Drain Cleaning in Alvalade

About our service in Alvalade

A very common call here comes from a bathroom that was modernised. When a bath is taken out and a low shower tray goes in, the new waste often has less fall than the old one and a shallower trap, and it silts up with hair and shower gel far more readily. The owner notices water standing around their feet, assumes it is normal for a shallow tray, and only calls when the water reaches the door. That is a fixture-level blockage, usually within reach, and it is solved properly by clearing the trap and the short branch rather than by pouring something into it every few weeks. The second Alvalade pattern belongs to the yards. These blocks were laid out around planted logradouros, and the plane trees and jacarandas that shade them fill the ground-level gullies with leaf litter each autumn. Once the trap is sealed, rainwater and the waste from ground-floor kitchens have nowhere to go, and the rés-do-chão flat is the one that suffers, which brings up the fact that catches out most apartment dwellers: a blockage anywhere in a shared system floods the lowest opening, regardless of who caused it. Where the obstruction sits also decides whose responsibility it is, since your own trap and branch are yours while a common stack or a yard drain belongs to the condomínio. We establish the location and put it in writing; the decision belongs to the building. Things that help before we arrive: stop using the fixture, take the plug out so nothing else drains into the standing water, and leave the caustic products where they are. In pipework of this age they attack joints without shifting a hair plug, and they make the water dangerous to handle. We start by opening the trap, because that answers the question in a good number of cases, then rod or use a drum machine on the branch, with the floor sheeted and a wet vacuum on hand. If a run turns out to be broken or badly sloped rather than blocked, we tell you what we found rather than clearing the same fault twice a year.

What an Alvalade drainage visit covers:

Services Included

• Unblocking shower trays, baths and washbasins
• Unblocking WCs and clearing the branch to the stack
• Clearing logradouro and yard gullies full of leaf litter
• Video camera inspection when a fixture keeps blocking
• Repair of damaged or poorly fallen waste pipework

Areas We Serve

We work in the Bairro de Alvalade, along Avenida da Igreja, in Roma, around Campo Grande and up by São João de Brito, and we can usually park close enough to bring the machine to the door.

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