On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:38:14 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
wrote:

On Jun 25, 11:17?pm, mm wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:46:55 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:







"mm" wrote in message
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Is home sewer pipe relining a good idea? ?As opposed to trenching and
laying in a new sewer pipe.

Does it really last 50 years like the plumbing companies that do this
claim?

The drain is supposed to have a leak and fill with water at a low
spot, and that's why the basement toilet will back up if the other two
toilets are flushed in quick succession, or if the washing machine
drains.

If there is a low spot, chances are water would just lay in there anyway.
I'm not so sure how a liner is going to solve that problem, but a new line
could.

So any low spot is bad. ?I suppose a leak in terra cotta pipe could
let water in or water out, and the water coming out could make the
ground settle more around the leak, if there were some place for it to
settle to, but could it wash enough away for the line to sag? ?

This had been a well line which worked fine until a week ago. ?So
presumably it had no low spots then.

The line was roto-rooted a couple days ago, and then again with bigger
blades, all the way out to the city sewer. ?I keep thinking a clogged
vent pipe might be a lot of the reason the toilet backs up.- Hide quoted text -

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did the line have roots?

I had a whole post written starting with the answer to this quetion
("I don't know."), but it wasn't finished, and by the time I got home
I got a message from my friend.

Last night I mentioned B's problem to a mutural friend C, who said he
should call a fourth friend D, so I called B and told him to call D,
and today he told me that he did, and D said to call the county. (That
a fifth friend of all of us E, an old man, had had a similar problem
and the county fixed it.)

So last night around 5:30 B called the county and they came out in
about 90 minutes, found some problem, fixed it, and everything is fine
now.

My friend didn't have to replace the pipe or reline it, and might not
have had to rotorooter it either. But he's happier about the money he
didn't spend than he is sad about the possibly wasted money he spent.
And no dug up yard, no replanting grass or mandatory watering etc.

E's house and B's house are only a quarter mile apart, and though one
is at the top of the hill and one at the bottom and around two
corners, they have the same floorplan. Probably the county sewers are
the same age too.



if so before replacing try rock salt dissolved say 4 times a year/.

its cheap, and very effective if roots are in the line. it kills the
roots but leaves tree and bushes unharmed.

25 pounds of rock salt dissolved in basement wash tub in very hot
water has served me great for over 12 years.

dissolve most then go out for day so no water is run