I am catastrophically embarrassed to be posting this but it speaks for itself.
I am catastrophically embarrassed to be posting this but it speaks for itself.
It seems absurd but one does have to consider the skills and labor required to rip up several dozen feet of sewage lines running from a house out to the street and replacing them all. I mean, would you be able to do it?
Disregarding the fact that this should be a public utility paid by the government, not individuals, but still. It's a much more highly skilled task than the average joe can do.
The process involves digging a hole in the ground (hard labor) followed by injecting plastic resin into the existing pipes to form a new pipe (extremely expensive chemicals and machinery) so it's all justified, it just sucks.
Like, it's silly, because if the dirt wasn't there, and the city sewer line wasn't under a ton of asphalt, and no permits were required to access it, then this would be a job I could do myself for $100. Screw in a new pipe; done. I have always thought it's completely wild that we bury infrastructure, knowing full well that its unbelievably expensive and labor intensive to dig it back up when we inevitably have to replace it. It seems like caveman behavior.
But how else can you have an incredibly clean and fake lawn made of imported grass you have to maintain regularly lest you be attacked by an HOA?