Sewer and stormwater drainage systems are often taken for granted—until something goes wrong! These systems are vital for maintaining everyday comfort, sanitation and safety. Without properly functioning pipes, indoor plumbing wouldn’t exist and rainwater would have nowhere to go, flooding our streets and creating major disruptions.
That’s why it’s crucial to ensure these systems are in optimal condition at all times. The team at Emu has years of experience diagnosing and repairing sewer and stormwater systems, so we know exactly what to do when issues occur.
How to Prevent Stormwater & Sewer Drain Issues
While some issues are inevitable, regular maintenance and following a few simple rules can help reduce the risk of serious damage and costly repairs. Here are a few simple steps to keep your drains in good shape:
- Ensure that you’re only flushing toilet paper. Nothing else should ever go into your toilet – even if the kitty litter says it’s flushable, it’s not!
- Keep your drainage points clear of build-up and debris to prevent clogging in other parts of your stormwater drainage system.
- Check down-pipes and gutters for foreign objects that need to be removed. This could be building materials, stones, tennis balls, weeds or other plant matter.
- Once a year have your stormwater drainage system professionally water jetted to clear all debris and identify underlying problems.
How to Repair Stormwater & Sewer Drain Issues
Water jetting and Robotic Cutting are the most common services we use to resolve stormwater drainage issues. Both unblock and clean debris from pipes to keep your drainage running smoothly. Water jetting is our first port of call, but for tougher debris such as concrete or tree roots we need to call in the big guns – the robotic cutters.
Once those pipes are clean, we use the latest CCTV drain inspection technology to evaluate the condition of your stormwater or sewer drainage system. This gives us a clear image of issues within your pipes, including cracks or other internal damage. Armed with this information, we’ll provide a solution to repair any damage and help put a plan in place to prevent recurrences.
This process is fast, effective and saves you money, as we can quickly gather the information needed to best repair and maintain your drainage.
Pipe Relining: A Revolutionary Repair Solution
If our CCTV inspection reveals cracks or damage, pipe relining is often the best solution. This innovative method allows us to repair pipes without the need for trenching, heavy, noisy and destructive machinery, or costly downtime.
Simply put, we insert a new, incredibly strong silicate or epoxy resin-infused lining into the affected areas of the pipe. This essentially creates a new section of pipe within your existing stormwater/sewer drainage system, that repairs any identified cracks, leaks or breaches.
Should you Repair or Replace Stormwater & Sewer Drain Issues?
Once we’ve surveyed the pipes and pinpointed where the damage is, what the damage is and what has caused it, then we can know what the best option for you is. No two jobs are the same, so we’ll always make sure we know everything about your damage before giving our advice on next steps.
We’ll often recommend pipe relining when:
- Your pipes are very deep and excavation isn’t an option
- Your pipes are awkwardly positions and getting to them will cause even more damage
- The damage is somewhere that’s dangerous to access. We don’t want to be using heavy machinery to excavate on slopes, embankments or underneath walls.
We’ll recommend replacement when:
- Your drains are severely damaged. We can’t reline the inside of pipe that has lost so much structural integrity it barely looks like a pipe anymore!
- Your drains are close to the surface and easy to access.
- Your drains are surrounding by very dense roots and are so badly blocked clearing these is no longer cost effective.
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The Emu. Difference
We pride ourselves as being a leading pipe relining team in Brisbane offering our services direct to clients and also to plumbers who need to offer these services for particular jobs. Through our Relining 4 Plumbers service we can help businesses provide the best solutions to their clients without sharing them with the competition. We also offer discounts for relining works, to fellow plumbers, so they are able to quote their jobs with confidence.
We prioritise researching the best sewer and stormwater rehabilitation tools and technologies and take the time to ensure our whole team are fully trained and qualified to use them properly. Our focus is to offer our customers the best possible solutions for their stormwater and sewer drain issues. Plus, we are so confident in the quality of our work we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all services.
