Lateral lining is exactly what it sounds like—lining the lateral pipes that come off of the mainline. However, the nature of pipe lining is a complex process, and it might seem a bit confusing to the naked eye. However, when it’s done, it’s as strong as a standard pipe and has a 50-year lifetime—possibly longer than the pipes you currently have in your home or business.
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Sometimes, you don’t need to spend a small fortune to repair your pipe. Contrary to what some contractors might tell you, if there’s a small leak in one of your pipes, you really don’t need to dig up the entire pipe for one small crack. There’s a very easy solution to the problem: trenchless pipe lining.
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No one likes costly repairs, but sometimes they are necessary—especially when it comes to your sewer lines. It’s terrible, it’s smelly, and worst of all, it usually requires digging. It’s even worse when it happens to the public sewer lines. Imagine a burst at the busiest intersection in town—talk about a rush hour that stinks! Luckily, with manhole-to-manhole trenchless sewer repair there’s no longer a need to dig or to reroute traffic. You can get that rush hour back to smelling like roses (or at least as close to roses as a roadway’s going to get) by lining your pipes using our techniques. How Manhole-to-Manhole Lining Works? To line a sewer using our trenchless technology, it’s pretty simple. Instead of digging in and replacing the entire section of sewer system, we close off the section of sewer that we’re repairing, bypass the sewage back into the sewer at a point further down (which makes sure the service is uninterrupted), and get to work. We go into the sewer, after it's empty, and invert a liner filled with resin into the drain from one end to the other. After that, we circulate hot water or steam into this resin which, after reaching a certain temperature, begins the curing process. It will set into place relatively quickly (around 2 to 4 hours), after which we would then finish the process and open the sewer back up. The liner is rated for 50 years, which is a long interval considering that none of the pipe is replaced.
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Regardless of who we are, we all have specific services in our homes, and one of the most important is our water control pipes—sewer, rainwater, and so forth—that often are made of cast iron. Sitting water on the roof and raw sewage are risks to our building and to our health. But what happens if a leak develops in one of these pipes? In a residential situation, that’s just the gutter for rainwater, and that’s easy to fix. But what if one of your sewer pipes develops a leak? Or, in a high-rise, what if your rainwater pipe from the roof develops a leak? That runs right through your building, and any leak means that the units inside of your high-rise is at risk for water damage—condominiums, offices, anything in between!
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In many of our blog posts as well as our dedicated CCTV webpage we’ve discussed the many benefits of sewer TV inspection. Just to recap, here are but a few:
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When you are choosing a plumber, you need to choose one who offers a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art services at reasonable rates with incentives for you to come back should you ever require their services again. One of the great benefits of the internet is that you can now easily research not only the background of the company you’re considering bringing into your home, but also their services, the terms by which those services are offered and make informed choices faster than you ever could with the Yellow Pages. It’s to everyone’s benefit that we are all becoming smarter consumers. With this in mind, here are six essential services that your plumber should offer—and not just in Sacramento, either.
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Well, who would have ever connected drain cleaning with the Holidays? But you know what? It makes sense. Why? Many of us have friends and family in for the holidays, whether it is for a party or to host the family celebration. And if you are like us, then that means you demand perfection. You just don’t want anything to do wrong. So imagine the following: everyone is enjoying each other’s company, having wonderful conversations and catching up when the plumbing goes out, or worse, your toilet overflows. Yeah. That could lead to a pretty bad scene.
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The most respected cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) contractors share many of the same traits. From the experiences they have together to the equipment they use, the commonalities of contractors stretch far and wide!
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