No job is more apt to turn a customer catatonic than a sewer line repair. Cost typically runs into thousands of dollars, the nasty project stretches for days, and sorry about your posies, ma'am, but we can't help it the line runs right underneath. And don't you just love those jobs where you have to break through a concrete sidewalk!
The end of those days is in sight. Modern pipe lining technology is as welcome an alternative to open cut toil as antibiotics are to amputation. Pipe lining techniques vary but basically involve plastic resin, inserted within a fiberglass laminate bladder, pushed inside the damaged pipe, then expanded and solidified to form a new interior wall.