Thought: Can you find records of when/where gas lines
might have been/are left? It's pretty common with
their diggers to burrow through pipes of this kind with
gas lines. Doesn't sound like it's still there, but
might it have been at one time?

Just a thought.

Pop


"Mike" michael at ywow.org wrote in message

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