Water Line Inspection
Your home's water line runs from the city's water main, under your yard and your home's foundation, and then disperses into a pipe system through your home. While it's common to get leaks in the pipes underneath your sink and behind your walls, major points of damage often happen underneath your home and yard–and they're much more difficult to resolve than the others. If you suspect you have a damaged water line, that's when you'll call us.
Signs such as low water pressure, mouldy smells, water spots, and rising utility bills indicate you have a crack or burst pipe, but how can we tell which area is affected if we can't physically see it? That's where our thorough water line inspection comes in. Using cutting-edge technology, we can properly locate the area of damage and proceed with the right resolution.
To get a good look at your pipes, our technicians will insert a high-definition video camera down into your pipes. Recording the footage as it snakes through your water line, we will be able to spot the type of damage and its location. If we do not find anything with our camera, but still suspect a leaky pipe, we'll use other leak detection equipment such as infrared technology to locate all possible sources of leaks.
In many cases, a full pipe replacement isn't necessary, and we'll recommend a swift water line repair process instead, such as trenchless pipe relining. In the event that you have a broken water line that cannot be repaired by trenchless pipe relining, trenchless water line replacement is the next best option.
Trenchless Water Line Replacement
Traditional pipe replacement requires the excavation of your backyard or jackhammering the concrete slab to reveal your water line. This, of course, depends on the location of your pipe damage, but as you can imagine, it's an incredibly invasive process that takes more than a few hours to complete and more like a few days. One of the many benefits of trenchless water line replacement in Vancouver is that the process can usually be completed in a single day, given that we do not run into any major issues.
How exactly does it work? Also called pipe bursting, trenchless water line replacement bursts apart the affected section of pipe in your underground water line. Only two small holes will need to be dug, one to feed the hydraulic device into your old pipe while it drags in the new pipe, and the other for the device to exit from. As the device makes its way through your old pipe, it will burst it apart, creating space for the new pipe to slide into place. After the pipe has been replaced, we'll backfill the two small holes and clean up our mess.