The plumbers are here. I am in near disbelief.
The one guy said they can run a "feeler" from the little kitchen cleanout, find the line, put in a cleanout TODAY, clean it out, and I should be good.
I am not a great enough optimist to believe that all will happen until I actually see it, but I also have hope that the problem is on its way to a resolution.
I will also note that a City M and O (Maintenance and Operations?? I don't know) guy was looking in my neighbor's cleanout, which makes me wonder if multiple people on my street are having drainage issues - suggesting it is a larger, neighborhood wide issue that (I would hope) the city will fix soon.
Even if it IS a city problem, I still need the cleanout for the future.
The surprising thing? I was anticipating something like $5000 on the cleanout; turns out it should be less than $500. It seems a much more minor operation than I thought it would be.
(Unless I need a whole new drain line. I suppose that could be what happened to my neighbors, where their whole entire yard was torn up and even part of the street. I hope that's not it.)
And Charles, I wonder if we are somehow fatalistically linked; did you not have a failure of a water heater or gas line to same shortly before or shortly after mine?
Maybe I should have your cell # to warn you just in case my house ever blows up or something.
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Apparently everyone on this block except me had issues four or five years ago; the city figured out that it was their fault and replaced a very large line that runs under my very large fence. (They rebuilt the fence, but a couple of trees on the far side were sacrificed.)
I have two cleanouts, one near the house, one near the junction with the city line. Just in case.
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