Smoke testing: Smoke testing locates I&I sources by identifying cross-connections of storm water drains, broken pipes, and unsealed utility holes into your sewer network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n
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For smoke testing, the process commences with a fog machine that generates smoke into the sewer system via a motorized blower unit. Once this is done, the natural venting of the system begins. This is where the generated smoke is drawn into various openings, including a storm water sump or pipe. Hence, if a shallow pipe in your sewer system is broken, this smoke will penetrate up through the ground and will be immediately seen. In essence, where there’s smoke, there’s evidence of an illegal sewer system connection. Now, because smoke from different components can be toxic if inhaled, PPS employs a non-residual thermal fog with zero traces of carbon monoxide\u2014thus making the process free of toxicity and completely safe. Once smoke testing is complete, a licensed and accredited plumbing company like PPS can provide comprehensive reports on the findings. This, of course, will be inclusive of photos as evidence of illegal connections.<\/p>\n
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Storm water infiltration can be very detrimental to human health and the integrity of the property or structure. This is why early detection of the problem and identification of its source is mandatory. Luckily, by employing smoke testing, which poses no health risks, adequate corrective measures can be taken in time.<\/p>\n
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The infiltration of storm water in a commercial or domestic sewer network can pose major detriments to humans’ health and structure integrity. On a large scale, storm water’s infiltration in a city’s sewer system is usually achieved through low gully traps, broken pipes, illegal connections, and unsealed utility holes. When this happens, it’s referred to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppssa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}