The new pipe goes in through the old one.
On the island, a sewer trench is nobody's small matter. The streets are historic, the properties sit close, the gardens took decades, and everything dug up has neighbors watching it get dug. So when an original clay line under a Coronado home finally needs more than clearing, the first question should always be whether the fix can happen without the excavation. Increasingly, the answer is yes. The line gets rebuilt from the inside, trenchless.
The method, pipe lining or CIPP, runs through the existing cleanout. A resin soaked liner presses against the old pipe's walls and cures into a new seamless pipe inside it, structural, jointless, and built for decades. For the island's century old clay, jointless is the entire story. Every root that ever invaded came through a joint, and the new pipe removes joints from existence. The heritage trees keep their roots and lose their access, the garden above never gets touched, and the street stays exactly as photogenic as it was. Island problem, island appropriate solution.
The honest limits. Lining needs a pipe that still holds its shape, and the camera determines that before anything else, footage first, always. If your line qualifies, you'll see exactly why and what the process involves. If it doesn't, you'll hear that straight, with the real alternatives explained. Either way the decision is yours, made at island pace, with a licensed contractor performing the work when you say so. On Coronado, the best projects are the ones the neighbors never notice. This is built to be one.
"The camera decides if lining is honest. Not a sales pitch."
