Property & Construction | Drain Surgeons
Professional Drain laying and repair service Drain Surgeons’ professional services have been put to good use in the repair and rebuild of Christchurch’s underground infrastructure. Bill Whitelegg says the company is doing a lot of drain repair and maintenance work for the Christchurch City and Waimakariri District Councils, as well as for SCIRT (Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team.) Drain Surgeons’ registered drain layers have the experience and equipment to tackle any drainage work, including large commercial projects. Emergency repair work can be carried out 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with Drain Surgeons specialising in challenging repair work that other companies might avoid. “Our niche market is doing the hard jobs that other people don’t want to do,” Whitelegg says.
Drain Surgeons’ industrial drain laying and repair work includes: • Stormwater and sewer repairs and renovation • Council defective drainage repairs • Flooding and water infiltration projects • Repair of collapsed and broken drains
Industrial drainage work
• New house drainage installations
Drain Surgeons offers a range of industrial drainage work that will ensure your business keeps operating efficiently. This includes:
• Additions and renovations
• Drain laying and repairs • CCTV drainage inspection • Vacuum loading • Drain cleaning and hydro jetting • Pipe relining (pipe patching) • HD laser profiling • Source Detection • Fault location • Smoke testing • Hydro excavation • Full maintenance programmes • Storm water maintenance.
• Commercial and factory drainage • New manholes • Manhole rehabilitation • Pump chambers • Detention and retention tanks • Cess pit installation • Full reinstatement services. Drain Surgeons offers its industrial and commercial services to a wide range of customers, including local authorities and large construction. The company undertakes vacuum loading, drain cleaning and hydro jetting, pipe relining, source detection and fault location work, as well as smoke testing, hydro excavation and stormwater maintenance.
Councils, undertaking profiling on trunk sewer lines and fully submerged outfall lines.
“Laser profiling involves a fairly unique piece of equipment that has been developed and built in conjunction with a partner here. We use that for our work with Water Care and for projects around New Zealand investigating the main trunk lines.”
CCTV council consents
The laser profiler is a stand-alone tool for use with CCTV survey systems in order to collect survey data and create accurate pipeline reports. This information includes measurements of pipe size, laterals, water levels and other features, as well as automatic analysis of pipe ovality and capacity up to 30 times per second. The laser profiler attaches to Drain Surgeons’ CCTV equipment and the resulting images are analysed using innovative machine vision software. “With that technology and our expertise we’re being asked to go all over the world,” he says. Within New Zealand, Drain Surgeons has work on hand with Watercare Services with Auckland, Hastings, Gisborne and Timaru
Drain Surgeons can help customers provide their local council with CCTV footage and log sheets of drains underneath proposed work sites, whether they’re building, renovating or installing a swimming pool. This information is often required by councils to determine the condition of the drains before work begins. Drain Surgeons’ Build Over package is highly regarded and includes a DVD recording, log sheets, as-built plans, accurate invert levels, fault identification and pipe location services. Drain Surgeons Limited Charlies Takeaways 4 Stone Street Kaiapoi T 0800 372 468 www.drainsurgeons.co.nz
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Whitelegg says a specialised service offered by Drain Surgeons involves high-definition laser profiling. Drain Surgeons is an industry leader in large bore pipeline investigations using state of the art laser, sonar and highdefinition CCTV profiling systems.
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