What this job is
We are not a plumbing company. If the pipe is collapsed, you need a plumber. If the camera shows roots at intact joints, isolation plus a cleaning is the durable pair. We will tell you which one you are looking at.
Heights, Montrose, Bellaire, older Pasadena, and town lots in Rosenberg still have clay or cast iron. New Katy PVC is not immune if it was laid in an oak’s drip line with unsealed joints.
The trench for a lateral barrier is deeper than a sidewalk job. We locate the pipe first. Cutting a lateral to save a lateral is not a service we sell.
Problems that actually show up
- Repeat plumber cuts on the same lateral
- Cast-iron or clay laterals in the Heights
- Slow drains that return after a cleaning
- A pecan over the run to the tap
- Camera showing roots at joints
- A new PVC lateral next to an old oak
Sequence
- Locate Cleanout, camera when you have one, probe when you do not. Mark the run.
- Trench off the pipe Tree side of the lateral, not on top of it.
- Deep panel Below the invert if the lot allows. Joints locked.
- Hand off If the pipe needs liner or replacement, we say so and we stop.
Sewer Line Root Barrier near you
We run this work across Greater Houston. Start with the city closest to the lot: