Missouri
Trenchless Sewer Line Replacement in Missouri
Choose a city for what is buried under its homes, which no-dig replacement method fits, and the contractor covering it.
Missouri
Sewer lines across Missouri
The industrial-era cities of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley have some of the oldest sewer laterals still in service in the country: clay tile from before the First World War, cast iron from the building booms that followed, and Orangeburg in the postwar suburbs. Many of those laterals were combined with the storm system, which means they carry far more water than they were ever meant to.
Deep frost, heavy clay, mature maples and oaks, and basements below the water table make for root intrusion, cracked bells and infiltration. A line that runs under a hundred-year-old sidewalk and a sixty-year-old driveway has been loaded from above the whole time.
Root-bound clay with its grade intact is the classic lining job and comes out as a single smooth pipe. Crushed Orangeburg, collapsed clay and cast iron that has lost its floor are burst and replaced, often from the basement wall to the main in a single pull.
Pick a city above for the local picture, or read why replacement without a trench is usually the cheaper job once the driveway, the sidewalk and the street permit are counted.