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At All Service Plumbing we do more than just clean drains. We specialize in Sewer Repair and Rehabilitation. Here are some common reasons why we would recommend repair or rehabilitation:
- Broken, cracked, offset, or collapsed pipes: Damaged pipes due to shifting or soil setting.
- Blockage: Grease build up or a foreign object restricting or prohibiting proper flow or cleaning of line.
- Corrosion: Pipe has deteriorated and or broke causing collapse in the line and restricting flow.
- Bellied Pipe: A section of the pipe has sunk due to ground or soil conditions, creating a valley that collects paper and waste.
- Leaking Joints: Seals between pipes have broken, allowing water and waste to escape into the surrounding area
- Root Infiltration: Tree or shrub roots have invaded the sewer line, preventing normal cleaning and damaging the sewer line.
Why Trenchless Sewer Repair?
Trenchless sewer repairs offer a number of useful advantages over traditional, digging-intensive approaches to fixing sewer problems:
- Less lawn and landscape damage. Many homeowners put a lot of love and dedication into maintaining lush green lawns and beautiful gardens, which sewer repair trenches can quickly destroy. Trenchless repairs eliminate this problem.
- Simpler process for contractors. Trench digging is a notoriously labor-intensive process, requiring significant manpower and physical strain. For sewer repair professionals, trenchless techniques are simpler to perform, as well as less time-consuming.
- No risk of driveway and concrete damage. When sewer lines are located below a driveway, patio, or another section of concrete, trench-based sewer repair can be seriously disruptive, and lead to significant costs to replace sections of your driveway after the repairs. This isn’t a problem with trenchless techniques.
Pipe Bursting
The basics of pipe bursting are straightforward. The pipe bursting system is dedicated equipment and there are contractors who specialize in pipe bursting as a trenchless means of pipe replacement.
- Push the rod of a pipe-bursting system into the existing pipe. Attach bursting blades to the end of the rod and add an expander, which may be as much as 30 percent larger than the new pipe’s outside diameter, to the pipe bursting system’s rod.
- Connect the new pipe to the expander.
- Pull the rod back through the pipe, drawing the bursting blades through the old pipe, breaking it up. The expander, which immediately follows the bursting blades as they are pulled through the old pipe, expands the burst pipe, pushing its fragments into the surrounding earth. The new pipe is attached to, pulled by and follows the expander through the length of the existing bore.
When the bursting blades and expander leave the bore, the new pipe is in place, waiting to be connected to the appropriate service.
Pipe bursting is appropriate when a trenchless means of replacing an aging or damaged pipeline is desirable. The need for geological investigation is minimal, if any investigation is required at all.
Because pipe bursting supplants the existing pipe with new pipe as the existing pipe is destroyed, and because there’s no need to remove or dispose of the failed pipe, project time and cost is likewise minimized.
CIPP Relining. Commonly referred to as Trenchless Sewer Lining or Sewer Sleeve:
- Cure-in-place pipe (CIPP) relining is one of the most common trenchless sewer repair techniques that we use at All Service Plumbers Drain and Hydro-Jet. It’s great for fixing cracks, leaks, and other imperfections in residential and commercial sewer laterals, as well as larger municipal sewer main lines. It can also be used in underground drain pipes and water mains.
- CIPP drain and sewer relining allows us to install a durable liner that patches holes and cracks inside of a buried pipe, without needing to dig a trench for access. For sewer lines, the process can be completed through manholes and sewer cleanouts.
- Using a pneumatic bladder, we insert a flexible resin-coated liner that can be cured and hardened in place using hot water, steam, or UV light. Once in place, CIPP liners can last for decades.
How Trenchless Pipe Bursting Works
A short equipment overview of lateral pipe bursting, the method we use to replace sewer laterals without trenching.
Why choose All Service Plumbing to handle your Sewer Repair? We are the best in the industry. We are Licensed and Bonded with the City of Los Angeles to handle Engineering grade sewer rehabilitation.
Sewer Repair: Quick Answers
Sewer repair fixes the underground pipe that carries wastewater from a building to the city main. After a camera inspection shows where and how the pipe has failed, the damaged section is repaired, relined or replaced, either by digging or with trenchless methods that leave most of the yard and driveway untouched.
What are the signs of a broken sewer line?
Repeated backups in the lowest drains, several slow fixtures at once, sewage smells indoors or in the yard, soggy or unusually green patches of lawn, and gurgling toilets are the usual signs. A sewer camera inspection confirms what is wrong and where.
What causes sewer lines to fail?
Tree roots entering through joints, old clay and cast iron pipe that has cracked or corroded, ground movement that leaves a sag or offset in the line, and years of grease buildup are the most common causes in Southern California homes.
How does a plumber find the problem?
A waterproof camera is fed through a cleanout and down the line. It shows the condition of the pipe on a screen, and a locator above ground marks the position and depth of the damage, so only the part that needs work is opened up.
Does my yard have to be dug up to repair a sewer line?
Not always. Many lines can be fixed with trenchless methods such as pipe lining or pipe bursting, which work from one or two small access pits. A traditional excavation is still needed when the pipe has collapsed or has a severe sag.
Who is responsible for the sewer line, the homeowner or the city?
In most Southern California cities the property owner is responsible for the sewer lateral from the building to the connection at the city main, which can include the portion under the sidewalk or street. Check with your city’s public works department for the local rule.
Does All Service Plumbing repair sewer lines in the City of Los Angeles?
Yes. All Service Plumbing is a bonded sewer contractor for the City of Los Angeles and repairs and replaces sewer lines across Los Angeles County and Orange County. Call (888) 300-9648.
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