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This is not news. Having to rebore pipes due to tree roots has been around for decades
by abstractspoon 1y ago
This is not news. Having to rebore pipes due to tree roots has been around for decades
- alehlopeh 1y agoDecades? Try millennia.
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- metalman 1y agothere is a new to me datum in that trees along residential streets are experiencing less water stress than trees in parks, due to city water leakage that was demonstrated by doing core samples on the trees to show how lead isotopes differed in the two populations of trees. it highlights a growing concern with water in general and how carefull water monitering and management is becoming, and how what was primarily interesting to civil engineering types, has a wider audience
- KritVutGu 1y ago[dead]
- pessimizer 1y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rebore#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rebore#English They mean clearing tree roots out of the pipes, and patching them.
- bombcar 1y agoOr the modern method of inflating a new pipe inside the old pipe, bursting the old pipe
- abhiyerra 1y agoHeh. Yesterday, we had a plumber over who told us we have to rebore our sewage pipes because roots got in. It is an old house with cast iron pipes and they still got in.
- bombcar 1y agoCast Iron’s worse than plastic because they always leak a tiny bit and that means that the roots can “smell” the water and go for it. Plastic either is impervious or completely fucked.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoI get tree root intrusion where my newish plastic sewer main joins the street sewer.
- bombcar 1y agoYeah joints are always the problem. Which is why you want the joints to be someone else’s problem.
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoI've never heard it called "reboring" - wonder if there is a different procedure for when it gets really bad, but I'd have thought problems (backup) would happen pretty quickly, so wouldn't be too bad as long as you take care of it. They basically use something like a weed whacker fed down the pipe, except it uses a short bit of chain instead of trimmer line, and will pulverise any intruding roots.
- peterbecich 1y agoThere are at least two techniques: sewer rooting (low velocity and high torque) and sewer de-scaling (opposite).