A Calgary based Cured in Place Pipe (CIPP) lining contractor installed a residential liner in an older home’s sewer main. The contractor conducted a camera inspection of the sewer system prior to installing the liner, however they didn’t notice that there was a branch connection in the sewer main. About a day after the liner…
DetailsA Calgary lining contractor that uses the inversion method of Cured in Place Pipe (CIPP) lining overshot a residential liner, causing their new liner to partially block of the City of Calgary sewer main in the street. As with most inversion lining contractors, this contractor also cut out the floor and made a pit in…
DetailsA lining contractor had a contract with a Western Canadian city to install liners in several residential service laterals. Unfortunately, the contractor couldn’t get a liner to expand properly prior to curing it and the sewage flow from a home was completely blocked off. The lining contractor didn’t have any trenchless means to fix the…
DetailsThe corporate head office for a utility company experienced a backup of the main sewer from their facility. A video inspection of the pipe revealed that it was caused by a displaced gasket in the PVC plastic sewer pipe. The failed joint was in an area of the campus that was very difficult to access…
DetailsOne of the tallest Class A office towers in Calgary had a brand new roof installed. After the installation was completed, a couple of roof drains started to leak into the ceiling space of the offices on the top floor. An engineering firm was engaged to present the client with options to repair the leaking…
DetailsA plus 15 walkway in downtown Calgary was flooding every time it rained. The cast iron rainwater pipes in the ceiling had cracked in several places, so when the pipes filled with water, it would flow heavily out of the cracks in the pipe. The water was damaging the ceilings and causing a slippery hazard…
DetailsA large residential complex was experiencing frequent backups with their sewers. The facility maintenance staff identified the cause of the issue as corrosion buildup in the cast iron pipes inside of the facility and wanted Revive Pipes to install a liner to fix the problem for good. The large facility had a complex sewer configuration…
DetailsA building on the University of Calgary campus was having a problem with their ground water sump pump. Every time the sump pump kicked in, a deluge of water would come back into the mechanical room through the discharge pipe penetration in the foundation wall of the building. Upon inspection, it was revealed that the…
DetailsA 60 year old, large commercial building experienced a sewer backup due to a blockage in their sewer main. The problem location was identified as being directly below the foundation of the building. At the foundation of the building, the cast iron sewer pipe in the building transitioned to clay tile sewer pipe outside of…
DetailsA seven (7) story residential complex experienced several incidents of nasty flooding and raw sewage contamination due the corrosion cracking of four (4) sanitary drain stacks over only a couple of years. Revive Pipes installed Cured in Place Pipe (CIPP) structural liners in three (3) remaining sanitary sewer stacks saving the building and its tenants…
DetailsA senior care facility was on the verge of an emergency excavation to relieve a blockage causing backups in the facilities kitchen. The facility was literally within hours of a major excavation ten (10) feet below the floor inside of the facility that would have shut the kitchen down for a couple of weeks. Revive…
DetailsA large commercial building was experiencing sewer backups in their materials receiving bay and mechanical room. Revive Pipes saved the facility over $100,000 and the major disruption of having to dig twelve (12) feet deep under the concrete slab and hot water boiler in the boiler room to replace the sewer pipe. The sewer drain…
DetailsA school’s mechanical room had several floor drains that became separated from the P-Traps in the sewer drain line. Revive Pipes installed structural liners to span the gap in the floor drains and prevent water from flowing under the concrete slab floor and degrading the building foundation and bedding for the sewer drain pipe. The…
DetailsOne of Calgary’s tallest office towers had the flat, roof parapets replaced. After the parapets were replaced, water was discovered leaking into premium tenant spaces. Revive Pipes installed Cured in Place Pipe (CIPP) structural liners in all of the roof drains in the replaced roofs, stopping all of the water leaks into the tenant space.…
DetailsA large power generation facility in Calgary, Alberta experienced leaks due to corrosion in the leak detection sample line for one of the underground contaminated fluid containment tanks that was below a twelve (12) inch thick structural concrete slab. Revive Pipes saved the facility over $50,000 when we removed tuberculation buildup and installed a Cured…
DetailsAn Alberta government building was faced with having to close down its antique, manual elevator when a vitrified clay (VCP) sewer drain pipe that was partially embedded in the elevators foundation cracked. The high cost of the sewer pipe repair while keeping the elevator foundation intact was too much for the facility to justify keeping…
DetailsA large commercial building was experiencing sewer backups in their materials receiving bay and mechanical room. Revive Pipes saved the facility over $100,000 and the major disruption of having to dig twelve (12) feet deep under the concrete slab and hot water boiler in the boiler room to replace the sewer pipe. The sewer drain…
DetailsA classroom in a school became a poor learning environment when nasty sewer gases began to permeate the room due to a broken fitting and offset joint below the floor. The pipe was prohibitively expensive to fix because of its location 4 feet below the floor next to the building foundation. Revive Pipes saved the…
DetailsAn international distiller’s blending room drains were completely eaten away and collapsed in many sections. The blending room housed 40 alcohol tanks that were 100,000 litres in size. The tanks are supported by a 12 inch thick structural slab throughout the blending room. During production, the blending room is a Class 1, Div 1 Explosive…
DetailsA City of Calgary’s outdoor swimming pool had some water left in pool lines over the winter, causing the pipes to crack. After a Cured in Place Pipe (CIPP) inversion lining contractor attempted to fix the problems and dug several holes in the pool deck without fixing the problems, Revive Pipes was called. Revive Pipes…
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