Era 01 · 1890 – 1955
Clay tile
Fails asRoot intrusionOur methodCIPPSeen inBexley · Clintonville
Trenchless only · Columbus, OH · Since 1978
Repaired from the inside.
Your sewer lateral is buried five to eight feet below the yard, older than your house, and failing on a forty-year schedule. Wooley restores it without excavation — a CIPP liner, a burst, a hydro jet. The oak stays, the brick walk stays, the lawn stays.
Tenure
47 years · family-owned
Certifications
Perma-Liner · Pow-R Mole · PACP-NASSCO
Standards
ASTM F1216 · F1962 · NSF-61
Reviews
4.9 / 5 · 73 verified Google
01Field guide
What's under your lawn, by era.
Central Ohio laterals are a geological record of the century — clay tile from pre-war Bexley, Orangeburg from the post-war boom, cast iron from the 70s belt. Wooley identifies the host on scope day. The pipe tells us the method.
Era 02 · 1948 – 1972
Orangeburg
Fails asCollapseOur methodBurstingSeen inWesterville · UA
Era 03 · 1890 – 1985
Cast iron
Fails asPinhole · flowOur methodCIPP or burstSeen inShort North · Downtown
Era 04 · 1970 – now
PVC & HDPE
Fails asJoint · shiftOur methodSpot repairSeen inNew Albany · Powell
02Methodology
The lateral. The oak. The standoff.
Every Bexley, Clintonville, or Upper Arlington job balances two plans: where the pipe is (vertical) and where the protected root zone is (horizontal). Trenchless exists for exactly this crossroads.
Plate · 02 / 01 · depth + tree-protection
Ref. Bexley job № 26-203 · NASTT · ISA
Pane A · Section view
Depth to lateral, N. Bexley.
Clay-tile lateral at 5.4 ft below grade, 92 ft from interior cleanout to municipal tap. CIPP liner inverts from the cleanout in a single pass — no excavation ever crosses the yard.
Pane B · Plan view
Critical root zone & standoff.
The old open-cut route would have breached the critical root zone of a protected 36-inch oak. The CIPP line reaches the same tap without a single root disturbed. This is the pitch.
FLFlagship method
The 1-day fix that lasts 50 years.
CIPP — cured-in-place pipe — is a resin-saturated felt liner that inverts through the existing cleanout, expands against the host wall, and steam-cures into a structural pipe-within-the-pipe. No excavation. No disturbed roots. No torn-up walk. Manufacturer rates the cured liner at a 50-year design life; we pass that warranty through to the homeowner in writing.
- Single-day install · 6 – 8 hours typical
- 50-year manufacturer warranty · 10-year Wooley workmanship
- PACP-NASSCO video delivered every job
- Installed in-house · zero subcontractors
03Ohio lateral calendar
Failure is seasonal. Plan around the ground.
Groundwater, frost, and root-growth cycles drive four predictable failure windows every year. Scope reactive and scope ahead — pre-sale, pre-freeze, post-thaw.
Late winter / thaw
Frost release + saturated subgrade lifts pipe sections. Clay joints open, groundwater enters, sewage backs up.
When to callBasement backup · foul odour
Spring root growth
Peak root elongation into warm clay joints. Residential laterals on mature lots block within weeks.
When to callRecurring snake · pre-sale scope
Dry subgrade
Subgrade contracts, offset joints widen. Cast-iron scale breaks off. Ideal cure window — dry days, no frost.
When to callPlanned replacement · upgrade
Pre-freeze
Last window before the ground freezes. Repair now so emergency isn't your only option. Holiday backups lead the reactive queue.
When to callCamera scope + estimate
04The guarantee
You keep the oak. We keep the video.
Every trenchless repair closes with a PACP-NASSCO-coded camera video delivered to the homeowner, buyer, or inspector. Manufacturer warranty on the liner is 50 years. Workmanship warranty from Wooley is 10. If any piece of this isn't true at close, we return and make it right.
