<p>Sewer and water line infrastructure guides specific to Duluth and the Twin Ports.</p>
Sewer lines fail everywhere. They fail faster here, and for reasons that are specific enough to be worth understanding if you own an older home in Duluth or Superior. None of this is to say your line is doomed. It is to say that the odds here are different from the national averages you will […]
If your sewer line is shared with the house next door, the person who can stop your repair is not the city. It is your neighbor. That catches most homeowners off guard, and it is the single most useful thing to understand before you start making phone calls. A shared lateral belongs to the homes […]
People ask about price first and this second, but the second question is usually the one keeping them up. You have had sewage in your basement already. Now you are being asked to let a crew walk through the house for a day or two, and you want to know what state it will be […]
Most sewer backups start at your house and work outward. Occasionally it goes the other way, and that is the one nobody plans for. What happens when the city main plugs The municipal main carries everything from every house on the street. If it blocks, that flow has to go somewhere, and it goes to […]
Most people meet an excavation contractor because something has gone wrong, or because something has to go in before anything else can. Either way the question is the same: what does this involve, and do I need one? What excavation covers It is a broader trade than the digging part suggests. On any given week […]
Quick answer: You can legally dig on your own property, but you cannot touch the public right of way, which is typically everything past the sidewalk toward the street. That portion requires a licensed and bonded contractor. There is also a catch most homeowners never hear about: in Duluth, if you repair one bad section […]
Quick answer: An old sewer line is not the same thing as a failing sewer line. If you have been told yours needs to be replaced and you want to be sure before you spend the money, a second camera inspection costs you nothing. We will run the line, show you the footage while it […]
Quick answer: If your Duluth home still has a lead water service line, the city has a program that pays for replacing it. We are doing this work now, including a recent project where we replaced four water lines for four homes on one hillside. The first step is finding out what your service line […]
A house trap is a U-shaped section of pipe on your main sewer line, usually buried in the basement floor near where the line leaves the house. It was standard in homes built through the mid-twentieth century, and if your Duluth or Superior home predates about 1970 there is a good chance yours is still […]
Most residential sewer lines are buried 2 to 8 feet deep. In Duluth and Superior, laterals typically run 5 to 8 feet down so they sit below frost. Duluth requires insulation on any sanitary sewer service with 6 feet of cover or less, and Wisconsin sets a hard 42 inch minimum for building sewers in […]