Polybutylene, a form of plastic resin, was used extensively in the manufacture of water supply piping from 1978 until 1995. Because of the low material cost and ease of installation, these poly pipe systems were used as a substitute for traditional copper piping. However, this type of pipe is prone to leaks. When your yard water line starts leaking because you have a blue poly or polybutylene line or any other kind of line, we can replace it for you quickly as we are the polybutylene pipe specialists in Atlanta.

The first step is to call the Georgia Utility Protection Center (http://www.gaupc.com/). They will arrange for all your utilities (gas, cable, electric) to be marked with spray paint or flags. If you have an active poly leak or an out- of-service blue poly yard line, ask for an emergency locate and they will typically respond within 24 hours. Otherwise, give the center four days to mark your property. Law requires this before we start work and will help us avoid damaging your utilities.
For yard line replacement we have equipment that can bore a two-inch hole under your driveway and sidewalks and flower beds. When we replace blue poly or polybutylene yard service lines, we are careful to do as little disturbance to your yard as is possible. It is a rare situation when the concrete needs to be cut to install a new water line to replace polybutylene pipe.

Some plumbers use a method to pull a new pipe through the blue poly pipe. We rarely recommend this method because you do not know the condition of the new pipe when it is pulled through another pipe or through the ground. Copper pipe is very easily bent or kinked and pulling copper pipe is not good for this reason. An open ditch is a much better method for replacing poly pipe or any other pipe because the new pipe is laid into the ground and you know exactly what condition the pipe is in because you can see it.

	Where is the water leak? If it is not readily visible, we do not know. It is disappearing into the ground.
	Are you going to dig out the old pipe? No, we abandon the pipe in the ground.
	How long will I be without water? About 3 hours.
	How do you put the pipe into the ground? We trench a 4 inch wide trench in the ground and then cover the pipe and rake the dirt as neat as is possible.
	Does Greenlee Plumbing replace the grass with sod? No, most grass will grow back within a few months or can be resodded by a landscape company.
	Will Greenlee Plumbing have to cut our drive way in order to get the water line to the house? No, we bore under the drive way with no damage to the concrete.
	Will Greenlee Plumbing have to dig through our flower beds? Sometimes we have to do that but we try to bore underneath the flower beds to cause no disruption.
	Will Greenlee Plumbing be responsible for the operation of our sprinkler system? If we see that we cut the white PVC piping, we will repair the PVC. If we cut the control wires or sprinkler heads, we ask that your sprinkler man repair the sprinkler system. We try to avoid damage to the sprinkler system.
	Does Greenlee Plumbing try to avoid damage to other systems? Yes, we call in to get the utility lines located so that we can try to avoid damaging them. We also try to avoid any damage to the sprinkler system.
	What forms of payment do you accept? We accept cash, checks, and Master Card and Visa.

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