Before & After Pipe Relining A Severely Tree Root-Affected Sewer Drain at a Retirement Village
In this video, you will witness how we’ve successfully relined a severely tree-root-affected sewer drain at a retirement village. Right off the bat, you can see the before video from my initial inspection. I am commentating about all of the tree root intrusions and blockages within the old earthenware pipeline. You can see that there are a lot of tree roots that the pipe is almost blocked.
In this scenario, you will see that a couple of patches won’t do the job since most joints throughout the entire length of pipe tree root intrusions. In addition, patches are more expensive per meter as well so you’d be wasting your time and money, because you will end up relining over those patches in the future.
The after video is the finished product where we relined 30 metres of 150mm pipe in 30 minutes! Relining this pipe with speed was essential, as at this particular retirement village we are not able to shut down the water to any of the villas. To stop water the flow we can only plug off lines, as this was a mainline the pipe needed to be relined within 45 minutes otherwise there may have been sewer flooding in many villas.
This pipe is now all sealed up and will never block again!