When Chicago building owners think about their plumbing systems, they tend to think about their potable water lines and the drain lines leading from their sinks, showers, bathtubs and floor drains. Left out of the equation are the vertical rain drains. Here at Nu Flow of Chicago, we want you to feel confident in the durability and longevity of all your plumbing pipes, including your vertical roof drains. This is why we offer inner pipe lining services for all types of potable water lines and drain lines, including vertical stacks.
Did you know there was a way to repair and restore your old copper water lines without completely replacing them? The solution is an internal epoxy coating, which is a thick fluid that coats and seals water pipes to stop leaks and prevent future leaks.
Lining the insides of your plumbing pipes is a great way to stop leaks and prevent the corrosion that shortens the life of your Chicago building's plumbing pipes. However, before installation can begin, a detailed plumbing inspection of your plumbing pipes must be performed. This inspection is designed to help you make the critical line/don't line decision.
When is the last time you priced drywall repair costs for your multi-story, residential high-rise in Chicago? If you haven’t you may be in for a shock. Many property managers, superintendents and condo and co-op board members often feel sticker shock when they start the process of assembling drywall bids after getting their pipe replacement bids. This is because the cost of installing and repairing drywall after a total pipe replacement can be more than the cost of the plumbing system replacement.
When it comes to correctly repairing your plumbing probems and determining if epoxy pipe lining or epoxy coatings would help restore your potable water and drain lines, the best way to start the process is by performing a camera inspection. Camera inspections allow plumbers to view the insides of the plumbing pipes in your Chicago multi-unit residential building and locate those problems before any of your fixtures and finishes are damaged, which can reduce the cost of the repair or pipe restoration and decrease the time it takes to repair the issue.
When it comes to restoring plumbing pipes and drain lines, sometimes versatility and creativity are needed in order to develop a solution. Recently, we were asked by US Cellular if we could line their p – traps as well as their floor drains. The answer was complex. We can line p - traps, but the pipe liners we use do not bend well, and they don’t adhere well to tight bends in plumbing pipes. However, since they asked, we decided to develop an innovative epoxy liner solution.
As a home owner or Chicago building property manager, you are probably aware that all the plumbing pipes in your building were installed at the same time. While exact expected useful lives are determined by use, pipe material and installation techniques, when one section of your plumbing system starts to fail, the rest isn’t far behind. In order to avoid costly plumbing repairs in 2017, you may want to make trenchless pipe lining one of your building’s New Years resolutions.
When it comes to trenchlessly repairing your drain lines or vent stacks with Pull-in-Place or Cure-in-Place pipe liners, proper pipe preparation, liner preparation and installation procedures are essential in order to prevent a pipe lining failure. In fact, one of the most important parts of the job is choosing and installing the correct size of liner. This means taking precise measures of the inside diameters of your pipes and choosing a liner that will fit snugly against the inside pipe without being too narrow or too wide.
Does your Chicago multi-family residential building have a waterbug problem in spite of regular pest control treatments? If you answered yes to this question, you may have cracked vent and/or drain pipes that are allowing waterbugs in plumbing pipes to enter your apartment building, condo or co-op.
When you think about the Chicago White Sox and seeing a home game at US Cellular Field, you probably dream about eating hotdogs, giant pretzels and French fries while drinking massive glasses of soda pop and beer. Unfortunately, all that soda and grease has taken a toll on US Cellular Field’s drain pipes, leading to severe corrosion, and we have recently been commissioned to reline 100 feet of their stadium floor drain pipes.