Trenchless Sewer Repair in Lenexa, KS

Why Lenexa sewer lines fail

Lenexa is really two cities when it comes to sewers. The established neighborhoods that filled in through the 1970s and 80s off 87th, Quivira, and Pflumm sit on clay or early plastic laterals that have been in the ground long enough to crack and sag, and the historic core around Old Town Lenexa is older still. Johnson County's expansive clay soil makes the wear worse. It swells when wet and shrinks when dry, working those pipes back and forth until joints separate and bellies form. Then the roots from Lenexa's mature trees find the cracks, and you get the slow drains and backups that bring people to call me. I run a camera down the line first so we know exactly what is wrong and where before anyone digs anything.

Lining instead of trenching

When the pipe is cracked or full of roots but still holding its shape, cured-in-place lining is the cleanest repair. I saturate a felt liner with resin, pull it through the old lateral, and cure it in place to form a new seamless pipe inside the old one. The joints the roots used to exploit are gone, and there is no trench scarring your Lenexa yard. For a lot of the 80s-era homes here, that is the whole job. See my pipe lining page for the details.

When it needs full replacement

If the clay soil movement has collapsed the lateral or pulled it badly out of line, a liner will not hold and the pipe has to be replaced. Pipe bursting does that without a long trench. I pull a new HDPE pipe along the existing path while a bursting head splits the old pipe outward, working from two small pits instead of a ditch across the drive. That matters in Lenexa where so many laterals run under a finished driveway or mature landscaping. More on my pipe bursting page.