[Red in Blue PA]

Meanwhile find the tree and kill it.

There are two trees, side by side and each about 60 feet tall. The pipe goes between them. To take them down and grind the rotts would probably cost $7000. And that would not even begin to address the breached joint.

[mrsmith]

Forget that then, that’s the problem we had too and so just kept calling the plumber every couple years. You may not even want to try poisons.

Localities plan on doing major road repairs every 25 to 50 years.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Pssssst When the arborist says he’s going to cut down your tree an grind the roots, he just means that he’ll grind them down to yard level. They do NOT go underground and remove all the roots. We learned that the hard way when we wanted to install a paved circle, rose bed, and fountain where 2 trees had stood. We ended up having to raise the pavers and the rose bed because we could not remove dirt — too many roots in the way. The arborist came back twice, but we still had roots the size of my thigh left behind.