u/WhatsGoingJohn

Purchased a house built in 1995 recently in Eastern NC and I noticed a bad patch job in the laundry room. Behind a thin layer of mud and drywall mesh, this 8” length of flex duct (1st photo)duct taped to a 3” PVC pipe ( photo 2 taken looking down pvc pipe)Appeared! PVC pipe goes down into the slab and appears to head toward the master bath. This laundry room sits directly behind the master bath toilet.

It looked dry inside it and I did NOT catch a wiff of sewer gas coming out of it.

Maybe a Dryer vent I thought but a dryer vent wouldn’t go into the slab… and the current dryer vents to a different wall.

What could it be?

This trees roots span yard and pop suckers out of the ground relentlessly

Do I dig out the roots that cross the yard and keep tree or evict both?

Should I treat the lawn to retard or prevent the new tree shoots?

Zone 8A - eastern NC

First time owning an irrigation system. A quality company to come inspect/fix the backflow preventer that I knew was leaking. I was home and when I came outside, the New one was already installed. The first wall valve was cracked, likely from freezing but I expected they would have just replaced the brass instead of swapping for the $600 replacement.

What are you doing in the situation?

I haven’t tested the rest of the old unit to see if any other parts were leaking, but AIW for thinking the old one could have been fine with some new valves?