Littleton

Have you noticed the smell of sewage lingering in your toilet, bathtub, or sink? If so, you may have a cracked sewer pipe. You need to call a technician experienced in sewer line repair to prevent extensive damage to your home or health issues for your family.

In some cases, a professional can complete a repair. However, a sewer line replacement is the only viable choice for some homeowners. Fortunately, living in Littleton, CO, means you are in the service area for one of the premier companies for sewer installation, replacement, and repair services.

What Causes Sewer Pipe Damage?

A sewer line serves one main function within your home — removing solid and liquid waste. It can be challenging to keep up with maintenance, making your sewer lines susceptible to damage. So what causes your sewer line to malfunction or break?

Issues with the Public Sewer Line

If your home is connected to a public sewer line, you are at the mercy of those pipes. At times, they may become clogged or experience a backup, causing waste to reenter the system in your home.

Poorly Constructed Sewer System

If the original sewer system has an inadequate design, waste may have trouble moving through the pipes. The system could have been poorly installed, or the system has become overloaded by more frequent use.

Weather Patterns

The pipes under your Littleton, CO, home expand and contract with the changing weather. It’s a natural cycle, but eventually, it will cause the pipes to weaken, resulting in a split, crack, or collapsed line.

Roots of Trees

You’d probably never guess, but a constant war is being waged underneath your home. The sewage lines and tree roots need space, but there’s not always room for both. Tree roots may begin expanding and interrupt the pipes that join together to form your sewage system. This results in breaks and leaks in the lines.

Improper Maintenance

Have you ever thought about appropriate sewer line maintenance? It’s okay if you haven’t. Most people don’t.

However, grease, skin cells, hair products, and other sludge enter your plumbing system every day. What’s worse, cooking oil and coffee grounds make their way into the system, causing extensive problems. Skipping maintenance causes irreparable damage over time.

Age

Everyone feels the wear and tear on their bodies as they age. Your plumbing system is no different. Eventually, they become weak and may break.

Drains in older homes are made from outdated materials. As they age, small amounts of toxic materials, like lead, can seep into your water.

Your family can’t go about their daily routine without a properly functioning sewer. A call to your local plumber will help determine the problem and work to get it resolved.

Many factors contribute to the deterioration of your pipes, including tree roots and foreign objects that have fallen down the drain.

When you call Sewer Lines Only, we’ll bring the industry-specific tools required to diagnose the problem. Once the issue has been identified, we’ll provide you with two options — trenched and trenchless sewer line replacement.

Traditional Trenched Sewer Line Repairs

The most common type of sewer line repair is trenching. It requires that your lawn be dug up to complete the repairs. In some cases, only a small portion of your yard will be dug up when a piece of the pipe needs to be repaired. In contrast, other times, the entire sewer line will be exposed.

Equipment like an excavator or backhoe will be brought onto the property for trenching. Hand digging is an alternative method when the location is more difficult to reach with heavy equipment.

The safety of your family and our crew is our top priority. This is why our technicians are thoroughly trained in safety standards. A trench shoring process is done by placing two pieces of metal together to line either side of the trench. This keeps the trench from caving in.

Sewer Lines Only technicians are trained to operate heavy machinery while avoiding underground utility lines and neighboring homes. We even take special care to protect your landscaping.

Following special procedures, our experts place plywood on the ground to protect your grass. After digging begins, the soil is placed into a dump truck and removed. Some soil will be preserved to protect the sewer line replacement from shifting and creating low spots.

Modern Trenchless Sewer Line Repair

Some Littletown, CO, homes can have a less invasive repair called a trenchless sewer line repair. With this method, new pipe is pulled through the old line rather than digging up the pipe to complete repairs. Your sewer line replacement is completed with minimal disruption, less equipment, and limited damage to your property.

To begin the trenchless sewer line replacement, our technicians must dig two pits — one for entry and another for an exit. These holes are needed to access the location where repairs can be completed. These two holes are just wide enough to allow the new pipe to be pulled through them.

After the holes are prepared, the next step in your trenchless sewer line replacement is pipe bursting. A new pipe is covered with a cone-shaped “bursting head” and forced through the old sewer line, splitting it into pieces. This makes removing the old pipe a quick and straightforward process.

Factors that influence how long your trenchless sewer line installation will take include the length and depth of the pipe and the extent of repairs. On average, this project will take only one day to complete.