A small, high-tech machine uses the access point to install a continuous, one-piece, hard plastic PVC pipe into the existing sewer pipeline. As it is being pushed, pulled, or blown through the new pipe bursts the old ones apart in an outward motion. The pieces of the old sewer pipeline are disbursed into the ground where they are left to naturally rot away. Once the process is complete the new plastic PVC pipe completely takes the place of the old, broken sewer pipeline. The entire process can be completed in as little as one day from start to finish.
That is no time at all compared to the old school excavation method. By the time the trench is dug, the old sewer pipes are physically removed, the new pipeline is installed, and the trench is filled back in with dirt it can take multiple weeks. Not to mention that repairing or replacing the landscaping and hardscaping that the trench destroyed takes additional time and money. Speaking of money, the trenchless pipe bursting process is approximately fifty-percent more cost effective than the traditional excavation method. The new plastic PVC pipe should last well over fifty years, up to one hundred years plus.
