| 11. | To do that, look for the sewer " cleanout " outside your house.
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| 12. | I recall giving it a cleanout at least once in that time ( twice ? ).
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| 13. | If you have an ash cleanout door on the floor of the hearth, open it an inch.
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| 14. | Put the material in a cleanout, not a fixture, because it can damage a fixture drain.
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| 15. | If that does not work, enter the trap through the cleanout plug at the bottom of the trap.
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| 16. | If you have a cleanout door in the chimney in the basement, or outside, open that a bit, too.
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| 17. | Q . My chimney has a 2-foot-deep well at the bottom, just below the outside cleanout door.
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| 18. | For all of these reasons, most traps can either be disassembled for cleaning or they provide some sort of cleanout feature.
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| 19. | So, have a chimney sweep check the bottom of the chimney, by opening the ash cleanout door and taking a look.
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| 20. | Q . There is a cleanout plug in the four-inch iron pipe in my basement that leads to the septic tank.
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