Sewer Pipe Relining in Portobello

Why Portobello keeps us busy

Every working week we are somewhere in Portobello, often within a short walk of Portobello Promenade and Joppa. The building stock here has its own character, and the ground beneath it has its own habits. Knowing both is the difference between a fix that lasts and a repair you have to revisit.

Portobello's terraces back onto soft sand and the old railway alignment. Where surface water and sandy subsoils meet aged Victorian drains, washouts and minor settlement crop up regularly.

Sewer Pipe Relining done properly

A CCTV survey has flagged root ingress, a fracture or a partial collapse, and the pipe runs under a finished floor or a stone-paved garden. Excavation means lifting flagstones, cutting through screed, disposing of contaminated spoil, then reinstating everything. Costs run away quickly, and the property is out of action for days.

Reline it. A resin-soaked liner is inverted into the host pipe, cured in place under pressure, and trimmed at each end. The pipe is back in service the same day, with a smooth bore and no joints for roots to find.

Three things Portobello owners get from us

• Local context. We know which streets in Portobello sit on made ground, which ones drain badly, and which ones have a tree problem. The first visit reflects that.
• Engineer-signed work. Every scheme we put in is signed off by a chartered structural engineer before any tools come out of the van.
• Reports your insurer recognises. Cause, scheme, photographs, costs. The format the loss adjusters in this city already know.