UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

Woo-hoo updating with good news. I officially stopped digging. I officially hired someone to dig. And he officially found the problem. YAY!

Two weeks later the problem has been found- not solved, but found! Our pipe collapsed at the break between the plastic pipe and cement. This is good news all around. No major problem but a collapsed pipe that doesn’t require any further digging or any further snaking. It’s going to get resolved within the next couple days. Our nice young man who has been digging even helped temporarily fix the problem to get us through the next couple days until it is officially fixed this weekend.

6 feet long 4 1/2 feet deep

The temporary fix

Yay! The problem still lies ahead as my husband will be doing the plumbing fix to save us thousands of dollars so the prayer is that he can figure it out and fix it properly. BUT I am happy to report that from here on out should be easier than we had previously expected!