Start with what is actually happening
You do not need to know what a lateral is, or what a cleanout is, to use this. Pick the description that sounds most like your situation.
Each one restates what you selected, separates what you noticed from what that establishes, and points you at one thing worth reading next. You can change your selection at any point, and nothing is sent anywhere.
What this page cannot establish
- choosing a situation here records what you noticed; it does not establish what is causing it
- SewerOwner cannot narrow this to a cause, a location, or a condition
- nothing you select is transmitted anywhere or seen by anyone
Which of these sounds most like your situation?
Pick one. You can change it at any time, and nothing is sent anywhere.
What would change the answer
- nothing to begin
- anything you already hold — invoices, a report, a notice — makes later steps more useful, but none is needed here
What to do next
Each situation leads to one guide chosen for it, rather than to a list of everything on the site.
If your situation is different
- None of the situations fit: Browse the full topic index
- You want to understand the system before describing anything: Understand how a residential sewer system is arranged
Related, and why
- Project brief
What you work out here can be recorded in a brief you keep and print.
- What we cannot determine
The limits that apply to every path through this orientation.