…in Broad Ripple, Meridian Kessler, SoBro, and downtown Indianapolis.
- The drain lines leaving most of the older homes in Indianapolis are made of clay pipe that is approximately 6″ in diameter.
- Some water lines that go into people’s homes are made of lead pipe.
- There are many different thicknesses of the lead pipe that Indianapolis plumbers used when installing water lines in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Water lines originally installed inside your home are composed of galvanized steel.
- Because Indianapolis has a combination stormwater/sewer drainage system, severe downpours often cause water to back up in the basement of your home.
- When downtown Indianapolis smells like rotten eggs, pressure and temperature have drawn warm sewer gas out of the downtown Indianapolis sewer lines.
- Water pressure in Indianapolis varies depending on where you are in the city.
- Water pressure is adjusted each year to accommodate sprinkler systems.
- As temperatures change with season, metal, along with everything else, contracts and expand often causing harm to plumbing systems.
- Older Indianapolis homes were often built with copper gutters and downspouts. (If you still have them, you are very lucky!)
- If you do not have a plumbing license, accepting money for performing plumbing services in the state of Indiana is against the law.
- It requires (4) years of schooling, (8,000) hours of apprenticeship, and passing an exam required by the state of Indiana to become a licensed plumber.
- Most of the drain piping originally installed inside older Indianapolis homes is composed of cast iron.
- Sewer lines coming out of your home are anywhere between 2′ and 15′ deep, but most are 8′ to 12′ deep.
- If your home was built before the 1950s the trenches for your water and drain lines were likely dug by hand. (Backhoes were not common before the 1960s)
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