Contractor poured concrete over basement floor access holes
Contractors sometimes fill uncovered floor access holes and cleanouts with concrete without asking homeowners first. This eliminates critical secondary drain access, leaving homeowners with no way to reach the pipes except through the backflow prevention device.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Waiting for the contractor to return and clarifyDid this help you?
- 2Tapping the concrete with a hammer to see if it cracks outDid this help you?
- 3planning to tamp the area down, apply bonding agent to the edges, and fill it with pre-mixed concreteDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“It appears that they opened both covers of the holes and filled them with concrete as well.”source ↗
“the fact that he filled them up with out asking is concerning to me”source ↗
“I question it because there is no other drain access other than the backflow prevention device one.”source ↗
Where this came up
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