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Sewer Line Repair in Houston, TX

In Houston the sewer lateral — the run from the house to the public main — belongs to whoever owns the property, not to the utility. There are 886,644 occupied homes here, and across all the housing the median build year is 1986 — the best single clue to what the pipe is made of and how it tends to fail.

In short

Cast iron on the house side with early PVC beyond it is the usual arrangement under Houston properties, whose housing typically dates from 1986. Iron corrodes along the bottom of the pipe, so a survey looks at the invert rather than at the seams.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25035.

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End of an old iron pipe projecting from a stone wall, its bore narrowed by rust and scale

What went in the ground around 1986

A lateral laid in Houston in that period is most likely cast iron on the house side and early PVC beyond it. Cast iron corrodes along the bottom of the pipe, so capacity is lost gradually rather than suddenly. More on cast iron laterals.

What a camera survey should settle here

On cast iron the recording should dwell on the bottom of the pipe, where corrosion channels and scale collect. The full picture on cast iron laterals.

Houston is the 1st largest block of laterals we cover in Texas, carrying about 19% of the 4,766,101 homes on our TX list, and its housing runs older than 84% of the TX towns we route. Age concentration matters on a lateral: where a whole street went in one season, the failures arrive in one season too.

46% of homes here are owner-occupied — 11 points below the TX figure. That matters more on a lateral than on almost any other pipe in the house: the run from the building to the main is the property owner’s to repair, and a landlord and a resident owner do not find that out at the same speed.

Median household income across Houston ZIP codes is $72,355 — context for a cost that arrives whole, with no share of it falling anywhere else.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2023 release — tables B25003 (occupied units), B25035 (all units) and B19013 (households). How these are aggregated.

Before anyone digs in Houston, get the run on camera — and ask what the bottom of the pipe looks like, because scale along the invert reads as a blockage. What the recording should show you.

Build era by ZIP code in Houston

ZIPTypical build yearLikely material
770022010plastic
770032006plastic
770041983cast iron
770051993plastic
770061996plastic
770072007plastic
770082000plastic
770091953Orangeburg
770102004plastic
770111947clay
770141996plastic
770181967Orangeburg
770192001plastic
770211965Orangeburg
770221965Orangeburg
770231955Orangeburg
770241981cast iron
770251988cast iron
770272003plastic
770301996plastic
770321986cast iron
770361977Orangeburg
770371968Orangeburg
770381987cast iron
770391973Orangeburg
770401986cast iron
770411995plastic
770421983cast iron
770431977Orangeburg
770442008plastic
770461989cast iron
770541991plastic
770551978Orangeburg
770561999plastic
770571978Orangeburg
770601980cast iron
770631979Orangeburg
770641993plastic
770651992plastic
770661985cast iron
770671985cast iron
770681985cast iron
770691987cast iron
770701996plastic
770732003plastic
770741973Orangeburg
770761963Orangeburg
770771988cast iron
770791978Orangeburg
770801974Orangeburg
770811976Orangeburg
770821992plastic
770831989cast iron
770841995plastic
770861984cast iron
770881978Orangeburg
770901986cast iron
770911985cast iron
770921975Orangeburg
770931966Orangeburg
770941996plastic
770951997plastic
770961970Orangeburg
770981995plastic

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ZIP codes we route in Houston

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Tell us your Houston ZIP code and what the drain is doing. Mention whether the house side or the yard side is slower. Drains aside, we take any plumbing job at all.

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