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| Mr. Drain ® Pipe Slice ® |
| Trenchless Water Line Replacement |
Average American homeowners and businesses enjoy excellent water service. The municipal water line is located under the street, and you connect to the water under your property, and into your home. Simply turning your water faucet delivers clean, fresh water for drinking, cooking, cleaning and bathing.
The majority of the time, your water line will give you years of wonderful service. But, if you ever notice a water pressure drop, water discoloration, or a wet soggy area develops in your yard.
There are many reasons why your water line may require repair work. Water line problems can be the result of tree roots getting in the pipe, mineral build up and residue, high water pressure, ground movement, acidic soil conditions, freezing and thawing plus general deterioration of the water pipe over time.
Water main line problems are sometimes worse than sewer lines. Many older homes will need their water mains replaced due to the age of the pipes. These installations can be difficult. For those homeowners and businesses in Westlake Village Mr. Drain ® Plumbing have years of experience in repairing and replacing water mains. A water main that is replaced can result in better water flow to the residential or commercial property, which increases your water quality. If your property is experiencing slow or low pressure water even though your water pipes are clean and unclogged, this may be an indication that you need a new water main line.
The water leaks in the front yard or driveway mostly result because of offsets, cracks, breaks in pipes settled pipes, rust build up in the pipes, old age of pipes. At Mr. Drain ® Plumbing of Westlake Village our experts not only can repair the leaking or broken pipe but also have art of replacing the water main line with out braking the driveway or digging trenches
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| The Problem The water lines leaks when they corrode rust and break. Following are some of the major reasons why water lines break, crack or leak. |
- Broken, Cracked, Offset or collapsed water pipe
- Damaged pipes due to the shifting of soil
- Damaged pipes due to weather effect on above and bellow earth pipe
- Frozen ground, settling
- Rustor Algae build up in the water lines restricts flow
- Bad color and odor because of rust
- Leaking joints from connectionsand straight run
- In case of PVC and SDR crack and break due to heat and hardness of material
- Tree or shrub roots have invaded the water line
- Break, Leak and Crack in case of metal pipes after some passage of time
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| The Solution |
 The word "TRENCHLESS"means no trench or doing something without trenching and digging. This can be the process of repair or replacement of sewer, water and gas lines without opening a trench. Now it does not mean that Westlake Village trenchless does not requireany digging or trenching at all, still the access points are digged to insert new pipe. Westlake Village trenchless pipeline replacement can save a homeowner's yard, landscaping, or rockery from being disturbed. It also allows for pipeline replacement in areas where it is not accessible to excavation equipment and would otherwise have to be dug up by hand or by heavy equipment.
Mr. Drain ®uses Pipe Slice ® Trenchless technology also called " Pipe Slicing " to replace water lines from size 1" to 4". As the name implies, stands for subsurface construction works where less trenches or no continuous trenches are required to be dug. It is a rapidly growing sector of the construction and civil engineering industry. It can be defined as "A family of methods, materials, and equipment capable of being used for the installation of new or replacement or rehabilitation of existing underground infrastructure with minimal disruption to surface traffic, business, and other activities. This process involves inserting new line if the old line cannot be sliced. In that case a bullet head is powered using a high power gas air compressor and it pulls the new SDR (Poly- Ethylene) water line.
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On Any Trenchless Water Service - Westlake Village Trenchless Water Line Repair Westlake Village Trenchless Water Line Fix - Pipe Slice Service in Westlake Village - Trenchless Water Line Replacement with a very Minimum Yard Damage |
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| How Trenchless Water Line Replacement works? |
 Mr. Drain ® uses Pipe Slice ® Trenchless no dig technology to replace the water lines with out opening big trenches. Following is the detail description that what are the conditions in which you need to replace your sewer or drain lines and what is the trenchless no dig technology and how it works.
Mr. Drain ® Trenchless Service provides water line replacement using the Pipe Slice ® Trenchless technology. This is a method of replacing an old water pipe with a new poly-pipe of the same or a larger inner diameter.Two holes are excavated in areas of replacement. A very minimum yard will be damaged in this process. The landscape will be covered with protectors so no landscape is damaged. A Pipe Slice ® process is used in which the slice head is used to cut through the pipe from one point to the other. In some cases trenchless toll is used to bore a hole from one hole to the other. The max length between holes varies. A poly-pipe or SDR pipe is then pulled through and the final connection are made. The inspections are done with the city inspectors. The system is flushed so all debris are released to deliver you clean and fresh water. Further inspections are done for leaks and remaining debris are cleaned.
A worse scenario is if the water main is completely broken which can completely block access to water for the affected building. Although local governments, smaller water mains, control many major water mains or access pipes to water mains will require private attention.
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| Repair or Replace Water Lines by Pneumatic Piercing or Bullet process |
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This process involves repairing or replacing the water lines by line piercing, boring or drilling using the bullet kind of tool. An underground piercing tool is also known as a boring tool. It is air driven and typically used when soil conditions make tunneling by hand difficult. It is also utilized when making additional excavations or trench work. Like other trenchless process this method also involves to dig two holes one on each side.
