Broken Sewer Lines SUCK

This is what we had fun doing a couple of weeks ago. I came home from walking the dogs and saw raw sewage on the side walk in front of our house that had spewed up from behind a wooden retaining wall. I could tell it was our raw sewage from all the tampons. Nice!
So we started digging. First removing the wooden retaining wall then jack hammering the old cement retaining wall that the previous owners had hidden behind the newer wooden one. Then LOTS of digging and SURPRISE! the old cement retaining wall had slowly sunk upon and crushed the old clay sewer line. Luckily our pal Cliff (pictured here next to large semi cab.) could lend us his jack hammer which helped us immensely!
After finding the crushed line and hammering up the square of sidewalk above the line. We replaced the old clay pipe with new ABS plastic. Gotta love plastic sometimes! We buried the new line. Poured the new sidewalk and called it done. I won't tell you what we really called it but you can imagine.
But we fixed our sewer lateral for under $250 dollars. Pretty good considering it could have cost us $3000 if we had called someone in to do it for us.
WOO HOO! Girl Power (+ Cliffs Jack Hammer)!