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Author Message   ronzio Citizen Username: Ronzio Post Number: 84 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 12:22 am:        We had a bit of a flood in our basement on Sunday. second time it's happened in the past two months. The first was the day of that tremendous rainfall. Anyway, I had to get a plumber out here right away to clear the sewer line. I ended up getting Mr. Rooter out of the phonebook. The plumber that they sent out seemed very helpful. However, he revealed some startling news, telling me that that our sewer line out to the street is collapsing. He put a camera down the line and saw that it was crumbling and that we'd need to replace it. My wife and I are planning to redo our basement in Feb/March, so we'll be having the cement in the basement broken up so they can get to the pipes to move some stuff around. Anyway, at that time, we'll have the pipe replaced or at least repaired. Mr. Rooter offers a service that basically inflates a PVC pipe in the current pipe, thus replacing the crumbling old pip with a fancy new PVC one, and allowing you to bypass the annoying digging up of the lawn, sidewalks, etc., that would be required with the standard pipe replacement process. Any thoughts on this? Should I have any reason to NOT believe that my pipe line is crumbling? Is this something that insurance would cover? Thanks.   David Cataneo Citizen Username: Dave_cataneo Post Number: 40 Registered: 4-2004 Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 9:26 am:        Do you have a copy of the video?   ronzio Citizen Username: Ronzio Post Number: 85 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 11:35 am:        No. I would have to pay to have them come out and video tape it. He just put the camera down the line to take a look while clearing it out.   Jgberkeley Citizen Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 4160 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 11:54 am:        Depending on the cost, you can get a 2nd opinion. The yellow pages list many who run video down drain pipes. That said, It is reasonable that this could in fact be your problem and the fix offered is pretty standard. So if the cost of the fix is reasonable, then just do it without a 2nd view. Then you can count on the warrenty that your problem will not return. In my opinion