Rain Drain Pipe Restoration At Triton Towers, Miami Beach

The Insurmountable Problem

The lobby in this luxury high rise is 30′ high and adorned in imported marble. Unfortunately the cast iron rain drains were cracked and leaking behind solid concrete block walls. Normally the new pipe lining would be pulled up into the pipe from the bottom lobby, but access into the wall was not an option. Shooting the liner down from the top was the last option, but the liner would be too heavy for that in this case.

We Pulled It Off – World Record Air Inversion

When other pipe lining companies cannot perform an installation, they turn to us as a last resort. For example, all pipe lining manufacturers and installers said it was impossible to install one continuous rain drain pipe liner of 160’ in length and of 6” diameter by using air inversion from the roof down. The reason they said was that the lining, weighing in at 300+ pounds, would fall down the pipe before the inflation bladder could be installed in it. We however, using a proprietary method, installed 6 of the liners over a 3 night period, with several of the pipes having 3-4 90-degree bends.

Plumbers estimated that the leaking rain drains would cost $54,000 each to replace and take 3 months to complete. Rain drain pipe lining from the rooftop took 5 days and $18,000 each.