Or are you like me and you’re asking “what the heck” is a clean out pipe. It didn’t seem all that important to me either, otherwise wouldn’t we all know what it is? Well when my sewer started backing up into my house, I found out it’s very important. Recently I heard this unfamiliar bubbling noise inside my house. I followed the noise to my bathroom, to find a gusher of stinky water spewing up into my shower. I called a plumber post haste and the first thing he said was "go outside and unscrew the cap on your clean out pipe to release the pressure, so the sewer water can flow outside of your house instead of in it". No clue what that was, so I had him describe it. It's "usually ground level and is a round, white, plastic cap with a square nut on top". Hummm, I was drawing a big ole blank. I never remember seeing anything like that before. I quickly ran outside though, with a pair of plyers, frantically scouring through shrubs and mulch and ground cover, looking for something like he described.
All the while, I'm worrying that sewer water is flowing unabated through my house before I can locate it. Turns out, because I have an older home, I didn’t actually have a clean out pipe and had to pay a plumber to install one. I was lucky, that the gusher of water stayed within my shower. Not so lucky on the cost of installing the pipe however. I would suggest for anybody who doesn’t know where their clean out is, to take the time to try and locate yours before you have an issue. If you're buying a new home, that would be a great question to ask the previous owners or builders too. You will be glad you did.
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