Leaks at somerset cider pressing mill

pipe liningsoon after arriving at the cider pressing mill we were a first a bit taken back by the large amount of water we was contending with. it started as a leak into one of the waste holding pits but after force pumping 80 kg of expanding foam grout beyond the chamber wall, the water found its way in to the adjacent old clay  pipe work through the open and displaced joint's. newforms plan of actionthen was to patch line over the worst of these leaks using a fibre glass mat 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 reduce in diameter after curinglike the polyester resins this in turn would create a better seal not letting any water to run down the back of the impregnated liner. Once this was installed we thought we had solved the problem,until the next morning we arrived to check everything was ok only to find water leaking out of the ground in an area there was no noticeable sign of water before after a discussion 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 identify where the water 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 idea is to now run a new 25mm plastic water supply above ground to save on the cost of excavation.

job done

yet another happy customerpipe lining