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26 jobs, 79 photographs, newest first.
3 photographs from this job
Under-slab tunneling
A new main hung the length of a hand-dug tunnel
Hangers set the whole way so the fall stays constant instead of settling into a belly, and long sweeps instead of tight turns — the same change of direction without the place a wipe can catch.
2 photographs from this job
Under-slab tunneling
Branch drains cut in and re-hung underneath
Every fixture group in the house brought back to one new main, photographed while the tunnel is still open because this is the last time anyone will see it.
2 photographs from this job
Under-slab tunneling
Daylight at the far end of the tunnel
Looking back down a finished run to the exit pit. Everything between the camera and that opening is new pipe.
3 photographs from this job
Under-slab tunneling
Traps, arms and branches rebuilt in place
Not patched around the failed section — the whole assembly under the slab replaced, then tied back to the stack that stays.
Sewer line replacement
A wye and a riser where the line leaves the house
Brought up to grade and capped, in the lawn rather than under the flowerbed. The next camera inspection should not have to start with a shovel.
Sewer line replacement
Routed past the condenser by hand
Working around what is already in the yard is most of the job on a narrow side lot — and the line and the refrigerant runs both came out of it intact.
Under-slab tunneling
Where the new pipe meets what stays
The transition made in the open, under the slab, supported and checked before anything is covered over.
Sewer line replacement
A new assembly dropped in at the foundation
Long sweeps rather than tight turns, dry-fit and levelled in the hole before a single joint was cemented.
15 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
Three days in one back yard
Dug on the Monday, pipe in and tested by the Thursday. The last frames are the line standing full of water in front of the homeowner, which is the part of the job worth watching.
3 photographs from this job
Under-slab tunneling
Five branch lines replaced without opening a floor
Everything under this house was reached from a hand-dug tunnel outside it. No slab cut, no cabinets pulled, no tile lifted.
2 photographs from this job
Bathroom remodel
Bathroom stripped back to the studs
Tile, tub and substrate out, so the supply and drain lines behind them get replaced rather than reconnected. The trap comes up with the floor.
2 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
Carried around the corner and back into the slab
One continuous run around two sides of the house. The hole stays open and the tape stays up until it has been signed off.
6 photographs from this job
Drain line replacement
Every drain in the house, replaced under the floor
Pier-and-beam, so the floor came up rather than the slab coming out. Old cast iron out of the joist bays, new PVC run, sloped and strapped at the code interval so nothing sags into a low spot later.
9 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
A main line replaced end to end, then filled and held
Grade set off a string rather than a guess, every branch given a wye and every wye somewhere to put a camera. It ends the way all of these should: plugged, filled, and holding.
Sewer line replacement
Patio cut, numbered, and set aside
The slabs go back down the way they came up. Most of what makes a dig bearable for the homeowner happens before the digging starts.
2 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
A run dug by hand down a three-foot side yard
Brick wall on one side, fence on the other, and nothing that fits between them except a shovel. The kitchen drain inside was rebuilt onto the same new line.
2 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
Walkway back down, cleanout left flush
This is the whole job as the neighbours saw it. The access point ends up level with the soil, capped, and easy to find again in five years.
Bathroom remodel
Plugged, filled, and left overnight
A shower pan gets tested before it gets tiled, because the only cheap time to find a leak is now.
3 photographs from this job
Bathroom remodel
Liner in, flood-tested, mud bed on top
40 mil run up the curb and held overnight, then a bed floated over it with even fall to the strainer from every direction.
Sewer line replacement
What seventy years does to cast iron
Sections of the original line stacked where they came out — scaled almost shut, and open at the joints where the roots got in.
2 photographs from this job
Water heater
A tankless stripped down rather than swapped out
Panel off, heat exchanger descaled, burner serviced, control board checked. A replacement would have been an easier sell and the wrong call.
3 photographs from this job
Gas line
New gas run to a standby generator
Coated poly with a fused tee, sized for what the generator actually draws rather than for what fits in the trench. Tracer wire and warning tape in before backfill.
2 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
The root that found the joint
Pulled out of the ground still wrapped around the failure. A slow backup inside the house usually looks like this from outside it.
2 photographs from this job
Repipe
Valve set, PEX run, wall ready to close
Rated and stamped pipe, set to finished-wall depth and secured to the framing. Everything that has to be right before anybody sees any of it.
6 photographs from this job
Sewer line replacement
Old cast iron out, new PVC in, yard put back
The line that failed and the line replacing it, side by side in the same trench before the old one leaves the property. The last frame is what the family came home to.
3 photographs from this job
Bathroom remodel
Shower rebuilt from the studs out
Waterproof board bonded to the studs and every seam sealed, then the pan sloped and the drain set, then tile straight over the top of it. The niche in the first frame is the one being tiled in the last.