Cracked cleanout in basement

[vanhoand]

Hi,
New here and a DIY'er so bear with me.

I bought a house about 2 years ago with a walkout basement that has 1 finished (drywalled/insulated) side; the side you walk out. In one of the corners, there's a drain clean-out. I noticed water leaking around that area but thought it was due to poor grading outside the wall. I fixed that and the water went away but the area never dried out. I also noticed that the osb was pretty rotten in the area and the insulation was pretty nasty.

Today i finally got around to seeing what what was keeping things damp and found that the builder cracked a hole in the back side of the clean-out with a nail or staple from the back side and that's what's been causing my slow leak all this time. It was hidden pretty well which is why i never saw it earlier.

I'm going to attach 2 pictures to hopefully give a better idea of what I'm dealing with. Unfortunately, there's not a ton of room and I really want to avoid cracking concrete to put a new clean-out in. Any ideas would be great...

 

[unionplumber93]

They make a tool thats called a hub saver you will be able to replace the pipeing at the top of the long sweep with this tool it goes in a drill and it shaves the pipe out of the fitting

 

[johnjh2o]

They make a tool thats called a hub saver you will be able to replace the pipeing at the top of the long sweep with this tool it goes in a drill and it shaves the pipe out of the fitting

This is the tool unionplumber93 is referring to.

http://www.pascospecialty.com/catalog/PASCO_CATALOG_C.pdf

john

 

[vanhoand]

Perfect! Any suggestions on where I could pick on of those up?

 

[johnjh2o]

Google Pasco or Ram Bit

John

 

[vanhoand]

thanks for the info

 

[vanhoand]

got the tool. repaired the problem and no more leaks.

Thanks

 

[Chris]

This is the tool unionplumber93 is referring to.

http://www.pascospecialty.com/catalog/PASCO_CATALOG_C.pdf

john

Where has this tool been all my life? This could have saved me soo much time and money.

 

[johnjh2o]

You have to get out more Chris been using the tool for quite some time.

John

 

[Chris]

My problem is I don't do all that much plumbing being a pipeline guy, most of my stuff is big and and my fittings are ductile iron with a bunch of bolts holding everything together. You plumbers have a lot of cool tools that would come in handy for me tho.

 

[havasu]

I'm almost too embarrassed to admit this but I've had one of these in my storage cabinet for years, and for the life of me, I have no idea why or where I got it, but assumed it was just a fancy paint mixer!