The last few days we’ve had some serious problems with the sewer again. Things started out last week when the neigbors (nr. 88) knocked on the door after we had a shower: they ‘d get water in the basement each time we shower. Oops.
We did some checks with another friendly neighbor and quickly found a sink just outside the front door which was flooding. There were some plant roots in it so we hoped that that was causing our problems. Nope, no such luck. On wednesday a company came over to clean the pipes. They worked on it for about 2 hours but that didn’t help us much either. I ended up digging up the pipes in the evening (with a bit of help from a friendly neighbor across the street) only to discover another sink about a meter away from the house. From there on the pipe is running parallel to the houses…
To cut a long story short: it seems that there’s 5 houses on a single pipe before it empties in the city sewer system. Of course the city officials won’t do a damn thing until they’re sure there’s a problem on their turf. Our pipes are clean, but we’re stuck with the hassle as water always seeks the weekest point. Just our luck! Anyway, I pulled the files of the piping system from city hall, made lots and lots and lots of phonecalls the last few days and spend some time talking to the neighbors about sharing cost of a camera investigation. If all goes well they’ll come this tuesday to pinpoint the problem. Hopefully we can fix things soon after! Our front yard is a mess 
To be continued…