Camera inspection
A compact camera crawls the length of the lateral while it records. Offsets, cracks, roots and collapsed sections appear on screen, and you see the footage before anything is dug.
Sewer Line Repair in El Cajon
Waste leaves the house through the sewer lateral. If that pipe cracks, collects roots or sags, the water has nowhere to go and returns indoors. Inspection, root cutting, spot repairs and full replacement are all part of our sewer service.
Below you will find the choices for the lateral, then what El Cajon’s code expects of owners. The sewer service is open to the five other cities on the home page as well.
Sewer line options
Cutting roots
Roots that entered at a joint can be trimmed from the inside with a cutter, and the line runs freely again. The joint remains open until it is repaired.
One-section repair
If the video shows trouble in a single spot, only that stretch of pipe is excavated and replaced.
Full replacement
A lateral with several breaks, offsets or collapsed stretches is replaced as a whole instead of being patched one spot at a time.
Roots, cracks and open joints in the lateral
El Cajon’s code says each owner shall maintain the building sewer lateral free of displaced joints, open joints, root intrusion, cracks, leaks, grease and similar defects. Looking after the lateral falls to the owner.
After a sewer overflow
A video inspection of the building sewer becomes the owner’s duty when the director of public works has evidence of a recent overflow or malfunction, or when testing shows the line failed or is likely to.
When the work needs a permit
The City’s guide exempts repairs of drainage-pipe leaks and clearing stoppages only if no piping is replaced or newly installed. Sewer pipe replacement therefore needs a permit, while clearing a stoppage does not.
House age and the lateral
Enter the year your house went up, and the sewer line age checker lists the pipe materials of that period. For El Cajon, half the homes were built in or before 1974.
The home page covers every other service. A clog that keeps returning is drain cleaning, and a new water line is repiping.
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