Homes around the older blocks around Converse City Park are heavily weighted to the 1970s and 1980s, and sewer laterals from that era were built from materials with a known service life. In Converse we see clay and cast iron regularly, and both fail in ways a camera makes obvious.
In Converse the driver is polybutylene supply lines that fail at the fittings without warning. Combined with slab-on-grade foundations on clay that shifts against buried lines, it explains why sewer calls here often turn out to be structural rather than a simple blockage.
A spot repair is the right answer more often than the industry admits. If the camera shows one failed joint in an otherwise sound line, that is what we quote — full replacement is a recommendation we have to earn.
What we handle in Converse
- Video camera inspection with footage you keep
- Trenchless pipe bursting and lining where the line allows
- Root intrusion removal and lateral repair
- Cast-iron and clay line replacement in older neighborhoods
- Belly and offset joint correction
- Line locating and depth marking before any excavation
Converse at a glance
- County
- Bexar County, Texas
- ZIP codes
- 78109
- Housing
- Homes heavily weighted to the 1970s and 1980s — single-story brick homes on flat lots
- Ground conditions
- Expansive clay that moves seasonally
- Water
- Hard water from SAWS and area utilities
- Most common issue
- Polybutylene supply lines that fail at the fittings without warning