Saving Money On Home Repairs - Sometimes You Can Save Money Hiring A Specialist

By: Bob Crane

We had just bought a fifteen-year old house that needed a lot of cosmetic work but nothing major. So we could live in the house and still fix it up we worked on one room at time allowing the rest of the house to be uninterrupted by construction projects.

After being in the house for one year we began to have problems with the drain pipe that led from the house to the street. Since we had a municipal sewer system there was no septic tank to worry about so the problem had to be in the pipe itself. There was till a homeowners warrantee intact so I called them to look into the problem. They came out with a drain clean out tool that went down into the pipe to clear any obstructions that it came across. The machine seemed to hit something and then smooth out so the plumber went out a few more feet still unobstructed. When he pulled the cable out of the pipe on the end of it was a clump of small roots. That told us that there must be a break in the pipe around fifteen feet from the house. I started to dig and around five feet down I found the broken joint. It turned out that the land running underneath the pipe was a mini sink hole and the earth was being pulled down in one section and not the other shearing the pipe joint as the weight of the soil pulled part of the pipe down. I replaced the joint and filled in the dirt that had sunk into the sink hole and filled everything in planted new grass and everything. After everything was added up the job didn’t really cost that much.

The drains worked fine for around eight months when the same thing started happening again. It started backing up for no apparent reason. I thought that the joint broke again so I dig that up first and it was fine. I called the plumbing company I do business with and asked them what I should do and they said snake out the pipe again. They had a machine to do that and they could do it cheap. Once they were finished snaking the drain it worked fine for around three weeks when it backed up again. I called the plumber again and they snaked the drain again. That went on for four plumber visits needless to say it was getting expensive and frustrating dealing with a problem that should be so simple to fix.

The next time it backed up I called Rooter-Rooter a company that specializes in clogged drains. They cautioned me right up front that they charge a little more than a plumber would because they have expensive equipment engineered to clean drains. They came over and had to use a winch to unload the machine from the truck. The plumber just carried his like it was a suitcase or something. It was a really big difference in equipment. The end of the Rooter-Rooter cable had an auger on it to chew through whatever was in the pipe and restore the pipe to its original inside diameter where the plumber had just a cable end that merely punched a small hole in the obstruction. That was over a year ago and I have not had problems with the drain since. That was one instance where it would have been better to call the specialists first and pay a little extra instead of paying for someone who doesn’t specialize in that type of work. I still use the same plumber because they are excellent plumbers. But if I need a drain cleaned I will definitely call the specialists in that field, Rooter-Rooter.

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