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What's the most damage a single action has done to your home? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

60 year old house. They used to use this stuff called "no corrode" pipe for sewage. It was made of tar and straw and had around a 60 year service life. Mine finally collapsed, backed up and caused $30k of damage to my basement + 25k cost to dig up my back yard to replace it.