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Cost per Foot

“How much per foot should I charge for a job? I have a restaurant that wants me to coat 20’ of pipe and then coat a grease trap. I’m just not sure what to add for the grease trap. Should I just add it to the footage price?” While we’ve used per foot pricing as […]

Ballooning of Liner

“I keep blowing out my liner material when trying to invert it into the host pipe from the Quik Shot™. It comes out of the gun but when it hits the host pipe entrance it balloons up and ruptures. Is the problem the liner or is it something I’m doing?” I only have one question […]

How Many Liners Can Be Completed in a Day?

“I’m looking at a job that has several liners to line on a couple of city streets from the right of way to the main. The sewer mains run down the city street and the average length of each liner would be between 35’ and 40’. How many liners can I complete daily with your […]

Fixing an Emergency

“ I was inverting a liner and noticed a hole in the coating that was leaking out resin before I got the liner in the pipe. I was panicking and made a quick decision to put a piece of duct tape over the hole so it would hold air pressure and allow me to invert […]

Tip: Cast Iron Lining

If you’re lining cast iron pipe using our scrim material for CIPP laterals, we produce a slightly undersized nominal pipe diameter for cast iron applications. Be sure to specify when ordering. For more information contact Pipe Lining Supply at +1-888-354-6464 or email us at info@pipeliningsupply.com.

Tip: Pipe Diameter

Pipe diameters on laterals usually make a transition in sizes somewhere between the building and the sewer main. For CIPP projects, you can select one of two methods from a variety of liners. You can buy pre-made transition bags sewed to transition from one diameter to another in various lengths, or you can buy liner […]

Welding/Gluing Calibration Tube To Lining Materials

“We were at one of your training sessions and saw you weld a section of green calibration tube to the coating on your lining material and then invert it into the pipe. You used a flat iron to weld the two together, then inverted it to start liner after the turn of a combi. We […]

Sometimes Old School Works Better Than New

Have you ever invested in new technology to perform a job and after using it a few times it didn’t do the work better, cheaper or faster than what you were doing before? It happened to me with one of the simplest tools out there. We have a porcelain tile floor. I committed to keeping […]

Here’s Your Sign

An RV blogger and author friend, Nick Russell, writes a blog on RV’ing and this past week pointed out questions from blog readers who ask some pretty challenging questions. One guy lost his pins locking his tow vehicle to his motorhome and wrote to ask if using heavy-duty zip ties would work until he found […]

Lining In The Winter Cold

“I’ve held up my lining jobs until warmer weather but I am getting too many jobs to get them all done in the spring. What’s the rule on winter lining? Can I do it?” I understand why you are trying to put off till spring any lining jobs, but the reasons revolve around your comfort […]