Yes your pipe will collapse

Yes it will be expensive.

Either wait until everything backs up in your shower and sinks or go ahead and have it replaced now. Up to you.

How deep is the line Dave?

Keith

Coonman, whatever you choose to do, do the opposite!

Prepositions and conjunctions might help.

Just rent a mini excavator for a day but do it on a
Saturday so you have Sunday too, around here thats about $500, and buy the pipe and install it yourself. Im no plumber but when it can save me thousands im a quick learner. Just call the 1 800 dig it # first to locate any other buried lines. Good luck

Yes replace it to the street
4 companies tried repair.

You pay for a plane ticket, rent the mini and pay for the materials and pay me 600 and I will come and help ya.
Good belled schedule 40 is 5~8 bucks a foot
Misc 2-600
Plane ticket 6-700
Mimi 500
Me 600 and dinner at the finest grease spoon in town.

What part of Iowa/ town ya in?
Got some land in Iowa.

Epworth,Iowa.

You are wasting your money trying to open up that line. Dig it up and put a new one in.

Best deal you got going right here

Epworth,Iowa.

Spent many a days as a kid fishing in the city park in lows Falls

Or start digging a hole and build an outhouse

Hmm! Spend time digging ditch and replace pipe and save 8 or 9 thousand dollars, or pay someone 10 thousand dollars to fix problem and spend time trapping $4 coon to pay the 10 thousand?

The one in the bold is the opposite coonman.

The collapse is due to gravity. The cause of the cracks is the tree roots. Another tool you might have someone use is a milling machine. Picote makes the best one. They have carbide chain cutters that can open only to 4” and scour the pipe clean. If the pipe is compromised the milling machine could do more damage. Sounds like you need a new building sewer.

Build an outdoor toilet. You can use corncobs, newspaper, or magazines instead of high priced toilet paper. Save money.

Dave, do I understand right that your sewer lines runs under the driveway?

How far into your lot did they replace during the street project.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it isn't anywhere near the street project or he'd been blaming them already.

I asked as because I'm curious to ascertain how far he has left to replace.

I'm sure they replaced to the property line.

How about 2 shovels 2 picks and 4 Mexican's?

18 days.

In our 2nd home which is small, we had issues with plugging just like you have. We messed with the sewer snakes off and on for 1.5 years. This place is hooked up to one of those rural sanitary districts with 84 hook ups. Our pipe was about 50-55 foot to the main or connection. We decided to dig it up, 2002 and we found the trree roots in 2-3 places. This place is 200 miles from our main residents and at that time it was amzingly low cost to dig a new line and hook it up. Your quote sounds high but if you are going to have issues every few weeks or months, the remedy to end the issue will only cost more in the futre. You could probably get a home equity loan to put it in and pay for it over time. Not fun but then cleaning out sewer lines is not either.

Bryce