Septic Tank Cleaning in Alfama

About our service in Alfama

The neighbourhood is on the municipal sewer like the rest of the city, and a working septic tank is a rare thing between the Castelo and Santa Apolónia. What does exist is something else: basements and ground floors below street level that take water every time it rains hard, cisterns and pits covered over in shared courtyards, and old foul chambers in buildings that were connected to the mains section by section, without anyone ever removing what was left behind. In these cases the tanker is there to suck out, not to empty a tank in the classic sense. And when a neighbour calls because the toilet will not drain in a building on the mains, we tell them plainly that they need drain cleaning, not a tanker. The work here is organised around access. Before accepting a booking we want three things: where the vehicle can stand, how many metres and how many steps separate that point from the cover, and whether there are gates or narrow passages in between. With that we bring the hose length needed and enough crew to run it out without blocking the street longer than necessary. In several parts of the neighbourhood the only place to stop is on a through route, which is why we arrange the work for early morning, before the visitors fill the Escadinhas de São Miguel and the streets around the Sé. There is one more thing about a historic quarter worth saying out loud: many courtyards and yards are shared between several buildings, and the buried structure causing trouble rarely belongs to one person. When that is the case, the job is better settled between neighbours than through one isolated request, and we help by putting what we found in writing for the managing agent or the owners involved. In holiday lets, where a flooded basement will not wait for the next guests, we work in a discreet vehicle and leave the space washed and aired. The waste always goes to a licensed treatment plant.

What we sort out in Alfama:

Services Included

• Vacuuming basements and ground floors flooded with waste water
• Emptying covered cisterns and pits in shared courtyards
• Cleaning old foul chambers in historic buildings
• Working by hose when the vehicle cannot reach the door
• Telling emptying from drain cleaning before anything is booked

Areas We Serve

We reach the Castelo, Mouraria, Sé, Santa Apolónia and the Escadinhas de São Miguel.

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