Cast Iron Sewer Repair
Repairing and Replacing a broken Sewer Line
This is one of several buildings we have come across in Chicago where the builders hooked up the new building to the old sewer line. This is not good or “legal” and it should have been discovered by the plumbing inspector. This type of shoddy workmanship is not usually discovered until long after the builder is gone and the homeowner association or homeowner figures out what happened. We were called in to re-line a sewer since a large front stoop and sidewalk would have needed to be demolished and replaced if using the old fashioned excavation and pipe replacement method making the project financially prohibitive for the building owners .
In the case pictured we had to put in a new cast iron sewer line and disconnect and cap off the old PVC line which lead outside to the old collasped sewer line. There was a maze of old pipe outside some of which we re-lined and some we had to replace completely because part of sewer line had collapsed. It cannot be re-lined if it is collasped. This job was 1/4 the price of excavation & replacement due the concrete work that would have needed to be re-done. Re-lining saves time, energy and money.
