Traditionally this meant excavating down to the defect and cutting out and replacing that section of pipe, but trenchless point repair methods now let a contractor install a short internal patch — a resin-saturated sleeve cured in place, or a mechanical sleeve — through the existing manhole access, without digging at all. Point repair sits alongside CIPP, sliplining, and pipe bursting as one of the standard options in a typical pipe rehabilitation matrix, and it's usually the lower-cost, faster option when a CCTV inspection shows the pipe is otherwise in good condition with just one or two isolated defects, rather than deterioration along its full length. Because point repair addresses a specific defect rather than the whole pipe, projects frequently bid it as a per-repair or per-location unit price rather than a linear-foot quantity, with the actual count of repairs sometimes left open until the CCTV inspection or field verification confirms exactly how many defects need fixing. Because point repair quantities are often not finalized until inspection data confirms exactly how many defects exist, reading both the design-phase estimate and the underlying CCTV defect log matters for pricing this scope accurately — which is the kind of cross-referencing Nonlinear can do automatically across a bid package's documents.
Knowledge Base
What is a point repair (spot repair)?
A point repair (or spot repair) fixes a single, localized defect in a pipe — a crack, a collapsed section, an offset joint — without rehabilitating or replacing the entire pipe segment between manholes.
