Trees are an important part of our natural environment, providing a range of benefits including shade, beauty, and air purification. However, the roots of trees can also have a significant impact on drainage systems, causing blockages and damage that can be costly to repair. In this post, we’ll explore the impact of tree roots on drainage systems and what can be done to mitigate these effects.
The Effects of Heavy Rain on Drainage Systems
Common Causes of Drain Blockages and How to Avoid Them
Blocked drains are one of the most common plumbing and drainage problems that homeowners and business owners face. They can cause inconvenience, damage to your property, and even health hazards. In this article, we’ll explore the common causes of drain blockages and how to avoid them.
The Importance of Regular Drain Maintenance: Avoiding Costly Repairs and Protecting Your Property
Drainage systems play a vital role in our daily lives, providing a means of removing wastewater and preventing flooding. However, these systems are often overlooked until a problem arises. Clogged drains, damaged pipes, and sewer backups can cause significant damage to homes and businesses, resulting in costly repairs and potential health hazards. In this post, we’ll explore the importance of regular drain maintenance and how it can help prevent these issues.
Do Drain Cleaning Products Work?
What Does Drain Tracing Involve?
Benefits of Commercial Drain Cleaning
If you have a business and you either own or rent commercial property, you may not be aware that the sewers and drains are also part of the smooth running of your business. Looking after your drains and having drain cleaning carried out is essential if you care about the well-being of the people that work for you
Tree Roots and Drainage
We’re looking at tree roots and drainage and how much damage trees and branches can cause. Your drains are the first thing to suffer in a storm when the wind will blow various twigs, branches and tree parts into your garden. Some of them will cause serious problems once they enter your drains. Trees have an amazing ability to grow in a drainage system because they provide the ideal conditions. This means you could have a big problems on your hands before you realise it.
The Importance of Regularly Checking Your Drains
It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to regularly check your drains. If not, a small problem can become a much bigger problem in a short amount of time, leaving you with a massive bill. Much better then to check them regularly and do some simple drainage repairs yourself, and even if you identify a bigger problem, dealt with earlier, you’ll save money and time in the long run.
Common Causes of Blocked Toilets
What can you do about a blocked toilet?
Perhaps you’ve dreaded something like this happening, because after all, it’s not exactly the best situation to find yourself in. You may have invited guests round, and naturally you want the place to be perfect only to realise you have a blocked toilet. You soon realise that no amount of flushing is going to help whatever it is that’s blocking it.
That’s when you need to sit down for a moment and think about what it is you can do to correct the problem before calling in a professional.
What are the most common causes of blocked toilets?
Have you considered that you or other members of your family are flushing down the wrong materials? This could be anything from wet wipes, different types of cotton wool, dental floss, sanitary towels or nappies. If you think that other members of the family are trying to flush things like this down the loo, it may be time to have a chat with them and educate them on the dos and don'ts of flushing!
This could be the long-term solution you’ve been looking for - because if people have been flushing things down that they shouldn't be, once you’ve put a stop to it, it should be the end of your problems, but what if this isn’t the case?
The U bend is useful but it can be tricky for sticky objects.
Down around the U bend is where stuff gets stuck. This part of the piping is always filled with water and acts as a barrier to removing bad smells that can build up. However the downside of your U bend is that it can also trap things in it that shouldn’t be there at all. Clogging and blockages are an enemy of the U bend, and this is why you need to be careful.
If you catch it early and it doesn’t seem too bad you can try using a plunger which can do a lot to help get rid of the blockage. If this doesn’t work then it could be something more serious.
The sewer line blockage.
Your problem may not be in your bend, vent or drain pipe; it could be in the sewer line underneath the property. It could involve an investigation that results in digging up the sewer and removing the blockage itself.
East of Scotland Drainage Services - Experience & Expertise
Here at East of Scotland Drainage Services we usually like to investigate the problem before we make a diagnosis, and then once we know what it is that’s causing it we can decide on the solution. If you have a blocked toilet why not contact us, we’re always here to help.
Signs You Need a Drainage Expert
A drain in need of repair is a drain that requires immediate action, or it can be a difficult and expensive journey ahead. There are signs you can look out for however, and hiring the right drainage expert with the requisite skill set, experience and expertise is another step in the right direction.
How Long Does a CCTV Drain Survey Take to Complete?
A CCTV drain survey is one of the most sophisticated methods for detecting problems in a drainage system. We use it when we’re not sure of the problem and want to make an accurate diagnosis. Once we’ve done that we can ascertain what the solution might be for this type of issue and then do something about it.
Drainage For New Builds: Best Practice and Potential Problems
We all know by now how important drainage management is - that goes for all types and it’s especially important for new builds. Drainage systems change how they work over time as new systems come into existence, and in a new build the untested ones can prove a little temperamental in the first few weeks and months.
Preventing Frozen Pipes This Winter
As the temperature gradually dips lower each day, and December fast approaches, we know that by January we’ll be getting early morning frosts, and in some parts of the country snow and hail. This is bound to play havoc with our pipes, and could ultimately could cause our heating to seize up completely - which is exactly what we don’t want when we're experiencing freezing cold weather.
How to Identify & Repair Collapsed Drains
Drainage For Flood Prevention
Autumn and winter are approaching, and as with our all too familiar British weather of late, storms and heavy rain are part of the deal. Sadly, some areas will get it worse than others and there’ll be some towns and villages that’ll get flooded. There are many in the UK at risk of flooding and despite all the government has done to help with preventative measures, homes and businesses are still at risk.
Tenant or Landlord - Who is Responsible For Unblocking Drains?
When is Drain Excavation Necessary?
We recommend drain excavations when you’re left with no other options. It’s a difficult job and we wouldn’t recommend it unless we believed it to be absolutely essential. We’re talking about careful safety monitoring here and this can be expensive, so we’ll always try every other method first until we’ve exhausted all other options.
Your Guide to High Pressure Water Jetting
Your drains are blocked and your drainage engineer says ‘high pressure water jetting’ to you over the phone. What do you think he’s talking about? Well high pressure water jetting is often used to clean and unblock drains. It’s also called hydro-jetting. As you can imagine the clue is in the title - yes, there’s water involved as might have guessed, but what it’s really about is removing what’s blocking your drains using a high pressure jet of water.
How to Work Out If Your Drains Have Collapsed
What would you do if your drains collapsed? It may not be something you think about, after all, you can probably think of a million things that are far more important right now. However if your drain does collapse like this, it could spell disaster if you don’t act quickly enough and call in experienced drainage contractors.