We were faced with an extremely unusual circumstance in our factory. We have a building which was constructed in 1964 and the main water supply from the street passes under our office, which is fully carpeted and decorated and in daily use, into our plant where it comes up from the floor into a mechanical service room. The main shut off valve had been weeping onto the exposed galvanized pipe for many years causing the pipe wall to corrode to the extent that our plumber was concerned that it was fragile enough to burst at any point in time.

Our problem was unique; in that he had no method of wrapping the pipe due to the fragile 2 foot section that had corroded, and he also had no method of turning off the water to this pipe because our sprinkler system was fed off the same water supply main as the pipe in question which could not be independently turned off.

Accordingly, the only effective repair that was available to us was to temporarily turn off the water to both the building and sprinkler system, break up the floor in our office, dig a trench outside our building, pull out the corroded pipe in its entirety, and put in a new copper line to replace it. Our plumber estimates that this would have cost in excess of $10,000, and obviously a disruption to our daily operations and the resulting mess would have been considerable. Instead he was able to carefully excavate 8 to 10 inches below the ground level by breaking away the concrete floor in the supply room and digging by hand.

This gave us access to the corroded pipe which we were able to wrap with the POW-R WRAP. It appears that the section of the pipe that goes below the ground was not affected by the years of weeping from the valve and we feel that the bandage that the POW-R WRAP has provided us is now essentially a permanent repair.

Congratulations on a unique product and the proof of the pudding is that our plumber (who originally stated a product like this would "put him out of business") has booked an order for 6 rolls of POW-R WRAP which he will be using in his normal course of business.