Trenchless methods
Pipe Bursting in Louisville
A bursting head splits the old pipe while pulling new HDPE pipe in behind it, through two small pits.
How pipe bursting works
A steel cable is threaded through the old sewer line from a pit at one end to a pit at the other. A cone-shaped bursting head, with new high-density polyethylene pipe fused to it, is pulled through by a hydraulic unit. The head splits the old clay or cast iron outward into the soil and the new pipe follows in the same alignment at the same depth. The result is a single fused length of pipe with no joints for roots to find.
When bursting is the right call
- Collapsed sections — a liner needs a host pipe to hold its shape; a collapsed run has none.
- Bellies — a low spot that holds water stays a low spot after lining. Bursting lays new pipe on a fresh bed.
- Undersized lines — bursting can upsize a 3-inch lateral to 4 inches; lining slightly reduces diameter.
- Badly deformed pipe — Orangeburg that has flattened, or cast iron with most of its bottom gone.
What the job looks like
One pit at the house or cleanout, one at the property line or the street connection, each a few feet square. Utilities that cross within a foot or two of the sewer path are located and potholed first. The pull takes an hour or two; the whole job, including fusing, connections, inspection and backfill, is usually one day.
Permits and the street
If the downstream pit is in the sidewalk, parkway or street, a right-of-way permit and restoration to city standards are required in addition to the plumbing permit. If the connection at the main is replaced, the city inspects it before the pit closes. Confirm who is handling this before work starts.
Estimates are free. Call now: (877) 880-8125.
Pipe Bursting by city in Jefferson County
Local conditions, the ZIP codes covered and how to reach the contractor for each city.
- Pipe Bursting Louisville
- Pipe Bursting Anchorage
- Pipe Bursting Audubon Park
- Pipe Bursting Bancroft
- Pipe Bursting Barbourmeade
- Pipe Bursting Beechwood Village
- Pipe Bursting Bellemeade
- Pipe Bursting Bellewood
- Pipe Bursting Blue Ridge Manor
- Pipe Bursting Briarwood
- Pipe Bursting Broad Fields
- Pipe Bursting Broeck Pointe
- Pipe Bursting Brownsboro Farm
- Pipe Bursting Brownsboro Village
- Pipe Bursting Buechel
- Pipe Bursting Cambridge
- Pipe Bursting Cherrywood Village
- Pipe Bursting Coldstream
- Pipe Bursting Creekside
- Pipe Bursting Crossgate
- Pipe Bursting Douglass Hills
- Pipe Bursting Druid Hills
- Pipe Bursting Fairdale
- Pipe Bursting Fairmeade
- Pipe Bursting Fern Creek
- Pipe Bursting Fincastle
- Pipe Bursting Fisherville
- Pipe Bursting Forest Hills
- Pipe Bursting Glenview Hills
- Pipe Bursting Glenview Manor
- Pipe Bursting Glenview
- Pipe Bursting Goose Creek
- Pipe Bursting Graymoor-Devondale
- Pipe Bursting Green Spring
- Pipe Bursting Heritage Creek
- Pipe Bursting Hickory Hill
- Pipe Bursting Highview
- Pipe Bursting Hills and Dales
- Pipe Bursting Hollow Creek
- Pipe Bursting Hollyvilla
- Pipe Bursting Houston Acres
- Pipe Bursting Hurstbourne Acres
- Pipe Bursting Hurstbourne
- Pipe Bursting Indian Hills
- Pipe Bursting Jeffersontown
- Pipe Bursting Keeneland
- Pipe Bursting Kingsley
- Pipe Bursting Langdon Place
- Pipe Bursting Lincolnshire
- Pipe Bursting Lyndon
- Pipe Bursting Lynnview
- Pipe Bursting Manor Creek
- Pipe Bursting Maryhill Estates
- Pipe Bursting Meadow Vale
- Pipe Bursting Meadowbrook Farm
- Pipe Bursting Meadowview Estates
- Pipe Bursting Middletown
- Pipe Bursting Mockingbird Valley
- Pipe Bursting Moorland
- Pipe Bursting Murray Hill
- Pipe Bursting Newburg
- Pipe Bursting Norbourne Estates
- Pipe Bursting Northfield
- Pipe Bursting Norwood
- Pipe Bursting Okolona
- Pipe Bursting Old Brownsboro Place
- Pipe Bursting Parkway Village
- Pipe Bursting Penile
- Pipe Bursting Plantation
- Pipe Bursting Pleasure Ridge Park
- Pipe Bursting Plymouth Village
- Pipe Bursting Poplar Hills
- Pipe Bursting Prospect
- Pipe Bursting Richlawn
- Pipe Bursting Riverwood
- Pipe Bursting Rolling Fields
- Pipe Bursting Rolling Hills
- Pipe Bursting Seneca Gardens
- Pipe Bursting Shively
- Pipe Bursting South Park View
- Pipe Bursting Spring Mill
- Pipe Bursting Spring Valley
- Pipe Bursting Springlee
- Pipe Bursting St. Dennis
- Pipe Bursting St. Matthews
- Pipe Bursting St. Regis Park
- Pipe Bursting Strathmoor Manor
- Pipe Bursting Strathmoor Village
- Pipe Bursting Sycamore
- Pipe Bursting Ten Broeck
- Pipe Bursting Thornhill
- Pipe Bursting Valley Station
- Pipe Bursting Watterson Park
- Pipe Bursting Wellington
- Pipe Bursting West Buechel
- Pipe Bursting Westwood
- Pipe Bursting Whipps Millgate
- Pipe Bursting Wildwood
- Pipe Bursting Windy Hills
- Pipe Bursting Woodland Hills
- Pipe Bursting Woodlawn Park
- Pipe Bursting Worthington Hills