Sewer pipe line repair in Texas

Texas is slab-foundation country, and the cast iron drain lines under slabs built through the 1970s have corroded from the inside out. Expansive clays move the slab and the pipe with it; lining the line from inside avoids tunneling or breaking concrete to get at it.

What fails under Texas homes

Across the Plains and Texas, older neighborhoods have clay and cast iron laterals, and a surprising amount of Orangeburg pipe went in during the postwar building boom. Slab foundations are common in the south of the region, with cast iron drain lines underneath them.

Expansive clay soils that swell when wet and shrink hard in drought are the main enemy of sewer pipe here; they open joints, create bellies, and crack cast iron. Hot summers drive tree roots deep toward the moisture in a sewer line.

Trenchless methods restore the line without opening a slab or a yard that will move again next season, and a bursted line in new HDPE tolerates soil movement far better than jointed clay.

Who covers Texas

Texas metro pages

These pages carry the local number and the installer for the metro.

• Sewer pipe lining in Houston, TX
• Sewer pipe lining in San Antonio, TX

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