Impact moling is a limited dig, low-impact method of replacing underground water pipes. The use of moling equipment allows replacing lead pipes, upgrading existing supply pipes, or separating shared water supply pipes can be completed quickly with minimal disruption to existing landscapes.
By excavating a series of carefully chosen launch and retrieval pits at the required depth, the pneumatically driven impact mole tunnels its way underground, leaving a route for the new pipe in its path.
Moling is one of the most reliable and least disruptive methods of carrying out water supply pipe replacements employed throughout the water industry today.
Typically, water supply pipe replacement involves excavating a launch pit at the customer’s side of the property boundary (in line with the outside stop valve) and a retrieval pit at the newly chosen point of entry into the building.
The excavations are small enough to be excavated in carefully chosen locations by hand.
The impact mole will bore underground from the launch pit at the boundary to the retrieval pit at the new point of entry into the building. The supply pipe replacement can then be fed through the borehole to be connected to the outside stop valve and internal plumbing.
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