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As a new home owner this is just the start. Wait until the broken sewer or hot water pipes.
yep.. one thing most people don't realize... the city does not cover the sewer line going to your home, so if you have an older home with trees on the property with the original sewer line in place that's clay and not PVC, chances are better than playing the lottery or a casino that it could clog and fail requiring expensive replacement.
Some communities do offer sewer line insurance.. mine does not.
yep.. one thing most people don't realize... the city does not cover the sewer line going to your home, so if you have an older home with trees on the property with the original sewer line in place that's clay and not PVC, chances are better than playing the lottery or a casino that it could clog and fail requiring expensive replacement.
Some communities do offer sewer line insurance.. mine does not.
Friend had this issue... he rented one of those $300 or $400 machines and we removed the vines though the pipes. It was nasty... but it beat paying $7000 to have it repaired. Been 8 years and he has not had to do that again... I think he puts something down his drain once a month so the roots will not grow.
I would not help again... did not know what I was getting myself into.
Friend had this issue... he rented one of those $300 or $400 machines and we removed the vines though the pipes. It was nasty... but it beat paying $7000 to have it repaired. Been 8 years and he has not had to do that again... I think he puts something down his drain once a month so the roots will not grow.
I would not help again... did not know what I was getting myself into.
You're talking about two separate issues..
Yes, your main sewer line can get clogged with spagetti sized roots but that doesn't mean it has to be replaced. You just need a sewer and drain cleaning company or plumber to come clear out that line.
If you, or the sewer cleaner/plumber you hired is pulling up mud along with those roots, then that means your line is collapsing and is going to need to be replaced. Even so, you may still get a few more years out of it before it collapses enough where the cutters can't get through it to clear it.
I just wanted to clear that up so anybody who reads this doesn't immediately hire someone to replace their main line if it starts to back up on them.
btw.. we charge less than $300. to clear out the main sewer line.
Always have an inspector go over the property. An inspector would have checked to see if the Air Conditioner and Heater worked. They may have worked fine, and the next time either was turned on, it could blow up on the new owner. Remember, it worked for a bit when the first work was done on it then quit. That would have been when the system fried as it would not have worked at all if it had been fried. If it works, the inspector would not know if both units were compatible or not. There is no way an inspector could know all the technical aspects of compatibility. The inspector is looking for obvious defects, and if appliances such as heat work.
Always get a survey.
A lot of properties are not going to not have problems. The worst I ever saw was a small mountain village in Colorado. A man bought a lot, and had half built his new home before needed financing to complete it. He had to get a survey, to get the loan. Found he did not own the lot he thought he had bought, but owned the property next door that had another house already built on it. That man found he owned, a lot across the street. By the time they got done, no one in that subdivision owned the land they thought they owned, and were told by the attorneys that they had to go to court to get the properties settled and spend thousands of dollars for a quiet title suite.
They came and asked me if there was a way to cut the costs. I told them the answer was to everyone of them work with the neighbors to mark the corners of the property they thought they owned. Then they brought in a surveyor that surveyed the entire area, and made up new legal descriptions to fit the property they claimed to own. They got an attorney to let them all quit claim the property they had gotten title to (other peoples property), and he then wrote up new titles for the property they thought they owned. Total cost for each $200 per home to solve the problem. The county accepted the new descriptions. The title companies and banks then redid their title insurance policies and loan property descriptions, and everyone was happy. The only one that did not want to do along with it, was the woman that owned land next to the subdivision. When they pointed out that she could now move her fence 50 feet and actually owned 50 foot by several hundred feet of land, she was happy to go along with the change.
I repeat, always get a survey. We bought a mountain home for ourselves on a very large lot, and thought the land ran back to a certain point from what the seller told us, as did the neighbor. We had a pre closing survey done. We found by the survey it went almost to a neighbors home. He was kind of sick about it, but measuring from the back side he found my survey was right, and he had just assumed his property ran half way between the houses. It did not effect our use of the property any, as the area between the houses was without fence, and just land with pine trees and a huge boulder about the size of a house.
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