Clearing a blockage
Roots, grease or debris can block a sewer line that is otherwise sound. Clearing it gets the line flowing again, and the plumber you hire can tell you whether the pipe itself is damaged.
Sewer Line Repair in Tampa
A sewer line leaving the house may be blocked, cracked or broken when drains gurgle, sewage smells show up, the ground over the line is soggy or more than one fixture backs up. The plumber you hire can repair or replace it.
This page covers the repair choices, which part of the line is yours in Tampa, the City permit for sewer replacement and a tool that matches your home’s age to the pipe of its era.
Ways to fix a failing sewer line
Repairing one section
A single length of pipe that has cracked, sagged or come apart can be repaired on its own, and the plumber you hire can do that one length.
Replacing the whole line
When breaks turn up in several spots, or the pipe is worn from end to end, putting in a new line may make more sense, and the plumber you hire goes through that decision with you.
Your part of the sewer line
Tampa’s Wastewater Collection Division says its crews are not permitted to work on private property. That leaves any problem between the right-of-way and the house for the homeowner or a plumber to resolve.
The drain cleaning page explains the cleanout check the City describes for telling its sewer apart from your line.
The permit for sewer replacement
Replacing the sewer line outside the house is one of the jobs Tampa covers with a plumbing trade permit, which skips plan review.
The Tampa sewer system
Beyond your part of the line, the City’s Collections Division maintains 1,800 miles of gravity and force main sewer lines. On an average day the Howard F. Curren Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant takes in more than 50 million gallons of raw sewage.
Your home’s age and its sewer pipe
Sewer pipe has changed with the decades. Give the sewer line age checker the year your Tampa house was finished and it suggests what the line is made of and how much of that material’s working life is used up.
If only one sink is sluggish, drain cleaning fits better than sewer work, and new supply pipe or a new water service belongs to repiping. The home page gathers the rest.
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