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Tough
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- WAL•MART
Retail Outlet - Lompoc, California - 2003
The people at
WAL•MART need the aisles open during business hours so this was
a night job.
The main
sewer line from the store was in serious need of replacement
and ran the length of the store. As with many WAL•MART
locations, the store features a McDonalds restaurant inside.
The original pipe was made of cast iron which suffered
severe corrosion from cola which was present inn the
drainage from the restaurant over a period of years.
Lompoc's Plumbing Inspector would not allow PVC and insisted
on ABS replacement. All the old cast iron pipe was replaced
with ABS (which was fused ahead of time) to resist corrosion
occurring again, and the entire job laid a total of 400' of
4' and 6' pipe.
Work pits
had to be dug requiring a concrete saw to extract sections
of flooring which would be replaced as covers during
operation hours of the store. The job took three days,
disruption to staff and customers alike was minimal and even
WAL•MART was relieved at the difference in cost by going
trenchless!
Traditional methods of replacement would have caused serious
interruption to business, would have taken at least a month
to complete and restorations costs would have been very
high.
Welcome to WAL•MART
Pipe
pulling equipment was brought into the store by hand due to
narrow access routes
The
location for the pit was in a high-traffic area requiring all
work to be done after hours
During
the course of the job the pit had to be covered and secured
during business hours
The
hand-dug pit (due to the interior location) was 7' deep and
the pulling equipment was assembled in the hole
New pipe was
fed into the pit by hand
New
pipe is finally in place and the job is complete
The
safety supervisor took his job quite seriously but we were
sure
he was smiling on the inside at how smoothly the project went!
WAL•MART
once again had both happy shoppers AND a functional sewer!
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