glennster
Well-known Member
so mother in law has a house in town. sanitary sewer is in the middle of the street. she has a re-curring problem with roots plugging up the sewer causing back up in the basement. did it again yesterday, and had a guy come out and rod the roots out again. this happens about 4 times a year, i have put root killer down monthly, but it doesnt help. lately i have a 55 gallon placed in the basement that trickles root kill (copper sulphate) down. takes about 2 days to empty the drum. the roots are getting in from the parkway and under the street. (lots of old trees in the parkway) city will not do anything unless the line is broken. had it camera'd an line is good, just getting root infiltration at the pipe joints. . she would have to pay to dig up the street and replace the line. its 6 inch plastic from the house to the parkway. had thought about mixing calcuim chloride and trickling that down the drain. any ideas???? to replace the line is about 10k, way out of her budget.