Sewer and Pipe Relining Ferntree Gully

When clearing is not enough

If your sewer blocks every few months, the camera usually shows why: offset clay joints, cracks or a broken section where roots keep getting in. Jetting buys time, but roots grow back. A lasting repair seals the pipe.

Relining

After cleaning the pipe and cutting out roots, we insert a resin-soaked liner and cure it in place, forming a new seamless pipe inside the old one. Joints are sealed and roots cannot penetrate it. Relining suits Ferntree Gully's many sewers that run under driveways, decks, steps, retaining walls and established gardens, where digging would be disruptive and costly to reinstate.

Excavation

Where damage is in one or two spots in open ground, digging down and replacing the clay with PVC can be simpler. On steep sites we plan excavation carefully to protect retaining walls and slopes.

Before and after

We camera-inspect before and after so you can see the problem and the result, and we keep the footage for your records.

Why relining suits the foothills

Ferntree Gully sewers often run under established gardens, mature trees, retaining walls, paved areas and steep slopes. Digging those up is disruptive and expensive to put back. Relining lets us repair a damaged pipe from the inside, usually through an existing access point, with very little digging. The new liner seals cracks and open joints so roots cannot get back in.

What relining can and cannot do

Relining works best on pipes that are cracked, have root intrusion at the joints or have small holes, but are still in roughly the right shape and position. If a section has collapsed completely or sagged so much that water sits in it, that part may need to be dug up and replaced. We show you the camera footage and explain which method suits each section of your pipe.

How long it takes

Most residential relining jobs take a day. You will need to avoid using water for a few hours while the liner cures.

Ferntree Gully ground and pipes

Ferntree Gully's ground changes as you climb towards the ranges: clay and silty loam on the lower streets, rockier, steeper ground near Upper Ferntree Gully and The Basin. Most homes built before the 1980s were connected with earthenware sewer pipe, and on a slope every joint moves a little over the years and lets roots in. Water service lines from the meter are often long and run through rocky ground or under established gardens. Stormwater has to be carried down the block and away from the house. We use cameras, locators and pressure tests to see what is happening before we dig.

From your call to the finished job