Selecting the Best Pipe Rehabilitation Solution for Your Unique Needs

When a pipe bursts or suffers structural damage, the impact can be detrimental to local businesses, residential areas, and surrounding infrastructure. From water on the roads to shut-off electrics and closed roads and access points, navigating the damage from a burst or leaking pipe is not just a huge undertaking but also an expensive one.

Pipe rehabilitation provides a solution that repairs rather than replaces damaged pipes, allowing pipes to be brought back to full working order without the need for excavation or even uncovering the pipe’s exterior.

Comparing Pipe Rehabilitation and Replacement

When a pipe becomes damaged and unfit for purpose, there are two options: repair it or replace it.

Replacing a damaged pipe means digging it up and removing it in favour of a brand-new pipe installation. This is expensive, time consuming, requires complex and heavy machinery, and causes extensive disruption to the local community.

Rehabilitation focuses on the repair of the pipe, restoring it to full use by not only covering up the damage but making the full structure of the pipe stronger and more stable.

The art of pipe rehabilitation without the need for extensive excavation work,CIPP Pressure Pipe Lining, was born from Eric Woods and his creation more than 50 years ago – the founding principle behind the rise of Insituform. 

CIPP Pressure Pipe Lining: How it Works

CIPP liners, also known as Cured-In-Place Pipe liners, are made from a revolutionary felt embedded with resin. The resin is activated once the felt liner has been fed into the damaged pipe and sticks itself to the inside wall of the pipe to form a new layer.

This new layer of pipe enhances the strength of the pipe and creates a new, smoother lining on the inside wall – optimising flow capacity and expanding the lifespan of the pipe by several decades.

CIPP Felt advantages for pipeline rehabilitation

CIPP felt liners allow a damaged pipe to be repaired and brought back to life without breaking ground or removing the pipe, making pipe rehabilitation a prime example of trenchless technology in action.

By ensuring that pipes can be replaced in-situ, environmental damage is kept to a minimum and local infrastructure remains unaffected. This allows local businesses to continue serving and operating as normal, minimising the impact on the community.

Another benefit links directly to the materials used and the fact that pipe rehabilitation as a whole is a form of recycling. Not only do Insituform pipe liners use 75% recycled materials, but the process of manufacturing seeks to recycle 90% of the waste produced, and the art of fixing the pipe alleviates the need to produce a new one.

Opting for CIPP liners and pipe rehabilitation is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to restore pipes to full working order. With Insituform developing leading solutions which adapt to the ever changing and progressing needs of engineers and clients all over the world, explore our CIPP-Lösungen today.