Pipe Rehabilitation

If you have damaged underground pipes, the first step a service technician will take is to locate the pipes, using pipe location equipment. Second, using video inspection equipment, the technician can use video inspection equipment to scan the inside of the lines and find clogs, cracks, and other signs of damage. Third, is determining a solution. When you’re dealing with pipes under your landscaped yard, the last thing you want is heavy machinery digging up sod, bushes, patios, and other features just to allow the technician to access the pipe. Thankfully, Rooter Town Denver has the skilled licensed service technicians adept in a variety of trenchless pipe rehabilitation methods. These methods allow us to repair pipe without digging deep into the yard and leaving a wake of damage in the process.

One form of pipe rehabilitation is called cured-in-place rehabilitation, in which we inject liquid plastic resin (or use a spraying device) to coat the inside of the pipe. This resin finds its way around bends and into cracks, joints, and ruts, and when it dries provides impermeability and smooth interior walls once again. Thus, leaks are eliminated, and water is able to flow unimpeded.

Another trenchless rehabilitation method is “pipe bursting”, in which a machine uses a pointed tool called a “bursting head” to demolish old pipe while simultaneously pulling in new pipe behind the head. And yet another method is “pipelining”, or “sliplining, which is essentially installing a pipe within a pipe, but inserting a slightly smaller-diameter pipe inside the existing pipe to create a new piping system.

Rooter Town Denver can advise on whether “trenchless” pipe rehabilitation methods make sense for your plumbing problem, and if so, which one is ideal. We’ll educate you on the process and always keep your pocket book in mind as we come up with the best and most cost-effective solution. If you have a problem with your underground pipes, call us today.