Sewer Line Repair & Replacement in Houston, TX
Honestly, most sewer line repair & replacement questions can be answered over the phone. Save yourself the dispatch fee — call first, ask second. Our pricing's flat-rate, our techs are state-licensed, and our trucks have parts on them. Most jobs done the same visit.
How Houston jobs differ
From downtown Houston to the outer subdivisions, we cover the metro on standard pricing. No travel surcharge inside the service radius.
What's typical for this job
Sewer lateral problems hit older homes hardest. Anything pre-1970 in most U.S. cities still has either clay-tile or Orangeburg laterals from the original build. Both fail. Tile cracks at the joints; Orangeburg collapses under load.
Diagnosis order: cable first, then camera. Cable clears most active blockages. The camera shows you what's actually happening down there — joint offsets, root invasion, bellies, broken sections.
Repair options depend on the lateral. Spot repair on a single broken section: $3,200–$6,500. Trenchless pipe burst on the full lateral (replaces clay or cast iron with new HDPE): $6,500–$14,000. Open-trench replacement: rare anymore, only when trenchless isn't feasible.
Permit is almost always required. Municipal sewer authorities want to inspect lateral work before backfill. We pull the permit and coordinate the inspection.
Ballpark numbers
For sewer line repair & replacement jobs in the Houston area:
- Sewer main unclog (cable): $220 – $495
- Hydro-jet + camera: $440 – $875
- Spot dig repair (5–8 ft section): $2,945 – $5,980
- Trenchless pipe burst (full lateral): $5,980 – $12,880
- Main water service line replacement: $2,575 – $6,900
Sample job
Recent Houston job: basement floor drain backing up after laundry in a 1960s home. We spot-repaired the bellied section after diagnosing a belly in the lateral was holding water. Cost ran $202 — pretty middle-of-the-road for that fix.