Successful rehabilitation with smart light curing technology
Problem: A duplex in Boca Raton, Florida, had numerous sewer line backups. The 30-foot line started at 3 inches at the house and expanded to 4 inches. Adding to the challenge, the home had a beautifully landscaped garden where digging was not an option. The solution also had to be completely sealed as there were numerous ficus plants, which are known to be aggressive in seeking food and water.
Solution: The homeowner called L&G Plumbing, who had had recently acquired a BRAWO Pico sx so it was able to line 3- to 4-inch lines with BRAWOLINER 3D DN70-100 and cure the resin using LED technology, reducing the homeowner’s downtime.
Result: After cleaning and installing the new liner, the pipe was back up and running, with no damage to the garden and the pipes sealed up against even the most aggressive plants. 240-796-5007; www.brawosystems.com
Preserving homeowners’ landscapes with no-dig pipe repair
Problem: A Midwestern residential plumber faced a common but frustrating issue: a homeowner’s damaged pipe, located beneath a beautifully landscaped garden, needed urgent repair. Traditional methods would have required digging up the yard, destroying the carefully curated landscape and leaving the homeowner with costly restoration work after the repair.
Solution: To avoid excavation, the plumber used Drain Rehab Solutions’ advanced Cured-In-Place Pipe system. This technology allowed the pipe to be repaired without disturbing the surface. The process was simple yet effective. A flexible liner, coated with epoxy resin, was inserted into the damaged pipe using existing access points. Once in place, the liner was expanded and hardened using advanced UV curing technology, forming a durable new pipe within the old one. The repair was completed in only a few hours without digging or damage to the garden.
Result: The homeowner was delighted to find their yard completely intact, with no signs of repair work disrupting their landscape. The plumber completed the job efficiently, saving time and sparing the homeowner the additional expense of restoring their garden. 514-379-3544; www.drainrehabsolutions.com
Custom CIPP liner solves rooftop drainage failures at casino
Problem: A major casino in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was facing serious drainage issues from cracked cast iron roof drains located beneath the flanges. During rainfall, water leaked through the valet parking canopy, causing electrical malfunctions and stucco damage. With no easy access for traditional repair methods and a hard deadline before reopening to the public, the property required a fast, trenchless solution.
Solution: Aloha Plumbing & Drain Services was called in to handle the complex repair. Leveraging Internal Pipe Technologies’ fast-cure epoxy and a custom 6 1/2- to 6-inch transition liner, the team worked through existing roof access points to line the problematic sections. Two 22-foot liners were installed with precision, sealing the deteriorated sections of cast iron without demolition or disruption to the building’s structure. The quick set time of the epoxy allowed the team to complete the full restoration on a tight timeline.
Result: The drainage system was successfully rehabilitated before the casino reopened, eliminating the canopy leaks and preventing further structural or electrical damage. The project highlighted Aloha Plumbing’s technical expertise and reliability under pressure, and demonstrated how IPT’s trenchless lining solutions can deliver fast, long-term repairs — even in high-stakes commercial environments. 888-478-6649; www.internalpipetech.com
Using a recycler combination unit in a large-diameter pipe
Problem: A Southwest municipality was in the planning stages of replacing a 52-year-old, 568-foot, 36-inch trunk line that fed the city wastewater treatment plant due to the need for more capacity. The city had been unable to clean this pipe with traditional methods due to heavy contamination of debris and grease.
Solution: The Kaiser Premier AquaStar was utilized on this line to demonstrate the recycler’s ability to operate without running out of cleaning water. The AquaStar worked the line nonstop for five hours utilizing a step-clean method every 50 feet, successfully cleaning 450 feet of pipe. The recycler processed over 22,000 gallons of recycled fluid for cleaning with only a single 700-gallon freshwater fill-up. The end-of-day offload was approximately 8 yards of decanted, compacted material from the bottom of the pipe. As an unforeseen benefit, every time the floor cleaner nozzle broke into new material there would be a release of hydrogen sulfide gas. This sparked a revelation by the municipality that the $750,000 annual spent on product for chemical mitigation of hydrogen sulfide could be reduced by investing in an AquaStar due to its ability to stay on task for extended periods and clean all the material out of the pipe.
Result: The municipality was finally able to clean this difficult pipe instead of the costly replacement of the trunk line and reduce the cost and use of chemicals. 970-542-1975; www.kaiserpremier.com
