“most of the money comes from repair.”
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Good for you.
In utter desperation my daughter paid a plumber $600.00 for draining out a very small cellar———it took him about 3/4 of an hour-—and this was 20 years ago.
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600 dollars sounds about right for the job, more importantly did the plumber find the source of the water.
Was it a wast water or potable water leak, was it just ground water intrusion from saturated ground outside.
Those are the things the homeowner NEEDS to know.