The typical piercing tool is between 3' and 4' in diameter, although other sizes are made as well. They are in a shape similar to a missile. This tool is air powered and has a piston inside the body that pushes the head forward and drives the tool itself into the soil. When the piston and the head of the tool retract it is at a lower rate of speed so it remains imbedded in the surrounding soil. Each push forward allows it to penetrate further into the soil until eventually the tunnel is completed.There's a piston that runs inside the barrel of the tools; it's the inertia of the piston striking the nose of the tool that moves it forward in the ground. A portable compressor runs the piercing bullet. The bullet head requires 80 to120 psi pressure. The pneumatic tools offer an economical alternative to pipe bursting and other trenchless methods when replacing 30- to 500-foot-long service lines, two inches in diameter and smaller.
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 In many cases you will only need to replace a section of the water line. Damaged sections of water pipes can be replaced with high-quality piping. In other cases, you may need to replace the entire water line if there is significant damage throughout the pipe. After installation the repaired or replaced water line is pressure tested for any leaks. An inspection and approval by the municipality is then performed. After this, your landscaping will be restored to their condition prior to the water line repair work
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The image bellow is the courtesy of Mr. Drain ® Plumbing of Westlake Village to give you a detailed idea about how Pipe Slice ® process of replacing water lines work using Piercing or Bullet process. |
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| Repair or Replacement of Water Line by Pipe Slitter process |
 Like the name represents this Trenchless process of water line replacement involves slitting or slicing of the old water line.
The trenchless water pipe replacement device includes a cable pulling device, a length of cable, a pipe splitting device and a cable end piece. The ends of the existing pipe are exposed, and the cable is fished through the pipe from a front end to a rear end. A cable end piece, that includes a relatively flat pipe end engagement surface, is then engaged to the end of the cable proximate the rear end of the pipe to be replaced. A suitable length of replacement pipe is then attached to the cable end piece. Either soft Type K Copper tube or SDR pipe is used in the replacement of water Line. At the front end of the cable a Hydraulic cable pulling device is installed.The pulling cabled is connected to the Hydraulic puller. The Hydraulic puller starts pulling the cable and the Slitting Head starts breaking or slicing through the existing pipe, such that the pipe-contacting surface of the cable end piece makes contact with the rear end of the pipe. Further pulling of the cable by the Hydraulic pullercreates sufficient tension and pulling force on the rear end of the pipe that the pipe becomes dislodged from its location within the ground. Further this pulling process results in the existing pipe being pulled through the ground by the force of the cable end piece upon the rear end of the pipe, and the replacement pipe is pulled into the cavity due to its attachment with the cable end piece. Hence in this process the Slitting Head slices the old water pipe and new pipe is pulled until the slitting head reaches to its destination. If the dirt is soft the old pipe is also pulled out with the slitter but if the dirt is hard the slitter head slices the old pipe and it stays in the dirt.
The pipe splitter is engaged at the front end of the pipe to split the pipe as it emerges. The pipe splitting device includes a tapered nose portion having a nose tip that is inserted into the front end of the pipe prior to the activation of the Hydraulic puller. The nose portion of the pipe splitter preferable includes a cable groove, which guides the cable towards the cable pulling device, and a sharpened edge, which serves as a splitting force focal point for splitting the pipe as it is pulled. In the preferred embodiment, the tapered nose is formed with a taper angle of from 1° to 15°, and preferably approximately 2°, To place the cable pulling device out of a direct line of the emerging pipe, the pipe splitting device is preferable formed with an elbow having an angle of from 20° to 90° and preferably approximately 30° to 35°.
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| Repair or Replacement of Water Line by Pipe Slice ® |
 Water is typically supplied to buildings, whether commercial or residential, through water pipes that are buried in the ground. These water pipes are typically galvanized steel pipes, although copper, plastic and other pipe materials are sometimes utilized, and such water pipes typically have a diameter from approximately ½ inch to approximately 3 inches. For various reasons, such as corrosion or puncture, it can become necessary to replace the existing pipe with a new water pipe. Typically, this replacement process involves the digging of a trench in the ground along the path of the existing pipe to expose it, remove it and install a replacement pipe. Such trenches can be expensive and disruptive of landscaping and perhaps a structure that has been placed over the existing pipe, and are therefore in the way of the trench, that must be dug for pipe replacement.
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 In case of the Pipe Slice ® the head attached to the pulling cable have blades on it. Same hydraulic puller and the pulling cable is used but instead of a nose the pipe slice head is consist of the pointed edge and blades on. The blades are sharp enough to slice through the old metal and plastic pipes. Same torque is applied using the Hydraulic Puller. The Pipe Slice ® head slices the old pipe in pieces the head is double then the diameter of old pipe so it forces and penetrates the slices and broken pieces in dirt which gives enough room for the new pipe to slide in. The push and pull motion of the Hydraulic Puller keeps on pulling the Pipe Slice® head and the new pipe which is attached to the Pipe Slice ® head keeps on sliding until it reaches to the destination hole. The replacement pipe used is either soft copper type K or flexible SDR pipe because these kind of pipes can make any turn very easily and don't break. They are strong and very durable. Then the connections are made on both ends one with the water meter and other with the inlet going in the house. |
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| Contact Your Local Mr Drain ® Plumbing of Westlake Village today to learn more about Pipe Piercing and Pipe
Slice process for replacement of Water Lines with a very minimum yard damage.
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| Save time save money call Mr Drain ® Plumbing of Westlake Village today at |
| 818 - 475 - 0714 |
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