When your sewer line is too far gone for another repair, Earl's Plumbing replaces it the right way — camera-verified, properly sloped, with easy cleanout access — so you stop paying for the same backup over and over.
Call or text (530) 343-0330 — a real person answers calls day or night.
Mention this page when you call or text, or add "$25 web offer" when you book online. Financing available on approved credit.
📞 Claim by Phone 📅 Claim OnlineSome sewer problems are a one-time fix. Others are the underground version of a check-engine light that's learned to scream.
Whole-house backups that keep returning after cleaning
Roots back in the line every time it's cleared
Original clay or cast iron pipe that's decades old
A camera showed breaks, sags, or offsets in several places
Soggy, sunken, or extra-green strips across the yard
You've paid for spot repairs before and it's failing again
Not sure if it's time? We'll put a camera in it and show you — then give you a straight answer.
We match the fix to your pipe — not to the biggest job in the toolbox.
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Real failures we've dug up across Northern California.
Decades-old clay cracks, shifts, and lets roots in at every joint. Past a point, patching it is just paying twice.
This Chico line was punctured when fiber optic cable was bored through the yard. Nearby utility work causes more sewer damage than you'd think.
We replace lines on septic properties too, after confirming the problem is the line and not the tank or drain field.
Real photos from real Earl's jobs. Part diagnosis, part excavation, part pipe work, and part clean-up choreography.
We camera the line and show you the offsets, breaks, or roots. No replacement gets recommended on a hunch.
After utilities are marked, we open the trench and set base material so the new pipe is fully supported and won't settle.
Sewer lines drain by gravity. We check slope before anything gets buried, so the new line doesn't build its own belly.
While the line is open, we add cleanout access where the layout allows, so future cleaning and camera work is quick and easy.
We backfill, clean up, and patch asphalt where we cut it. You'll know the restoration plan before the work starts.
It's one of the biggest plumbing jobs a house ever gets. It should be done once, and done right.
You see the camera footage before we recommend anything. If a spot repair will do, we'll say so.
Proper bedding, checked slope, clean transitions. A new line shouldn't hide the next backup underground.
Cleanout upgrades where the layout allows, so you're never pulling a toilet to clear the main again.
Monthly payments on approved credit, so a failed sewer line doesn't have to wreck the budget.
No service call fee. You know the price and the restoration plan before we start digging.
If it's not right, we come back and make it right. 28 years and three local offices behind that.
Here's a funny thing about sewer lines: there's no pump. Everything leaving your house rides gravity downhill to the street or the septic tank. Lay the pipe a little too flat, skip the bedding, or let one section sag, and you've just built the next clog — and buried it.
That's why our crews take the boring steps seriously: solid base under the pipe, slope checked before backfill, and a cleanout where we can fit one. Nobody's ever going to admire your sewer line. (I hope.) But if we do it right, you'll never have to think about it again.
— Clinton EarlOwner, Earl's Plumbing · Your Friend in the Business
Three local offices covering eight Northern California counties. Every line takes calls and texts.
Redding · Anderson · Cottonwood · Shasta Lake · Palo Cedro · Red Bluff · Corning
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Straight answers for homeowners weighing cleaning, repair, and replacement.
Earl's Plumbing gives a free, upfront quote before any sewer line replacement begins. Cost depends on the length and depth of the line, the soil, whether it runs under concrete or asphalt, the city or septic connection, and permits. You approve the price first. There is no service call fee, and financing is available on approved credit. Call or text (530) 343-0330.
A sewer line usually needs replacing when it is collapsed, cracked or offset in several places, sagging with bellies, full of roots along many joints, or still backing up after proper cleaning. If the damage is limited to one section and the rest of the pipe is sound, a spot repair is usually the better value, and Earl's Plumbing will tell you so.
Earl's Plumbing runs a sewer camera inspection before recommending any replacement. The camera shows offsets, roots, breaks, bellies, and collapsed pipe along the full line, and you watch the footage with the technician. That way the recommendation is based on what is actually in your pipe, and you can see the problem for yourself before deciding.
Sewer line replacement requires digging a trench along the line, so some disturbance to soil, landscaping, concrete, or asphalt is expected. Earl's Plumbing explains the work area and restoration plan before work begins, backfills the trench when the pipe is in, and patches asphalt where it was cut. The route and depth decide how much surface is affected.
Earl's Plumbing replaces sewer lines for homes on septic systems as well as city sewer. On septic properties, we first confirm whether the failure is in the line to the tank, the tank itself, or the drain field, so you only replace the part that is actually failing. We have replaced septic-connected lines in Redding and across Northern California.
Sewer line slope matters because most home sewer lines move waste by gravity alone. A line that is too flat, too steep, or poorly supported will hold water and solids and clog again. Earl's Plumbing sets the new pipe on a bed of base material and checks the slope before the trench is backfilled, so the new line drains the way it should.
Earl's Plumbing charges no service call fee, ever. I've never liked that practice — you shouldn't have to pay just to find out what something costs, and on a job this size you should get a careful look first. We camera the line, show you what we found, and give you a free quote. If you say no, you owe nothing.
Earl's Plumbing offers same-day service when a technician is available, and calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every office line also takes texts: Chico (530) 343-0330, Redding (530) 244-3275, or Yuba City (530) 674-0330. If sewage is backing up into the house right now, call instead of booking online so we can prioritize you.
