Relining a sewer pipe

mad m

Had a bad choke couple of weeks back. Took me over an hour to clear it, blame the bloody loo paper that doesn't dissolve as easy as others. Anyway I suspected something was wrong with sewer pipe as my rods kept hitting something hard or rods didn't move easily as they should , so got a loan of inspection camera and low and behold a section of my main sewer (small section) was broke in a good few places.

I've seen online you can get contractor out to reline pipe with a sleeve in epoxy resin and it's a permanent fix. Anyone any experience in this? Plus will it last as long as they are saying it will last, 50 years etc.

Edit: digging up is the last option as I've an extension over my main sewer, I remember as part of planning over sewer pipe had to be reinforced etc. sewer pipe is clay earthware

mad m

Well went a head and got it done, had no choice. Didn't want a dig up. Very happy with it. Before and after pics

Bullocks

Interesting job, was it dear ? Does it bring down the diameter of the pipe much

mad m

The first initial price was 550 euro plus vat for around a 2ft section patch repair, but if you look at first picture there was a fracture up top the contractor wasn't happy about and instead wanted to put in 1.4 meter patch. He did me a deal on it and came to 1135 vat included. The liner they put in is a fiber glass mesh soaked in two pack epoxy resin, this goes over a tube that when in position they inflate it and leave in place for 1hr 30mins until it cures, then deflate tube and your left with a pipe within a pipe . Afaik the fiber glass mesh is fairly thin and is practically seamless.

In my case also if you look at first picture on left handside there is a disused outlet, this is where rats were coming up pipe a couple of years back and gained entry to old section of my house. In turn I cut off their access point into old part of house but up until now I knew they were still getting access under new floor. God knows what damage they have done in last 7 years under there. Great peace of mind to know they can't get up under new floor now.

I found them to be very good and knowledgable. I got a 2nd price from another contractor and they wanted over 1800 euro for only 1meter repair patch .

Johnnyhpipe

Have specified this on many occasions and has been a very economical and fantastic solution.

Looks great in your after pic! Money very well spent.

mad m

@Johnny,

Absolutely money well spent. To dig up kitchen floor plus getting through solid concrete to get to old pipe would of been a nightmare and with all the banging who knows what other damage it would of caused.

As I said before had problem with rats about 9 months after extension. We had an old Buchan trap which we were still using when new floor was layed over it, it was sealed off but the outlets to it weren't so when it dried up the rats had a run right up to old part of house and dug there way in under new 4inch wavin for down stairs loo. I opened up that part of floor as it was a tassel wall part of house and did a bit of shuttering and poured in concrete and glass mix to stop them getting into house. It was a nightmare at time. If I'd of know about this patch repair then it would of saved a lot of hassle.

893bet

I can't see that stopping rats!

mad m

893bet wrote: »

I can't see that stopping rats!

You just stick to Omega's . It's as hard as wavin when it sets. There is always rats in sewers, but at least they will keep going past now as they wont have another hole to explore because it's covered now.

Metric Tensor

Great pics. Thanks for the update!