The drainage system in my parent’s house is messed up. Probably a broken line in the system somewhere, but it causes unruly backups and muddy floods in the basement. Today’s rain caused some serious flash problems. I don’t know if any of you have experianced these issues, but if you have, any recommendations on who to call to handle these types of situations?
Thanks in advance.
try the town/city. i guess though it would depend on where your parents live. in my little ass broken town we call the village workers lol.
Sounds like the drain tile is plugged, which the town doesn’t have dick to do with. I’ve heard good things about utech.
Get it fixed ASAP. Fixing a drainage system is a LOT cheaper than fixing a foundation.
What drainage are you talking about? Main sewer, sump, yard drain tile?
I had the line my sump pump was on colapse between my house and the sidewalk. In Amherst anyway, thTs the part the homeowner is responsible for. I hired some guy who worked for rooto router to dig it up and replace it for cash on the side. He replaced to about a foot past the sidewalk then the town came, dug up the bubbler, installed a new one and tapped it into my new line.
Generally I think everything between the house and the street is your problem. In Amherst they won’t even come out to check their end until a licensed plumber has checked your side.
Its the sump/yard drain line. We thought one of the drain tiles may have been plugged up causing the muddy water, but it looks to be a lot worse than just that. Weirdest thing is we found 5 golf balls in the bottom of their sump well when we cleaned it all out. Neither one of us use maxfli so we know its not ours…
Thankfully not the sewage system at all. That would be real shitty.
I’ll let them know about utech.
Cheektowaga won’t touch anything before the street. Grass, sidewalk, and that are all your responsibility, even if they tear it up to fix something.
You can try having the line snaked. If you’re lucky it’s just roots and you’ll need to have it snaked every 2-3 years. Or it may be like mine where the snake goes about 40 feet and hits solid dirt because the shitty clay pipe they used in the 70’s colapsed.
They had Roto rooter out today and solved the problems. They had one of the Rotocams, sent it down and saw just large deposits of mud. Cleaned that out. The mud came from a cracked drain pipe off the house, thats luckily easy to repair just below the ground without heavy digging.
Thanks for the tips.