Sewer Line Repair & Replacement in Scarborough, ON

A clog in sound pipe backs up once and stays clear after cleaning. A line that backs up every spring, stops the cable at the same distance each time, or sends it back muddy has a structural problem — roots, a crack, a belly, or a collapse. A sewer camera inspection after the clearing settles it: round, clean pipe is a drain cleaning job; damage is sewer pipe repair, and we show you the footage before pricing it.

Often, yes. Roots enter through a joint that's already open, so if the camera shows one or two bad joints on an otherwise sound clay line, a spot repair or sectional liner there stops them for good. If roots are in every joint of a forty-foot run under a Guildwood maple, cutting buys a year or two — CIPP lining, which seals every joint at once, is the permanent fix and costs less over five years than yearly cutting.

Usually. Pipe bursting works in Scarborough's clay soil and needs the old line to be mostly continuous to pull through; the shallow shale near the Bluffs can stop it, so we probe first. CIPP lining needs a pipe that's still roughly round — it can't fix a sag or a crushed section. Where either works, you keep the driveway and lawn and the job is typically a day. Where neither does, open trench is the honest answer.

Every drain backing up at once, a cable that stops hard at one point, and outside a soft or sunken strip over the line, a patch of greener grass, or a sinkhole forming at the driveway edge where soil is washing into the pipe. Orangeburg ovals before it fails; clay shears at a joint. It won't wait — each backup is a basement cleanup and the hole is growing. We handle backups the same day and schedule replacement within days.

It depends where the break is. The City maintains the main and the part of the connection in the road allowance; you own everything from the property line to the house, including under the front lawn and driveway. Most breaks are on the private side, because that's where the old clay and Orangeburg is. The camera records the distance from the cleanout, so there's no argument — if it's the City's, we give you the footage to send to 311; if it's yours, we price it.

Not the sewer line itself — the City's Basement Flooding Protection Subsidy Program covers a large share of a backwater valve, a sump pump and alarm, and weeping tile severance and capping, not pipe replacement. But if you're opening a trench for a new sewer line anyway, that's the cheapest time to add a backwater valve on it, and that part is subsidy-eligible. You need to be the registered owner, have downspouts disconnected, and use a City-licensed contractor; we supply the invoice and photos. Current amounts are on the City's program page.