Digging up a sewer line in Santee usually means going through a driveway, a lawn or a backyard full of trees. Pipe lining is often the alternative. Instead of a trench from the house to the street, the work is done from the inside, through a cleanout where there is one, and the yard mostly stays the way it is.
It's called CIPP, short for cured in place pipe. A resin soaked liner goes into the existing line, presses against the old pipe wall, and hardens into a smooth new pipe inside it. In neighborhoods like Carlton Hills and Carlton Oaks, if the camera shows clay pipe with roots getting in at the joints, a liner covers those joints with one continuous wall.
Lining only works if the old pipe still holds its shape, and that's something the footage can show. Some lines qualify and some don't. You see the footage, hear the options in plain English, and decide, with a licensed contractor doing the work when you say go.
