Sewer Line Repair Frisco

What is a Sewer Line or Sewer System in My Home?

The plumbing in your home is composed of two different main systems. One is designed to safely and effectively distribute drinkable water.

We often refer to this as the domestic water supply. The other is the sewer system, a combination of all of the various waste and air vent pipes in the home.
All of the various pipes have different names, definitions, functions, and codes. When properly designed, installed, and free of defects, the entire system works in harmony. As a whole, these pipes of the sewer system carry all of the waste and wastewater from your toilets, tubs, showers, and sinks away from the house and into the city sewer or septic system.

How Much Does a Major Sewer Line Repair Cost?

Unless your home is the rare pier & beam variety, the sewer system and sewer lines are always going to be buried under the concrete slab. Accessibility and excavation work are always the biggest factors that go into average costs when building a quote.

Limited access due to pool decks, as well as unknown variables such as digging conditions, concrete beam removal, or a second or even a third repair, may need to be taken into consideration as factors that could affect the total price.
Sometimes these large repair jobs are partially paid for by your homeowners insurance, but it is very important that you check with your provider to make sure that you have the extra slab and foundation endorsement. This is a separate policy that covers slab leaks, sewer line breaks, and foundation work.

You must make sure that your policy has this relatively inexpensive endorsement BEFORE the repair need arises because there is typically a waiting period before it kicks in. This extra endorsement to your policy is very affordable and far too often not offered or even mentioned when purchasing your traditional homeowners policy. (For more information read our blog!)

Although Earl’s Plumbing gets paid by the property owner and not the insurance company, we work closely with both parties to ensure that the itemized details, pictures, and descriptions are verbalized properly. Even with the coverage endorsement mentioned above, not every aspect of the job is covered. Knowing this, we do our part to make sure that the reimbursement processes go as smoothly as possible while making sure that we maximize your covered work.