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Hot take: I skipped the sewer scope on a house in Denver and it cost me $12,000
I was buying a place last fall and the inspection went fine, so I figured the main line was probably okay. I mean, the house was only 25 years old. A month after moving in, the basement drain backed up and the plumber found the main line was completely collapsed under the driveway. The repair bill was huge and not covered by insurance. Has anyone else had a sewer scope find a major problem they didn't expect?
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jade2215mo ago
Only 25 years old" is the part that gets me. That's not an old house at all. I would have made the same call to skip it. It's crazy that a line could just fully collapse in that time. Makes you wonder what they used for the pipe material back then. That's a brutal lesson to learn after just moving in.
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noahchen3mo ago
Figured I was the only one who thought a 25 year old house was basically new, but now I'm totally changing my mind. I used to tell people they were crazy for worrying about a house built in the late 90s or early 2000s. Figured it was still solid, you know, like stuff from the 70s and 80s that just keeps going. But hearing about that pipe collapsing completely out of nowhere, that's a real eye opener. Makes you realize how much of that era was built with the cheapest plastic and the thinnest nails they could get away with. I guess those old houses from past decades were built to last, and these newer ones were built to just barely pass inspection.
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ben4365mo ago
Man, this is exactly what I'm talking about. It feels like so much stuff from the 90s and early 2000s was just built to fail. They used cheap materials everywhere to save a buck, and now it's all hitting its breaking point at the same time. It's not just pipes, it's appliances, siding, you name it. We're living in the era where all that cost-cutting is coming due, and regular people get stuck with the bill. It's a huge hidden cost of buying a house from that time.
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