Drain Cleaning in Campo de Ourique

About our service in Campo de Ourique

Two fixtures generate most of the calls here. The first is the kitchen sink. In flats of this vintage the waste from the sink takes a short horizontal run before turning down into the stack, and that horizontal length is where used cooking oil does its damage. Poured down warm it seems to disappear; a metre along, cooled, it clings to the wall of the pipe and thickens with every wash-up until the bore is a fraction of what it was. The second is the washbasin, where the culprit is more mundane: hair bound into a plug by soap scum inside a bottle trap that has probably never been opened. The neighbourhood's other particularity is commercial. The streets around the Mercado and Rua Ferreira Borges are full of small kitchens, and where one sits on the ground floor of a residential building its grease enters the same stack that serves the flats above. Nobody upstairs sees this happening until the column narrows enough to matter, and then the flat that floods is the lowest one, not the one whose habits caused it. That is also why the question of who deals with it has a real answer that depends on location: your own trap and branch are yours, the shared stack is a condomínio matter, and anything past the building line is the municipal network's. We determine which on site and put it in writing for you to take to the administration. Before we arrive, keep the fixture out of use and skip the drain unblocker. On old cast iron and stoneware it does more harm than good and it will not touch congealed fat. We open the trap first because it costs nothing to check, then rod or use a drum machine on the branch, with a wet vacuum ready and the floor sheeted. When a sink blocks repeatedly after being cleared, the underlying cause is often a fat-lined pipe or a run laid with too little fall, and we would rather explain that than keep coming back to the same trap.

What we usually do on a Campo de Ourique call:

Services Included

• Unblocking kitchen sinks lined with congealed cooking fat
• Clearing washbasin bottle traps packed with hair and soap
• Unblocking WCs and shower wastes in older flats
• Video camera inspection of the branch to the stack
• Repair of corroded or leaking sections of waste pipe

Areas We Serve

We work in Prazeres, Santo Condestável, the streets around Rua Ferreira Borges and the Mercado de Campo de Ourique, and up towards Amoreiras. Tell us which floor you are on, since most buildings here have no lift and the kit comes up on foot.

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