Bath and laundry floors cleared after a sewer line backed up
Example project
- Home
- One-story 1970s house in Cornelius with a second bathroom off the main bedroom
- Original request
- Replace the hall bath and laundry floors after a sewer line backed up into them
- Testing
- Tile and the black adhesive tested on their own
- Found
- Asbestos in the black adhesive
- Clear
- No asbestos in the tile itself
- Area
- About 160 sq ft across the bath, the laundry and the hall between them
- Timeline
- Plumber first, then the five-day DEQ notice, then two working days
- Cost
- $2,600
In this example, a sewer line backs up into the hall bath and the laundry of a 1970s house in Cornelius. The plumber clears the line, but the soaked tiles have lifted, and the owners want new floors in both rooms.
