Question 1

I rent on the estate. Do I ring you or my landlord?

Accepted Answer

Check your tenancy first, because drainage repairs are usually the landlord's or the housing provider's job and you should not be footing the bill. If they ask you to arrange it, or you are dealing with it yourself, we will attend. Say who is instructing the work when you ring.

Question 2

There are five of us in a student house and the kitchen sink keeps blocking.

Accepted Answer

Five people through one sink puts a great deal of fat and food waste into a single branch. That builds into a solid deposit rather than a loose clog, which is why plungers stop working on it. Jetting clears that sort of lining properly where the pipe suits the method.

Question 3

Our block of flats has a communal drain. Who authorises the visit?

Accepted Answer

Whoever manages the block, so usually the freeholder, the housing provider or a managing agent. We can attend and assess, but somebody with authority over communal pipework needs to be instructing it. Raise that on the call and it saves everybody a wasted trip.

Question 4

Wet wipes keep being flushed. Can that be cleared?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and it is one of the most frequent causes seen in shared housing. Wipes do not break down, they knit together with fat into a mass that sits at the first bend. Clearing it is routine. Keeping them out of the toilet afterwards is the part we cannot do for you.

Question 5

The same house blocks every few months. Why?

Accepted Answer

Recurring blockages in shared housing are usually about what is going into the pipe rather than the pipe itself, though the assessment will say if there is something about that run holding material back. Where a house changes tenants often, the pattern tends to repeat with each new group.

Question 6

Does somebody have to be at home?

Accepted Answer

Someone needs to give access to the property and to any gated area where the chambers sit. In a shared house that can be any of the tenants. Nobody has to supervise the work itself, and you will be told what was found and what was done before the team leaves.

Question 7

Can somebody come out in the evening?

Accepted Answer

The phone is answered at any hour, which matters in a house full of people who are out all day. When somebody can actually attend depends on what is already in the diary, so ring 07871 247999 and the current availability will be confirmed with you on the call.

Question 8

I manage several properties around Greenstead.

Accepted Answer

Then say so on the call and give all the addresses that are affected. Where more than one property on the same run is backing up, that changes where the assessment starts, because the obstruction is likely to be downstream of all of them rather than in any one house.

Question 9

The gully outside the back door is overflowing with grey water.

Accepted Answer

That is waste from a sink or a washing machine that cannot get away, so the obstruction sits at or below that gully. It is a common estate call and often a straightforward one, cleared at the gully itself or in the chamber the run passes through next.

Question 10

Something is draining slowly but nothing has overflowed yet.

Accepted Answer

That is a good moment to ring rather than a reason to wait. A run that is merely slow is easier to deal with than one that has surcharged across a garden, and the assessment can find the restriction before it turns into a mess anyone has to walk through.

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Communal chambers between blocks

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