rePipe utilizes both static pull and pneumatic techniques for pipe bursting. Static heads have no moving internal parts and expand the existing pipe through the pulling action of the bursting tool. Pneumatic heads pulsate internal air pressure within the bursting tool to provide additional force at the point of impact. Both methods push broken pieces of the old pipeline into the surrounding soil thus allowing the new pipe to be the same size or several sizes larger than the pipe it replaces.

rePipe can utilize existing manholes as a point of entry at one end of the failed pipe section. A steel line, connected to a constant-tension winch, is connected to the tool from the exit manhole at the other end of the section. The new pipe is connected to the back of the tool and is pulled through along with the tool.