Blocked Drains — Telford [new]
The cure was high-pressure water jetting—a lance that blasted the pipe clean with water at over 3,000 PSI. Sarah learned a valuable lesson: the bin is for fats, not the sink.
“Fats, Oils, and Grease,” Dai explained. “When you pour bacon fat down the sink or rinse a pan with oil, it’s liquid when hot. But as soon as it hits the cold pipe under your kitchen, it solidifies. Over months, it builds up like concrete. It catches food scraps, coffee grounds, and eventually, you get this.” blocked drains telford
For Bill, the thought of digging up his prize-winning rose garden was a tragedy. But Dai offered a solution: trenchless pipe relining. A resin-saturated liner was inserted into the old clay pipe, inflated, and cured into a new, smooth, joint-less pipe inside the old one. The roses were saved. The cure was high-pressure water jetting—a lance that
Meanwhile, Bill’s slow-draining bath was a different mystery. The water didn’t just drain slowly; sometimes, it would back up into the shower tray an hour later. Dai’s camera went down the old clay pipe under Bill’s garden and found the culprit: a dense, dark web of thin, wiry roots. “When you pour bacon fat down the sink
They were all facing the same silent enemy: blocked drains.