[GH85Carrera]

At my old bachelor pad house, the sewer pipe was the old orangeburg pipe. I had two huge pecan trees that one year made 200 pounds of pecans.

Anyway those roots would get in the pipe and I had to call a plumber buddy to come cut them out every couple of years. I had the clean-out marked, and a very short standpipe in the back yard. Just uncap that, and down went his rooter. He would pull out a large clump of roots each time.

I would flush a couple of cups of rock salt just as I left for the day to go to work about once per month. That would slow down the growth of the roots. They always came back. The only real fix would be new pipe, but I was too broke back then for that.