Tag: Plumbing repairs

Hydro-Jetting Keeps Your Sewer Line Open

hydro jetting

Hydro jetting is one of the most efficient ways of doing preventive maintenance to your personal sewer line, the hydro jet uses a high pressure water that could reach up to 4000 PSI. This high pressure water has an attachment on the front of the equipment that has strategic aim and makes sure that the walls of the sewer line are cleared of all debris, and once the wall is cleared of all its debris,  the attachment also has a water distribution in the front which pushes everything that falls from the walls of the pipe forward to the main sewer line which ensures that you have a more free-flowing experience. Hydro jetting also remove root intrusion inside the piping.

A lot of people don’t realize that once a pipe has been inside the ground for so many years it is dried out of its moisture and things begin to go wrong, hence we have root intrusion. To educate you, roots only want water and nutrients, if they could find it they will follow any type of source or opening that is available. And when you have dried out pipes brittle and worn down they will leak the sewage water into the soil and the trees can smell that water and waste. Watch the trees smell that water touching the dirt Underground they send the roots to the broken source to gather as much water as possible. The Roots find the break in the pipe, it enters the pipe by growing stage-by-stage, and once it is inside the pipe it gets stronger and stronger and stronger. And the stronger it gets the bigger it gets the more obstruction that would be in the pipe, this would cause a blockage for sure once it reaches a certain Mass. The photo that you see attached to this post is a commercial grade sewer line and this is one type of buildup, as you can see there has to be a combination of grease, dirt ,film and Etc… Preventive Maintenance is the way to go.

Repipe Your Home With Pex Pipe

Best Thing For Your Home
Repiping your home could be the one best thing you could do to it. You know that once repiped, everything is brand new and you are bypassing old mistakes, old leaks, water damage and future slab leaks. You will instantly have better water pressure to your home, and also cleaner water to your home. We recommend Aqua-pex pipe, which doesn’t cause corrosion, cheaper than copper and you get more time for your money.

Repipe Your Home With Pex Pipe
Pex Pipe Advantages
PEX (or crosslinked polyethylene) was introduced in the US around 1980 and is often seen in radiant heat flooring applications, but has now become commonplace for repiping and plumbing repairs.

PEX popularity can be attributed to many factors, includingcost, flexibility, resistance to scale and chlorine, and fast installation with fewer connections and fittings. PEX is also more efficient as it doesn’t lose heat like a copper pipe will. Although PEX is not suitable for use outside, it is much more resistant to freezing temperatures and bursting.

Pex is color coded based on water temperature (red is hot, blue is cold, white is any) which is a handy feature.

Installing Pex Tubing can be done with cinch or crimp rings and a cinch clamp tool or compression or stab-in fittings, either technique is easier and less toxic than sweating copper. Another thing to consider when making the ultimate decision is during a Earth Shift/Earthquake the Pex pipe will move without damage more than copper will. If copper moves in the exact same way as above there would be a leak if not a flood immediately. Pex is definetly the future.

What is PEX pipe made of?
Almost all PEX used for pipe and tubing is made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). PEX contains cross-linked bonds in the polymer structure, changing the thermoplastic to a thermoset. Cross-linking is accomplished during or after the extrusion of the tubing.