Sewer Line Repair & Replacement in Sour Lake, TX

Sewer Line Repair & Replacement Services in Sour Lake, TX

Sour Lake is one of the oldest oil boom towns in Southeast Texas, part of the same wave of discovery that put Spindletop on the map at the start of the last century. That history left Sour Lake with some of the oldest housing stock in Hardin County, and the sewer laterals underneath those homes are just as old, clay tile and cast iron pipe that were standard when the town went up and have been settling into the ground near Pine Island Bayou on its way to the Neches ever since. We run sewer line calls into Sour Lake from Beaumont, about 17 miles northwest, and a hundred years of ground settling does more to a clay tile lateral than most homeowners expect. Joints separate a little at a time over decades, roots find those openings long before a pipe ever cracks outright, and by the time a backup shows up inside the house, the failure has usually been developing for years underground. Properties on the historic core of town typically tie into city sewer. Out on Sour Lake's outskirts, private septic is still common, the same way it is in a lot of Hardin County's more rural stretches. Porter's Plumbing Solutions repairs sewer laterals throughout Hardin County, and our TSBPE licensed master plumbers bring 25 years in the trade to a town where the plumbing is often as old as the house standing above it.