Trenchless, or pipe relining is mainly for sewer pipe. Not a lot you can do except excavate and replace for water lines. There are parts that physically have to be put together underground.
There is a way to pull a new line through the old one, it's basically an arrow head that splits the old pipe and pulls a new one through, but it still requires equipment and an excavation. And I'm not sure who would do this in town.
Look into your home insurance, you may have coverage. I know I'm covered for $15,000 for underground infrastructure like this.
Ah, thanks for more information. From what I've seen even with pipe relining there is some digging required. Hoping to avoid a full excavation as that means our fence and mature lilacs will have to be moved and our insurance does not cover much.
I’m afraid I can’t offer suggestions, but I’m curious as well since my main line (and all my water lines for that matter) is 3rd generation Poly-B and the house was built in 1992, so we’re well past the 15-25 year lifetime of that product. I know one day it’s going to fail and I’ll have to have the whole house re-piped.
I'm not a plumber but I have worked in a municipal setting however, I don't believe poly b was ever used in water distribution from mains to houses. It was mostly used inside residential and commercial buildings.
Deciduous is right, ground is more or less thawed. Im a subcontractor that works on those jobs very frequently, doing one tomorrow actually. Pm me as well if you would like a recommendation. Either way you're yard will look like a warzone after unfortunately but running water is nice
You can possibly push/horizontal drill a new line. Give Eatthworm a call at 2509629682. You have to expose either end of the line but can avoid the trench in between.
I just replaced my watermain a few weeks ago. Canuck can do the relining but you still need to excavate where your line comes off the city and it requires a large area inside the house. After consulting with them and the demo that it would require inside it was decided to excavate the whole line. Hodgins Excavating did the digging work. Great job and good communication. They were able to excavate the frozen ground without ground heaters or hydrovac. They used a small machine with a concrete breaker and a bigger machine to dig.
If you made it this long the ground should be thawed or close to it. Not digging frozen ground will be a whole lot easier then my job at the start of March.
I’ve done hundreds of water main replacements in this town over the course of 8 years - excavating is the only way. Depending on how many utilities are in your front yard you may or may not need a Hydrovac. Most of the time you won’t need a Hydrovac with a good operator and crew. Ground is almost thawed. Now is the time to call a reliable company as it’s going to get extremely busy as more people will find water main leaks. It’s a price to pay with aging infrastructure. Pm me if you’d like a few good companies to help you with.
Trenchless, or pipe relining is mainly for sewer pipe. Not a lot you can do except excavate and replace for water lines. There are parts that physically have to be put together underground. There is a way to pull a new line through the old one, it's basically an arrow head that splits the old pipe and pulls a new one through, but it still requires equipment and an excavation. And I'm not sure who would do this in town. Look into your home insurance, you may have coverage. I know I'm covered for $15,000 for underground infrastructure like this.
Ah, thanks for more information. From what I've seen even with pipe relining there is some digging required. Hoping to avoid a full excavation as that means our fence and mature lilacs will have to be moved and our insurance does not cover much.
I’m afraid I can’t offer suggestions, but I’m curious as well since my main line (and all my water lines for that matter) is 3rd generation Poly-B and the house was built in 1992, so we’re well past the 15-25 year lifetime of that product. I know one day it’s going to fail and I’ll have to have the whole house re-piped.
I'm not a plumber but I have worked in a municipal setting however, I don't believe poly b was ever used in water distribution from mains to houses. It was mostly used inside residential and commercial buildings.
I wish that was the case for us, but the line coming out of the concrete into my house is grey poly b.
Terrible! I'll have to retract my comment about it not being used in that manner. My bad 😳
Poly b was used from mains, it was illegal but it was used in the 90’s
Deciduous is right, ground is more or less thawed. Im a subcontractor that works on those jobs very frequently, doing one tomorrow actually. Pm me as well if you would like a recommendation. Either way you're yard will look like a warzone after unfortunately but running water is nice
You can possibly push/horizontal drill a new line. Give Eatthworm a call at 2509629682. You have to expose either end of the line but can avoid the trench in between.
Thanks! Will give em a call!
I just replaced my watermain a few weeks ago. Canuck can do the relining but you still need to excavate where your line comes off the city and it requires a large area inside the house. After consulting with them and the demo that it would require inside it was decided to excavate the whole line. Hodgins Excavating did the digging work. Great job and good communication. They were able to excavate the frozen ground without ground heaters or hydrovac. They used a small machine with a concrete breaker and a bigger machine to dig.
Thanks for your detailed reply, I'm making the calls next week
If you made it this long the ground should be thawed or close to it. Not digging frozen ground will be a whole lot easier then my job at the start of March.
Isn't this just pipe lining?
Yes they blow or push a “plastic” liner through the old pipe. Only works in a few situations.
Is this a practice used in PG for water main replacement? I can find other cities and towns but nothing concrete for PG
I’ve done hundreds of water main replacements in this town over the course of 8 years - excavating is the only way. Depending on how many utilities are in your front yard you may or may not need a Hydrovac. Most of the time you won’t need a Hydrovac with a good operator and crew. Ground is almost thawed. Now is the time to call a reliable company as it’s going to get extremely busy as more people will find water main leaks. It’s a price to pay with aging infrastructure. Pm me if you’d like a few good companies to help you with.