Trenchless Technology, Keeping History Safe

Associated Products Services, Inc.

Associated Products Services, Inc., of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania recently completed a project of historical proportions in Hanover, PA. On November 18th, the company repaired a 96 foot damaged line that ran directly beneath the Center Square Picket Monument, symbolizing the “Battle of Hanover,” dated June 30, 1863. As you can see from the photos, it’s a huge and impressive statue.

Kaiser-Battistone Plumber-Rooter

Plumber-Rooter (a division of Kaiser-Battistone: Norwalk, CT) recently completed this lateral lining project.

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The job, located in Fairfield, CT, involved a small cement bridge that went over a creek in a driveway. The pipe in the bridge was dislocated, and to complicate things further, the pipe was built into the bridge. Other contractors would have had to demolish the bridge to replace the pipe, an option that many would choose. The cost to rebuild the bridge would have been prohibitively expensive.

Relines 35-40 Year Old Sewage Ejector

SGV Underground

svc Our Spotlight Project West involves a sewage sump relining at a Washington Mutual Bank in Santa Ana, California. This story comes to us from SGV Underground, a company located in the foothills of California. A 35-40 year old steel sump (sewage ejector) pit liner was rotten, perforated, and contained heavy rust/corrosion throughout. A poured-in place solution would have cost approximately $30,000, not including pump work, etc. The project was completed in a timely and efficient manner.

On Friday night, the pump contractor, hired by the prime contractor, removed pumps following the bank closing. On Saturday (Day 1), our team performed a confined space entry into the sump, and using manual and electric grinding equipment, we removed all of the surface corrosion. Furthermore, a hydrojetter was used to prep the surface.

Advantage Plumbing

Curing a Sick Pipe and Taking Advantage

A telephone call came in to Kevin McAlexander, owner of Advantage Plumbing in Grinnell, Iowa. It seemed that HydroKlean in Des Moines faced a challenge at a local hospital that went beyond the scope of its capabilities. HydroKlean employees knew there was an issue with an 8-inch sewer pipe that ran underneath Skiff Medical Center in Newton, Iowa, but they couldn’t put their finger on it. They got the line open by jetting it, but when they tried to televise the line with a crawler camera, the crawler was too big to negotiate the turns. A push camera also didn’t help.

Advantage Plumbing cleaned the line and set up the cameras to discover a joint that had moved and was pulling apart a little bit. “As a result of this, part of the rubber coupling that held the cast iron pipe together had puckered up about an inch and a half through a hole in the bottom of the pipe. This not only caused an obstruction, but was allowing sand to enter the pipe,” says McAlexander.

Trenchless Technology, Keeping History Safe

Associated Products Services, Inc.

Kaiser-Battistone Plumber-Rooter

Kaiser-Battistone Plumber-Rooter

Relines 35-40 Year Old Sewage Ejector

SGV Underground

Advantage Plumbing

Curing a Sick Pipe and Taking Advantage

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