The price sounds unrealistic to me. Ask around for a boring
contractor. They can send a cutter in that splits the original
pipe and pulls in a replacement line at the same time. You can
repair the one small break that you have identified. They can
pull a liner into the pipe that you have. I sure would not go
with the first 15K bid I received without additional input.

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DanG


"Mike" michael at ywow.org wrote in message
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Folks,

Need your opinion on a proposed sewer line replacement / repair.

We're in the process of buying a home in the middle of a major
city, and
have just done the home inspections. The sewer inspector did a
camera look
see with a fiber optic cable, and found a hole in the sewer
line,

approx 1 inch wide by 2 inch high.

It's under the sidewalk adjacent to the street. The house is on
a hill, and
there is a rock face / garden about 10 feet high (not quite
vertical) on the
house side of the sidewalk.

He's told us that it'll take about $15k to repair / replace the
line, and
that the repair will give us about 10 to 20 years of service.
There is some
settling / cracking in the sidewalk directly above the sewer
line.

The house was built about 50 years ago, and we believe that the
sewer line
is approx the same age.

Thanks,
Mike