Case Study: Leaking Dishwasher 50mm Plastic Pipe Repair in Golf Clubhouse Kitchen

Case Study Data

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Site
Golf club
Location
United Kingdom
Repair Type
No pressure pipe repair
Defect
Split in 50mm plastic pipe connected to dishwasher

Products Used

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Wrap & Seal Pipe Burst Tape
Self-amalgamating repair tape which fuses to form a solid rubber band, containing pipe content

SylWrap HD Pipe Repair Bandage
Composite repair wrap with water activated resin sets rock hard to reinforce and protect repairs

SylWrap Universal Pipe Repair Kit
Kit containing products needed to make a single permanent live leak repair in under 30 minutes

Case Study PDF

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Case Study Details

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Staff arrived at the golf club on Sunday morning to discover a significant amount of water all over the kitchen floor, surrounding the dishwasher which was always left to run overnight.

After emptying the appliance and pulling it out from its position against the wall, they noticed a 50mm plastic drainpipe at the back of the dishwasher had a split around its diameter.

Sunday is the busiest day of the week for the golf club; not just with members playing but also guests drinking in the bar and the restaurant serving brunch and Sunday lunch.

Washing everything by hand until the dishwasher pipe could be fixed by a plumber or replaced would therefore have been almost a full-time job for one member of staff.

Worried about the disruption this would cause, the golf club initially considered calling someone in on their day off to try and help manage the load. But before doing that, they contacted the contractor who serviced their drains in the hope he might have a solution.

The contractor kept a stock of Sylmasta products on his van for fixing leaking pipes at hospitals and other facilities. After arriving at the clubhouse, the contractor opted to use a SylWrap Universal Pipe Repair Kit.

Because the split covered the diameter of the pipe, the contractor applied Wrap & Seal Pipe Burst Tape for the first stage of repair. It was easier to wrap tape over the split than mixing and forming epoxy putty into a sausage before applying it all around the pipe.

Wrap & Seal was stretched by three times its length and as it was wrapped, fused together to form a solid rubber band exerting enough force over the leak to withstand 25 bar pressure.

This easily contained the leak in the dishwasher drain pipe, which operated at no more than 2 bar. The repair was then reinforced with SylWrap HD Pipe Repair Bandage. SylWrap HD is a composite wrap with a water-activated resin.

It was wrapped and smoothed over the Wrap & Seal, where it cured within minutes to form a rock-hard, impact resistant layer of protection.

The contractor completed the repair in under 30 minutes before the lunchtime rush began. Thanks to the ease and speed with which the leak was sealed, the dishwasher was back in operation for staff to clear the minimal backlog of dirty dishes from breakfast without needing to clean any by hand.