For a small cost, looking inside your sewer line answers a question no home survey covers.
Especially worth it on the older streets
If you are buying one of the original Hanahan homes, that lateral may well be the clay pipe laid when the house was built in the forties or fifties. A standard home inspection will not tell you a thing about it, and it is among the more expensive things to inherit unknowingly.
What we tend to find
On the older side, roots at the joints and pipe that has narrowed. On the newer side, a section that has settled and now holds water, or debris left behind from construction. All fixable, and all much better known about before you commit than afterwards.
Before agreeing to any sewer work
Ask to see the footage. Roots, a sag, a crack and a collapse look nothing alike and cost very different amounts to repair.
What we will show you
- What the pipe is made of and roughly its age
- Any roots getting in, and where
- Low spots holding water
- Cracks, breaks and separated joints
- Whether it can be lined or needs replacing
- Where the line runs, marked at the surface