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Yep, replacement with PVC is in progress. I know what you mean about roots travelling, but my point with council was there isn't really any private trees around, but there is a reserve choc full of council trees all the way up the side of the property.

Thanks for all the info, I've flicked you a PM. Speaking to council before, they were very off-hand about my chances of a claim, spouting how difficult it was to ascertain exactly which tree is causing the damage and who owns it. I made her pull a map up and highlighted there wasn't a single...

Thanks for the tips, I'll go check out the diagrams now. Mean time, these are the trees. They run parallel with the waste pipe all the way up the boundary to the left of the house. The trees are on council land, the waste pipe on my land runs between the house and tree line.

Thanks Bob, is this the one you mean? https://www.sydneywater.com.au/web/groups/publicwebcontent/documents/document/zgrf/mdqz/~edisp/dd_043649.pdf I'll call an arborist later, see what a report would cost. It wouldn't hurt my case to have a report to send to council. Thanks.

I'm in the process of having a terracotta sewer pipe replaced with PVC. To help with your reference for costs, it is costing me $6500 to have 30 meters of sewer pipe dug up and replaced with PVC. Price includes making good the soil afterward, (through the garden, no concrete thankfully), and all...