Method questions
A contractor choosing one method over another is making a judgement about your property. These questions surface what that judgement rests on.
What this page cannot establish
- SewerOwner cannot tell you which method is right for your property
- no method is better than another in general
The choice itself
- Why this method for this line?
- What did you consider and rule out, and why?
- What about my line makes the alternatives less suitable?
- What would have to be true for a different method to be better here?
What it depends on
- What has to be true about the pipe for this method to work?
- How was each of those things established?
- What happens if one of them turns out to be different?
- At what point in the work would you find that out?
Consequences
- What does this method disturb that another would not?
- What does it leave in place that another would remove?
- What does it make harder to do later?
- How would the result be verified?
What would change the answer
- what the inspection established about the line
- what each proposal states about the method
What to do next
The answers are easier to evaluate once you know what each method depends on.
Read what each method attemptsRelated, and why
- Trenchless and excavation
What each method attempts and depends on.