We are not plumbers, we just pull the new lines to help make their jobs better. Imagine working hard for years in the hot summer heat to get your lawn and landscaping just perfect. You have the best lawn in the neighborhood. Suddenly out of the blue, your main waterline busts somewhere in your yard. Water is going everywhere, WHAT DO YOU DO? Of course, the first thing is to turn your water off to
your home. Then you must think about the repair. Most people only think you only have one choice. Dig up the entire yard and replace your line because so many lines today cannot be repaired. But you do have a choice. So, what are trenchless waterlines? I even get this question from some experienced plumbers that have not been introduced to this technique. Let me use an analogy. Let’s say someone needs a major surgery. They usually have 2 choices. Open surgery or arthroscopic surgery. Open Surgery, which has a large incision, causes major scaring, and takes longer to recover. Arthroscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery, uses smaller incisions with a faster recovery. Traditional waterline replacement (digging a ditch for the entire waterline) is like open surgery, while trenchless waterline replacement is like arthroscopic or minimally invasive. For trenchless waterlines, we only need a small pit where the water goes into the home, one at the irrigation box (if applicable), and one at the meter. There are some exceptions like if repairs or 90-degree elbows are installed somewhere in the existing line. Have you ever seen a beautiful lawn, and then there is a long off-color strip in the yard that goes from the house all the way to the street, and asked the owner, “What is that?” They will usually say that’s my water or sewer line I had to replace, and they did so by digging. We basically feed a line thru the existing line and pull a new line behind our bursting head. Sometimes, we split the old pipe and sometimes, all or part of the old line come out when we pull it. We can go under driveways and sidewalks. Our worst nemesis is when a tree is planted many years ago directly over the old line and roots have wrapped around the old waterline. Sometimes, we cannot pull these. Sorry. Although we make it look easy sometimes, it has taken 10 years of tweaking our process to in order to give you a professional and least invasive job we can. We are not plumbers; we just pull the waterlines for the plumbers and are usually a LESS EXPENSIVE than the more invasive alternative. Ask your plumber today about trenchless waterlines or call me and I can give you some names of the professionals I work with on a day-to-day basis.
