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Posted by Joseph Meehan on June 30, 2005, 12:24 pm
themeanies wrote:
> Long story short:
>
> Out of town, back to find slab leak and 75% of house flooded. The
> water actually came up in the master bathroom, leak was in the
> Kitchen 25ft away. Got leak fixed and house dried out. Now removing
> damaged cabinets and wall to repair. Got the toilet removed from the
> floor to find a mass of tiny roots embedded in the wax ring. This is
> where the water came up from under the slab. The roots do not appear
> to be inside the sewer line, just in the waxring from what I can
> tell. There is an external wall nearby, the only plants nearby are
> roses. Neighbors have lots of growth in their yard, but they are at
> least 40ft away. This root growth is also quite new as we had the
> toilet up about 3 years ago to lay ceramic tiles. No roots then.
>
> Any ideas about how to kill this stuff off and remove it? Whats the
> usual procedure with this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> tM
That's a new one. You can do what you want there, but you are not
likely to be able to kill of the roots. To do that would require killing
off the whole plant. Right now you don't know what plant it is. Assuming
the roses are close the the wall, it could be them, but really I would not
expect them to go under the footer and find there way that far, but a large
old rose bush.
Some trees could go 40 feet, and they would be a larger problem. I
suggest you figure this one out before you find that those roots are
damaging your foundation, which they can.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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