the sewer line is clogged or collapsed from there to the main city sewer. If you have a septic tank, the tank is full and needs to be pumped out.