Got asked to provide a quote to builder I work with, a new house they recently sold the new owners found out the sewer line isn't draining properly. Bad enough as it is, worse that there is a brand new garage and deck over the lines. They scoped it and found there is a hump, but not sure of exact point. About 70' of run from house to alley, 10' of driveway, 20' garage, 30' open, 10' of a deck so fairly good chance it's not in the open part. They originally wanted a quote to replace entire line, but upon seeing the garage in the way, I don't see how without tearing down the garage, removing garage pad and driveway, possibly breaking up part of basement floor if there isn't enough slope in the line. To make it worse, it's a duplex so it's really 2 garages. It's already going to be a nightmare digging with a 2 ton machine trying to get through the 3-4' of frost we have here.
Unless i'm missing something, I cannot see any possible way to replace the sewer line under the garage without removing it, or at least cutting out a trench in the floor. The driveway is only about 10' long and then there's the alley. There is only 4' wide access past the garage to get into the yard so not much room to get any equipment in.
Part of me wants to say i'm not interested, but I want to continue doing all of their new digs. So far I told them if they can re-scope it and pinpoint the hump, and if it's lucky and it's in the open I can quote an exact price for fixing that hump, contingent that it is the only problem.
Unless i'm missing something, I cannot see any possible way to replace the sewer line under the garage without removing it, or at least cutting out a trench in the floor. The driveway is only about 10' long and then there's the alley. There is only 4' wide access past the garage to get into the yard so not much room to get any equipment in.
Part of me wants to say i'm not interested, but I want to continue doing all of their new digs. So far I told them if they can re-scope it and pinpoint the hump, and if it's lucky and it's in the open I can quote an exact price for fixing that hump, contingent that it is the only problem.