55 ft cast iron sewer lined under a deck and decades of landscaping in La Jolla

The situation

The owner had been putting off the repair for a long time. Her home dated from the 1960s, the backups were confined to the downstairs bathroom guests used, and the cast iron lateral ran out under the front deck and through landscaping she had been planting for decades. She did not know exactly where the line ran, only that she did not want it dug up.

The fix

TSR's camera survey located the pipe and found severe root buildup as the cause of the backups. The run to the street was only about 55 feet. The crew lined it in a fraction of the time an excavation would have taken, and she stayed in the house while they worked. The bathroom has not backed up since.