Name: Jerry Young
Rating: 5
Review: Solving early 20th century sewer line mysteries. When Mission Plumbing came out to investigate the initial camera survey showed some interesting turns. When initial sewer connections were made in old Houston Heights in the 1920’s, occasionally two or sometimes more houses shared a common sewer main connection. Using the camera and an above ground location device Zach and Gabe tracked the old clay pipe to the connection to newer PVC pipe. Because of some disconnected sections, it was trace to blockage, expose another section of old pipe past the blockage and carry on. (Of course the line ran under the paved driveway.) In the course of excavation, an additional line was found connecting to the sewer line apparently from an adjacent house. It was determined that this line was abandoned and could be detached and forgotten. . In addition, previous owners had made some ‘inventive’ connections at the tie-ins under the house as the house was modified several times over the years. Zach and Gabe ‘untangled’ some of the old connections and installed some new PVC piping. During this work, Zach and Gabe were able to consult with additional plumbers at Mission that had experience with similar situations in the past. In the end, new PVC pipe was installed and after passing city inspection the excavation was filled in and concrete (with rebar connections to driveway concrete) was placed over the fill to repair the driveway.

Thanks for the work done by Zach Thomas and Gabe Banegas, and a shout out to the various contracted digging crews,
Date: a month ago