To most people, plumbing seems like it just has to do with your pipes. When you call a plumber to come into your home and find the root cause of a plumbing issue, you will probably expect them to stay inside the home to look into the issue and fix it. What some homeowners may not understand is that plumbing companies may sometimes have to dig up your property’s yard to resolve drain problems.
If you have bad pipes or bad plumbing and need more than minor plumbing repairs, your plumber may need to venture beyond the interior of your home or even the basement to ensure that the problem doesn’t keep cropping up. Otherwise, they’ll just be slapping a band-aid solution onto the problem.
Before you panic at the prospect of a plumber ruining your yard by digging into it, keep in mind that there are ways to avoid that solution if that sounds stressful to you. While it’s necessary for plumbers to resort to invasive methods of fixing a plumbing problem sometimes, following our tips to lower the risk of them taking the most damaging route can help you save your yard and your pipes at the same time
Most homeowners and contractors alike know how expensive and how much of a hassle plumbing issues can be. If a plumbing problem is with the homes appliances, such as the toilet, the laundry tub or one of the sinks, it can be fixed relatively easy. However, if the problem is further down the sewer line or, even as far as into the yard and the road, it can be a very big hassle to fix it. In recent times, a plumbing problem that was caused from down the line meant the need of digging into the yard and even sometimes into the road to locate the problem. Once the problem was found, work for many days would need to be completed in these areas, even with possible work needed at the manhole. Once the work was finished, the homeowner was then responsible for the costs of replanting the grass and any other damages that occurred. Fortunately, plumbing has improved over the years, and the trenchless rehabilitation plumbing method is now available.
Trenchless methods came on the market for residential homes about 10 to 15 years ago, but many consumers are still unaware that they are an option and because sewer pipe replacement decisions are often made when an emergency situation arises, it limits time to do important research. In fact, about 78% of Angie?s List poll respondents had not heard of a no dig sewer technology option. This no dig option is great for many plumbing problems, including lateral pipes problems, to replace an epoxy pipe and even for pipe lining problems. The epoxy lining cost of pipes may be one that many homeowners opt out of, because of the expensive and time consuming digging that may be involved further down the line. With the trenchless digging option, more homeowners may choose to replace their current piping with an epoxy pipe.
Plumbing is an important part of the home that should be constantly checked up on, to further prevent any large and costly repairs. Even if you have lived in your home for years, it is worth hiring a professional to examine your line. That way, you can budget for future repairs or replacement, and you won?t have to make snap decisions when an emergency happens. Inspection prices usually run between $250 and $350, but often pay themselves back two fold, because of the ability to spot any problems before they occur with the pipe anywhere on the line.
Plumbing can be a costly and a time consuming problem in a home. Many homeowners worry about their home?s potential for a plumbing problem. One of the costliest parts of plumbing solutions are the requirement of digging up the yard and sometimes even the road, when easy access is not available to the epoxy pipe. However, current plumbing methods allow for a trenchless option, or a dig free option that gives plumbers access to the epoxy pipe without the unnecessary digging of their yard and their land.
