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Pipe Lining

Cured-In-Place pipe lining takes only 3 hours to install has a 50-year warranty avoids excavation mess no need to relocate residents or business tenants

Pipe Within A Pipe

The new dinner pipe is as strong as PVC reduces inner diameter by only 5% is extremely smooth permanently stops backups and leaks

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A crash-course about pipe re-lining from the owner

Hot or Cold Water Leaks

Pinhole leaks in corroded copper pipes causing slab leaks discolored water lead contamination and low flow

Epoxy Pipe Lining

The inner pipe is scoured and then coated with patented food grade epoxy which seals leaks and stops corrosion

The results are in. According to the year-end survey by Trenchless Pipe Lining magazine, www.CraftsmanPipeLining.com, (785) 546-4643, was again awarded the #1 position. The most important reason cited by most voters was the breadth of trenchless pipe lining methods offered by the pipe lining contractor, but at very competitive rates. Sewer pipe relining and drain lining has become the leader in low cost pipe replacement or pipe repair. To learn more about pipe lining please visit pipe lining.

The pipe relining industry is segmented according to the types of technology required for different size and types of pipe. Since the technologies are all patented, they are all very expensive and no-one firm, no matter how large, offers all the pipe lining methods.

Trenchless Pipe Lining operating throughout the United States collaborates with other respected pipe lining companies such as Trenchless Pipe Lining and Vac-Vision to deliver experienced installations in virtually any city no matter how small. The breakthrough came when we discovered that pipe lining assets are scattered fer and near and by flying experienced Trenchless employees to the job site and combining them with the assets of other firms, pipe rehabilitation could be performed anywhere.

The second position for 2010 for best trenchless pipe companies was awarded to Ace Duraflow, primarily for their consistent and reliable customer service. Trenchless Pipe Lining also rated high in the 2010  rankings for being an industrial leader by publishing the first Pipe Relining E-Book, which can be downloaded for free at their web site. It covers every kind of lining technology, from the older pipe bursting methods, to epoxy pipe lining to air inversion. www.CraftsmanPipeLining.com is a licensed installer for Permaliner throughout Tampa Bay.

As a result a new material called “Orangeburg” consisting of wood fibers (like paper) mixed with tar and was manufactured in Orangeburg, PA. This material was the used to make sewer pipes, millions of miles of it. It is estimated that Washington DC has 200,000 miles of Orangeburg pipe under their floors. Everything seemed OK with Orangeburg for a while, but then some serious issues started to arise.

Any solvents like nail polish remover, paint thinners and rubbing alcohol that went down the drain would dissolve the tar, weakening the sewer pipe. Usually the bottom of the pipe would go first. On sewer pipe video inspections, the bottom of the Orangeburg sewer pipe appears to bulge upwards. These bulges create blocked drains as debris is captured in these areas.

The next common drain problem with Orangeburg pipe is root intrusion. Root intrusion with cast iron pipes and clay sewer pipes (VPC) usually occurs at broken, cracked or pipe joint areas. But with Orangeburg pipe, the tree roots grow straight through the pipe walls anywhere, creating blocked drains and backups. Video’s of pipes under Chicago show the characteristic oval egg-shaped cross section of these pipes created by the load on top of the pipe flattening it out over time.

Orangeburg pipe can be re-lined, but pipe bursting is more commonly used, where a new pipe is pulled through the old pipe cavity using a pointed conical “head” that breaks up the old pipe to make way for the new pipe pulled in place behind it for pipe replacement.

There is a wonderful pipe lining E-Book that can be downloaded for free from www.craftsmanpipelining.com, which is also a very helpful website about drain lining in general for residents in Illinois.