#1 · BURIEN
Sewer repair fixes breaks, root intrusion, and sags in the side sewer running from your house to the city main. On the wet side you own that entire line — including under the street — and our root-heavy, wet soils are hard on old clay and concrete pipe.
Wet-side market range — get itemized quotes before work starts
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Also searched as: blocked sewer pipe, broken sewer pipe, broken sewers, clogged mainline sewer, clogged sewer, clogged sewer main.
Always, for anything beyond a simple clog. $150–$500, often credited toward repairs, and it turns a five-figure guess into an evidence-based decision. Get the footage itself, not a verbal summary.
In most wet-side jurisdictions, including Seattle: you. Homeowners own the full side sewer to the main. It surprises everyone — check our sewer cost guide before you're quoted.
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