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Let's play the "how much will this cost" game
I think if we do this from time to time, it will be a fun and educational game for us nesties. So we'll describe what is wrong with our house (or car, or pet, or whatever) and we'll all guess how much that will cost to repair.
So I'll start...this started minor and only from time to time...but has progressed to pretty no matter what we do in the house with plumbing (laundry, showers, using toilets) causes the downstairs toilet to gurgle, overflow, and/or seep out the bottom...thus causing a minor flood in our basement every day.
We're getting a plumber to come out, would love to hear your guesses (either random guesses or from experience guesses)
Re: Let's play the "how much will this cost" game
My completely random guess: something is clogging the pipes, probably right below that toilet.
My guestimate of how much it's going to cost to fix: $700.
My guess: you have roots clogging your septic pipe. The fix: $4000
This just happened to my next door neighbor on friday and that is what they were quoted to fix it
Hopefully your problem will be something less awful though.
Total amateur stuff coming out of my mouth right now...but is there either septic or sewer...I think we're on sewer and generally cheaper then septic systems
yeah it was sewer, not septic. my bad. we have public utilities where I live.
We had this problem a few weeks ago on our sewer line - our quote was 6800 to dig up and replace our pipes in the front yard. That didn't include replacing/redoing the front yard. DH figured out a way to blow it out so we didn't need them to replace. but we will have to be really careful.
My guesses are either a clog (about $700 to fix) OR the pipe that connects your house to the city/county line is broken and clogged with tree roots. This happened to us and will cost about $5k - $8k to fix.
ETA: It cost us $5k and that did NOT include replanting the grass, evening the dirt, etc.
If you're connected to public sewer then you won't have a septic. Even so, if there's a problem with the drain line and it's located on your property, I'm not sure whether you're responsible for repairs and maintenance or whether the city (jurisdiction) is responsible.
I'd be curious about this. Our water comes into our house in the front from the water main.
We already had an issue with our water line breaking between the main and the meter. Luckily the city took care of the digging up of the road and all that good stuff, as they are responsible for the lines up to the meter.
However, the city owns a tree in our front yard (between the sidewalk and the road) that is next to our water line on our side of the meter. So if the tree starts to invade our water line, are they responsible?