A homeowner in Sacramento, California had a sewage backup and called a plumber to camera the line. The camera found a crushed section of the main sewer pipe under the slab foundation. The first quote was to locate that crushed spot and repair it there, no more.
Then the crew opened the slab to get at the pipe. What they found was bigger than a locate-and-patch job, and the new number was nowhere near the first one. The homeowner posted the two figures in a thread from November 2025 and asked plumbers on Reddit whether the jump made sense.
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The quotes, in the order they came
The first quote was $4,000, to locate the crushed section and perform a spot repair…