Camera inspection
Through a cleanout, a camera on a push cable travels the length of the lateral and records what it passes, from cracked or offset joints to sags and root masses, with the footage marked by distance.
Sewer Line Repair in Yonkers
The sewer lateral is the pipe carrying waste from your house to the city sewer. Backups that keep returning, toilets that gurgle and a basement floor drain filling while the washer runs can all point to it. We run a camera through the line and repair what the video shows.
Every sewer job in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle or White Plains begins with finding out what the line looks like inside, whether the trouble turns out to be roots or a full break.
Sewer lateral work
Root clearing
Roots creep in at the joints, thicken and form a net that snags paper and waste. We cut them back with a cable head or blast them out with a jetter, then look again with the camera to judge whether the joint should be repaired.
Repairing a section
When the damage sits in one spot, we excavate just that length and splice in new pipe, keeping the sound pipe on both sides of the break.
Replacing the lateral
A line with breaks along its length is replaced from the building to the sewer main with new pipe.
Sewer lateral rules in Yonkers
Yonkers code makes property owners solely responsible for maintaining, repairing and replacing their private sewer lateral. Where it runs to a main in the street, the private lateral is the entire line from the building sewer drain to the main.
A building or plumbing permit for a substantial improvement, one costing 50 percent or more of the property’s market value, means the owner has to have the lateral inspected or tested by a licensed plumber or professional engineer, using a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera. The owner can instead replace the entire lateral.
The code also says that anyone who works on a private sewer lateral has to bring it into compliance with the city’s standards.
Approval before the work
New or altered sewer and drainage work in Yonkers needs the city’s approval before it starts, on an application the owner signs, and the stamped plans are the permit. Minor repairs to an existing system are exempt but still have to meet the code.
House age and the sewer line
Yonkers homes have a median build year of 1958. The sewer line age checker opens with that year filled in, or you can enter your own home’s year, and it suggests which pipe materials a house of that era may have underground.
Frequently asked questions
Does a big renovation trigger a lateral inspection?
Yes, if the permit is for an improvement costing 50 percent or more of the property’s market value. Replacing the whole lateral is the other option the code allows.
Trouble at just one sink or tub? That calls for a drain clearing visit. Corroded supply lines inside the walls fall under repiping, and the homepage gathers the rest of our services.
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