Sewer Pipe Relining in Marchmont

Why Marchmont keeps us busy

Every working week we are somewhere in Marchmont, often within a short walk of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links. 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.

Marchmont's red sandstone tenements are tall, heavy and largely well-founded, but blocked common drains in the back greens cause more underpinning calls than the buildings themselves. Drainage CCTV is almost always step one here.

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 Marchmont owners get from us

• Local context. We know which streets in Marchmont 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.