Former Linden Hills resident Santanu Chatterjea said of his nightmarish experiences with his sewer. A few years ago, Chatterjea and his wife Prachee Mukherjee, who have since moved from the neighborhood, did not expect the floor drain in their utility room to be overcrowded.
“Apparently older houses like ours had the outside sewer connected to the basement drain,” said Santanu Chatterjea. In the back yard, add beautiful majestic trees, the gnarled roots of which broke into the old sewers and sewage backflow occurred.
The couple went through several services to find out what the problem was. “One of them even pushed a camera as far in the line as he could and showed me a blurry image of a drop of water that confirmed his suspicion – the drain tiles collapsing due to root penetration,” Chatterjea said.
They had two options: a trenchless repair of the sewer pipe, which would not disturb the courtyard but would be very expensive, or an elaborate archaeological excavation, in which the front yard would have to be excavated and the pavement torn out to the main sewerage of the city under the street. The costs? $ 25,000.
“Needless to say, I was a little upset,” he said.
Eventually, Chatterjea was hooked up with Ron the Sewer Council, whose worker came and shoved a cutter with blades from inside the main water pipe of her house into the sewer for $ 300.
“He said the roots of the pine would probably return in a few years and cause the same problem, but that was normal in this part of town. He would have to come back. “
The main problem is that the older houses use clay tiles as opposed to PVC pipes, said Peter Kroening, co-owner of Ron the Sewer Council. The clay tiles, combined with all of the old trees with heavy root systems, can be a disaster for your pipes.
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