The village where I live needed to replace the original sanitary sewer in the street. It is approx. 80 years old. All the houses on this street therefor need new laterals at least to the property line. Our laterals are also nearly 80. Much of this work, I'm told, was done even before the construction of the houses commenced.
We (homeowners) pay for this, at a rate of approx. $50/foot.
Homeowners have the option of having the new laterals run as close to the house as possible, at the same $50/foot. This typically would add 22 feet, so $1100.
All this cost is financed over 10 years at 4%. Or you can write-out a check.
It seems like most of the homeowners are having the new plastic run just to their property line, and leaving their old clay tiles beyond that. I had figured maybe these houses had PVC replacements previously, but the construction guys doing the work said, "nope."
They could get within about seven feet of my foundation (due to my porch), I would have loved to have them get even closer.
I told my wife having them run as far as they could was a "no-brainer," now I think she is wondering who the guy with the no-brain is because so many neighbors aren't paying the extra $1100.
But frankly I'm surprised people aren't having as much clay replaced with plastic, as possible. BTW, the plastic they're using is seamless. All the houses along my street have giant trees in their front yards, and this area supports one or two sewer cleaning services.
Would you pay the extra $1100 and have them run all the way to the house?
BTW, my brother brought up the point that maybe these people aren't planning on staying in their houses for long. The funny thing is, the only others I know of that decided to have the extra work done KNOW they're moving and think it is a selling advantage.