CIPP (Cured-in-Place Pipe)

When a sewer main, storm line, or pressure pipe fails, the old fix meant tearing up your road, parking lot, or right-of-way and rebuilding it after. Cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) replaces that. We pull a resin-saturated liner through your existing pipe, cure it solid, and walk away with a structurally new pipe inside the old one — no trench, no demolition, no months of disruption. American Water, Sewer & Drain installs CIPP across Vero Beach, the Treasure Coast, and statewide Florida. We handle the whole job, start to finish, with one crew and one number to call. Our Vactor fleet cleans and preps the line, our cameras prove the condition before and after, and our trenchless rigs cure the liner in place — pipes from 2 inches up to 110 inches. As a Florida State Certified Underground Utility Contractor (CUC 1225741), bonded, licensed, and insured, we bring the same standard to a homeowner's lateral that we bring to FDOT and municipal contracts.

How CIPP Works

CIPP is a trenchless rehabilitation method that builds a brand-new pipe inside your failing one. First we clean and descale the host pipe with our Vactor equipment, then run a CCTV camera to map every crack, root intrusion, and offset joint. Next we saturate a felt or fiberglass liner with structural resin, invert or pull it into position, and cure it — using ambient, hot water, steam, or UV depending on the line — until it hardens into a tight, jointless, corrosion-resistant pipe. A final camera pass confirms the finished bore. The result is a fully structural pipe that handles flow and pressure on its own, typically rated for a 50-year service life, with no excavation and only minimal access points.

Where We Use It

CIPP fits almost any gravity or pressure line that's cracked, leaking, root-infiltrated, or corroded but not collapsed — sanitary sewer mains and laterals, stormwater culverts, industrial process lines, and utility conduits. Because we line from 2 inches to 110 inches, we work the full range from a single-family sewer lateral to large-diameter municipal trunk lines and highway drainage. It's the right call when digging would mean tearing up a finished road, a parking lot, a runway, a landscaped property, or a line buried deep under other utilities — exactly the conditions we handle on FDOT and municipal work across Florida.

Why American Water, Sewer & Drain

You get one vendor for the entire scope — cleaning, inspection, lining, and reinstatement — instead of stitching together a camera crew, a vac truck, and a separate liner installer. We're a Florida State Certified Underground Utility Contractor (CUC 1225741), bonded, licensed, and insured, with a delivered track record on demanding public projects: the Kanner Highway E4V49 job for FDOT at $1.42M, District 5 work in Lake County, and PGA Village WO9 at $1.345M. That DOT-grade discipline — traffic control, bypass pumping, documentation, and inspection — comes standard whether you're a city engineer or a property owner. Our owned Vactor fleet and trenchless rigs mean we're not waiting on a sub to show up.

What to Expect

We start with a camera inspection and a straight assessment of whether CIPP is the right method for your line — if a pipe is collapsed or too far gone, we'll tell you and recommend the alternative. You get a clear scope and price up front. On install day, most jobs are completed through existing manholes or small access points, so your surface stays intact, and many lines are back in service within a day of curing. For sewer work, we reinstate any service connections by robotic cutter and hand you the before-and-after video as proof of the finished pipe. Throughout, you deal with our crew directly — no layers, no finger-pointing, one accountable contractor.

Frequently asked questions

Will you have to dig up my yard or road to do CIPP?

No — that's the whole point of cured-in-place pipe. We work through your existing pipe using manholes or small access points, so there's no trench, no demolition, and no rebuild of your road, parking lot, or landscaping. The only digging, if any, is a small access pit on lines that have no usable entry point, and we'll flag that before we start.

What size and type of pipe can you line?

We install CIPP from 2 inches up to 110 inches in diameter, which covers everything from a single-family sewer lateral to large municipal trunk mains and highway drainage culverts. CIPP works on sanitary sewer, stormwater, and many pressure and industrial lines as long as the host pipe is intact enough to hold the liner. We confirm fit with a camera inspection first.

How long does the new pipe last, and is the work warrantied?

A properly installed CIPP liner is a fully structural pipe typically rated for a 50-year service life, resistant to corrosion, root intrusion, and the leaking joints that fail the original line. We're a Florida State Certified Underground Utility Contractor (CUC 1225741), bonded, licensed, and insured, and we document every job with before-and-after CCTV video so you have proof the finished pipe meets spec.