Drain Cleaning in Alfama

About our service in Alfama

The pipework behind these walls is old and often improvised. Stoneware, cast iron and lengths added during one refurbishment or another meet at joints that have lost their smoothness, and the runs take turns around structural walls that were never meant to carry drainage. Anything fibrous stops at the first rough collar it meets. Wet wipes are the usual culprit, because they simply do not break down in water and gather into a mat that then traps grease, and in buildings with short-let flats above and a tasca at street level the same stack receives both the wipes and the kitchen fat. That combination is what turns a slow flush into a stopped one within days. The consequence surprises people who have recently moved here. Waste does not back up into the flat that caused the problem: it rises to the lowest opening it can find, which is usually a ground-floor WC, a floor gully in a back room, or the drain in a saguão. Neighbours who have done nothing wrong are the ones mopping. It also matters for responsibility, because the answer depends entirely on where the obstruction sits. A trap or a branch inside your own flat is yours. The shared stack is the condomínio's business. Beyond the building it belongs to the municipal network. We establish which it is on site, testing each fixture in turn and using a camera down the branch when what we see does not match what you describe. Before we get there, stop flushing and stop running taps into the affected fixture, and please do not reach for caustic soda. In pipework of this age it attacks the joints, it will not dissolve a wipe plug, and it leaves us working in a hazard. We sheet the room, clear with hand rods and a drum machine sized to the pipe, and vacuum the standing water rather than letting it spread over old tiles. Where the camera reveals a cracked or displaced length, we show you and talk about repair.

What a call-out in Alfama typically involves:

Services Included

• Unblocking toilets, washbasins and kitchen sinks in older flats
• Clearing floor gullies and saguão drains after a backup
• Sewer clearing where a ground-floor fixture has flooded
• Video camera inspection of branches and short runs
• Repair of cracked, displaced or badly patched waste pipe

Areas We Serve

We work around Castelo, Mouraria, Sé, Santa Apolónia and the Escadinhas de São Miguel. Where the van cannot get close, we park at the nearest legal point and carry the equipment in, so tell us the number of flights when you message us.

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