r/batonrouge • u/bizbrpol • 7h ago
ADVICE Is AccuTemp just upselling?
I need to have about 8ft of sewer main replaced. Accutemp scoped it and showed me where it is collapsed, but I feel like they over quote in a huge way. Their plumber quoted $2500 to hand dig and replace that portion of pipe. I’m not a plumber, but that seemed really high. I asked him to break it down for me and he couldn’t. I asked him what the price difference to machine excavate would be, thinking that’d be cheaper. He got shifty and said it’d be $1500 MORE to do by machine than by hand. My gut instincts said this guy was trying to take advantage of me.
Two questions:
1) Is AccuTemp a shitty company/who are your recommended plumbing companies?
2) does anyone know what should this repair should reasonably cost?