Why don’t you pop your head into the attic(assuming it’s a 1 story) and see if there is any roof bracing/ purlins/posts bearing on that section of wall…that will tell you if it is load bearing….if it is a 2 story…call a SE.

Looks good! I took out an entire wall in my kitchen too. A lot of these are common sense. When you go in the basement and determine your kitchen wall above is sitting on 3/4" subfloor between 2 floor joists running parallel with the joists, you know it's not load bearing, call me crazy.

it's open on one end. I have no trouble feeding things to the end, just need to reliably detect those things.

Well there's the other half of where you went wrong :). Please tell me you at least have a string already pulled through the pipe.

I have the same setup on my 20' wide patio but it's only a 2" pvc pipe. I made sure NOT to glue the caps on and TO have a string pre-run through to be able to pull anything if I do ever need to use it.

Good luck!

Its a low-price chinese produced product. You won't find a part for it. 3d printing might work but you still need to be able to make a design of it.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/JONES-STEPHENS-36-in-Length-Steel-Probing-Rod-with-Ball-Point-for-Pipes-P27003/313461380

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Ground probe would work. I've used this to help find drainage pipe.

I find my plumbers and bathroom contractors by word-of-mouth, mostly. Friends, family, co-worker recommendations, etc.

If you've stayed there for a while and its only just started 4-6 weeks ago, i would think its likely something has happened to cause the damp.

Potential roof/flashing leak letting water into the chimney, leaky gutter/downpipe etc.

pvc glue ...

Totally. I seem to have every photo of the trench and such, but just not where the end is! And...so many more plants and yard stuff now then when the photos were done! I am still far ahead of having to dig a new trench though, so....i'll take that win :)

Haha not yet, honestly. But it’s on the list

Could it be 3d printed?

Wire seven 10' lengths of rebar together and shove it through, knocking off the cap on the other end?

I don't regret learning it. There are good tutorials for using tasmota. I totally get needing a quick solve, and there a lot of good plug in timers like stated above.

Good move though, I also put pipes or conduits in the ground when digging. Also take photos of them with a tape measure displayed from ‘fixed’ objects.

You’ll quickly find the pipe - and will be glad you put it in 👍

I rented a camera snake and locator wand at my Home Depot last Saturday— 4 hours for roughly 225 dollars.

I had to do something similar to trace about 1/4 mile of 2" irrigation line. The product I used was a armadatech pro290 and 150' metal fish tape. The fish tape was sent up the pipe, and the pro290 transmitter was connected to the exposed fish tape. Then I used the pro290 receiver to find where the fish tape was.

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https://armadatech.com/upcp_product/pro290/

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edit: check your local tool rental company to see if they have something similar

I have used similar, for a similar problems.

With the first the pipe was about 30cm/ 1 foot, down under concrete paving slabs and sand/soil and it worked just fine. With the second the pipe turned out to be a lot deeper than I had been told and the sensor could not pick it up. For that I just pushed the probe as far into the pipe as it would go, put a piece of tape on the probe cable before I pulled it out of the pipe to indicate the length used then laid it out on the surface so I could mark the approximate position of the other end. I was about 20cm off so no big problem.

Put something big on the end of the snake. A gasline fitting would work. Zero the metal detector in the place you will be holding it. You need someone to move the snake in and out about a meter while you hold the metal detector still. When you get a hit, mark it and move in a grid. Rezero, and repeat until you determine where the center of the strongest signal is. If it isnt too deep, you could use a powerful fishing magnet as well.

Good idea! But...it's sealed on said other end some 60 feet away

How about flooding it with water to see if water comes out the other end? Or blast it with compressed air?

Just gave me the necessary ganas to do this on my own. Thanks!

I do! I hope this can work through dirt instead of just walls/studs, etc. Giving it a try - thanks for the suggestion.

i've done that. Just runs me into the other metal that is the vicinity and then i'm just back to exploratory shoveling!

Would love to see what you did for yours!