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Is this is as bad as I'm fearing?
In early spring we started noticing that a 3 foot wide strip of our front lawn, from the porch walkway all the way down to the sidewalk at the street (perpendicular to the steeet), was much greener, and was growing much faster than the rest of the lawn. Like the lawn was growing a mohawk. If you draw a line from the toilet in the rear bathroom through the toilet in the front bathroom and out to the street, it would go right through the grass mohawk. Is my main drain line ****ed? How would you proceed without digging up the front yard?
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About a month ago our kitchen sink backed up pretty bad, but I was able to temporarily clear it with a hand cranked snake. 2 weeks later we had gray water flooding both bathroom showers and toilets. A plumber came out and and cleared it through the roof access pipe with his electric equipment.
Ugh, probably a partial collapsed pipe.
The only real good and easiest fix is to dig down in that area and inspect the pipe.
You can get a plumber to inspect the line with a camera unit, but chances are they will still have to excavate the area to repair.
I've heard of re-lining pipe without excavating but I imagine its pricey.
I had a similar area and drain problem a few years ago but also had a tree near by.
Dug down and found roots had basically plugged up that section of sewer pipe.
Took that section out and replaced it with new pipe i split and connected with a combo of glue and hose clamps.
It just has to be able to carry waste and not leak since its gravity fed and not under great pressure.
Outside of my labor it was probably 20 dollars in pipe, a small amount of glue and two hose clamps.
The tricky part is to be sure to dig around the pipe a little to find the break, its usually on the underside of the pipe.
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Now looking at that pic makes me wonder if its a broken/ leaky sprinkler line.
In that case it might be easier to take a probe and see if you can find a saturated section to start digging.
But the plumbing problem makes me lean towards septic line.
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Last edited by Eeyorefora; 06-25-2021 at 08:08 PM.