- PACP-coded video delivered within 24 hours of every job
- 50-year manufacturer liner warranty passed through in writing
- 10-year Wooley workmanship guarantee · zero subcontractors
- Permit filed on your behalf · inspector scheduled for close-out
05Methods
Six ways to not dig.
Method is driven by the pipe, not the pitch. Every scope routes one of these six — and every job closes with camera video.
№ 01 · Flagship
CIPP pipe lining
Resin-saturated felt liner inverts through the existing cleanout and cures into a pipe-within-the-pipe. 50-year design life.
HostClay · Cast iron · PVC
№ 02
Pipe bursting
Hydraulic head fractures the old pipe outward, pulling HDPE through. Two small access pits only.
HostOrangeburg · collapsed
№ 03
Hydro jetting
4,000 PSI truck-mounted jetting. Grease, scale, root — all. Camera-verified before and after.
HostAll · 2"–8" Ø
№ 04
Camera scope
PACP-NASSCO coded. Push camera for laterals, crawler for larger mains. Video delivered every job.
Range$175 – $450
№ 05
Trenchless umbrella
The no-dig category — we route the right method to your pipe. Method-agnostic diagnosis, driven by the scope.
CoversAll no-dig options
№ 06
Sewer line repair
Spot, full-length, or open-cut when the pipe genuinely calls for it. We don't pretend trenchless fits every job.
ScopeEstimate-driven
CAMDiagnosis-first
It begins with the camera.
Every method routes through PACP-NASSCO video. We don't quote a method until we've seen the pipe — which is why we'll never sell you a liner the bore can't take, or a burst the right-of-way won't allow.
06Ledger
Forty-seven years. Zero subcontracted repair.
The scoper is the installer. The installer is the owner. That's unusual in this market — and it's the reason every job closes with a PACP video signed by the person who did the work.
/ 001 · Tenure47YRSContinuous family-owned operation since 1978. Eric Wooley founded the business; Heath took over in 1992.
/ 002 · Reputation4.9OF 5 · 73 REVIEWSEvery review Google-verified. First review 2011. Trust accumulated one lateral at a time.
/ 003 · Capability0SUBSEvery method performed in-house on owned equipment. Zero subcontracted repair.
/ 004 · Warranty50YR DESIGN LIFECIPP manufacturer spec. Warranty passed through to the property owner in writing.
07Case log
One Bexley lateral. Six weeks from closing.
What a pre-sale scope looks like when the pipe under the oak is the reason four competitors said "excavate."
Job № 26-203
Bexley · 43209
Q1 2026
PACP grade 5 · offset + collapse
We were six weeks from closing on a 1928 Tudor and the pre-sale scope found a collapsed clay section under a protected 80-year-old oak. Four estimates said excavate. Wooley quoted a CIPP line through the existing cleanout — one day on site, no arborist review, no disturbed roots. The oak is fine, the sale closed on time, and we got the PACP video for the buyer's file.
Stephen Durant
Principal Broker · Durant & Fox · Bexley
- Property
- 1928 Tudor Revival
- Host pipe
- 6" clay · 92 ft
- Defect
- Offset + collapse @ 42 ft
- Method
- CIPP · interior cleanout
- On site
- 6.5 hrs · steam cure
- Surface
- Zero disruption
- Cost
- $14,720 · $160/lf
- Warranty
- 50-yr + 10-yr
08Service area
25 miles of Carroll, OH. Named coverage.
Four Tier-1 markets with dedicated neighborhood pages + five Tier-2 cities within the dispatch radius.
Backup, sinkhole, or pre-sale scope? Dispatch in < 2 hours, 25 miles of Carroll, OH.
(614) 426-0078
09Dispatch
Backup twice in 90 days? The pipe is gone.
Your basement floor drain doesn't back up on a schedule because the snake was wrong. It backs up because a joint in hundred-year-old clay tile has lost its seal, or a 1960s Orangeburg run is ovalizing, or the cast-iron bore has scaled to half its original diameter. What you need is a camera down the cleanout, a written estimate for the right method, and a crew that performs it end-to-end in a single day.
(614) 426-0078