The pipes buried between your house and the street do the hardest work in your plumbing system, and when they fail, the symptoms show up in unpleasant ways: soggy trenches in the lawn, sewage backing into the house, or a water bill that suddenly doubles. IDB Plumbing Solutions replaces water services and sewer laterals across Washington State — and in most cases, we do it without excavating a trench through everything you've planted.
Trenchless replacement changed this work fundamentally. With pipe bursting, we pull a new high-density polyethylene pipe through the path of the old one, fracturing the failed pipe outward as the new one takes its place — one entry pit, one exit pit, and your yard, driveway, and mature trees stay intact. With cured-in-place lining, we can rehabilitate structurally sound pipe with a new jointless liner inside the old host. Both methods produce a line with a service life measured in generations, and both are typically finished in a day or two.
Every underground job starts with evidence, not guesswork. We camera the line, locate defects by depth and position, and show you the footage. If a spot repair will genuinely solve the problem, we quote the spot repair — replacing an entire lateral to fix one root intrusion is the kind of overselling we built this company to compete against. When full replacement is warranted, you get an itemized quote covering everything: permits, utility locates, excavation, restoration, and inspection.
We coordinate the whole process, including city and county permits, right-of-way work where the lateral crosses public property, and connection inspections. Conventional open-trench replacement remains the right tool in some situations — shallow lines, severe collapses, or lines with major grade problems — and we're straightforward about when that's the case. Either way, the line gets replaced once, correctly, with a warranty behind it.