While your issue may have started with a clogged drain, it might have developed into something more serious. Besides slow drains and foul odors, green patches on the lawn and frequent toilet clogs are clear indications of a stressed sewer system. With all that water leaking into your lawn, it is clear that your problem is more than just a clog.
When our professional plumber comes to provide our Traverse City trenchless sewer repair service they will use their sewer camera to get down to the root cause. The video camera is a small device attached to a flexible cable, which is carefully fed through the sewer trap (or cleanout). It records live footage of your sewer pipe’s interior, helping us determine its material, condition, and age via a monitor. As the camera travels, it corresponds with a signal receiver that we use on the surface. This way, we can mark any areas that need treatment, including clogs. We’ll be able to see if the clog was caused by an accumulation of household waste or if you fell victim to a tree root invasion.
HydroScrub® Jetting
After locating and identifying the issues, our Traverse City trenchless sewer repair technicians will move on to the next important step—hydro jetting. You may be familiar with our drain cleaning services, during which we use pressurized water jets to break down clogs and debris inside pipes. The same type of HydroScrub® Jetting technology is used for sewer cleaning, whether it’s for regular maintenance or prior to a pipe repair service. It can reach a psi level of over 3,000 and is capable of breaking through tree roots.
Traverse City Trenchless Sewer Repair
You’ve come this far and are probably wondering how on earth we repair an underground pipe without digging a hole. That said, trenchless technology is only possible if the broken sewer pipe is still intact. Depending on the types of damage evident, we offer two main types of trenchless sewer repairs. Traverse City plumbers are well-versed in:
Pipe Lining
Pipe relining is the most common type of trenchless sewer repair in Traverse City and is also deemed non-invasive. Once our technicians have a clean pipe to work with, they will prepare an inflatable felt tube by soaking it in epoxy resin. Next, this replacement liner is fed through the cleanout and carefully guided toward the affected area, where it will be inflated and installed accordingly. Another term for this is a “cure-in-place pipe.” After about 48 hours, your sewer line’s original performance will be restored.
Pipe Bursting
The bursting process is a form of trenchless sewer replacement for which our Traverse City plumbers would use hydraulic power. This is a minimally invasive method that requires us to dig small access holes to reach your sewer lateral. A hydraulic bursting hammer with a burst head is fed into the sewer pipe. Using hydraulic power, it breaks apart the affected section of the old pipe. And as the broken pieces are being pulled through one of the access holes, a new HDPE pipe is pulled through the old one. Depending on how much damage is evident, this process can be repeated for the entire length of your existing sewer line.
