Your residential sewer line plays a crucial role in allowing you to have a hygienic and healthy home. When your sewer line is blocked, broken, or has certain issues, this will affect the entire main line of your home plumbing system.<\/span><\/p>\n Here are the five common sewer line problems you may encounter and signs that you have these issues: <\/strong><\/p>\n Sewer lines can become blocked if you keep throwing grease and oil down the sink and flushing objects that shouldn\u2019t be flushed, such as diapers and tampons. The blockage will then restrict water flow in your sewer line. <\/span><\/p>\n Common signs that indicate you have a blocked sewer line are:<\/strong><\/p>\n Old residential sewer lines<\/a> especially those produced before the \u201890s were made of clay or poor-quality plastic pipes. These fixtures become weaker and brittle as the years go by.<\/span><\/p>\n If these pipes are not replaced, they will be broken by the shifting of frozen ground or soil surrounding the sewer lines. They can be broken by tree roots as well. <\/span><\/p>\nBlockage<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Broken, collapsed and skewed pipes<\/b><\/h3>\n