Trouble at magners cider mill

pipe liningAfter arriving at the cider pressing mill we were a first a bit taken back by the large amount of water we was dealing with. it began as a leak into one of the waste holding pits but after pumping under pressure 80 kg of water activated expanding foam grout behind the wall, the water forced its way in to the adjacent vitrified clay  pipe work through the open and displaced joint's. newforms planthen was to install a patch liner over the worst of these leaks using a glass fibre matting and a calibration bladder with a working pressure of around 2 bar, once this was complete we then went on to install a 12 metre bendy liner impregnated with a silicate resin, the choice was use silicate as it does not shrinklike the polyester resins this in turn would create a better water tight finish not allowing any water to run down the back of the liner. Once this was installed we thought we had solved the problem,until the next morning we showed up to check everything was ok only to find water pouring out of the ground in an area there was no noticeable sign of water before after a talk among our selves we come to the conclusionthis had to be a water leak of some description so we called in Bristol water they had a look around and confirmed it was a water leak but could not find where it was coming from after hunting around and using the cat and genny on any water pipe we could find, we found the pipe and disconnected it. the plan of action is to now run a new 25mm plastic water supply above ground to save on the cost of excavation.

problem solved

yet another satisfied clientpipe lining equipment