If you live in a large city, it can be difficult to find a reliable drain maintenance company. Drains get blocked more frequently in urban areas, so the need for the services of a drainage expert will increase.

If you have a blocked drain it may need jetting. Drain jetting in London is unfortunately a common occurrence, but if you have a blocked drain, it will need to be unblocked quickly and professionally. So, if you choose a reliable drain cleaning company, you will be able to call them when your drain gets blocked and they should respond quickly to your problem.

The drain jetting company will usually remove the blockage using a high pressure jet of water that is directed down the drain. This will break up the blockage and any debris will usually be removed from the nearest an inspection cover. They will then try to determine the cause of the blockage by using a CCTV camera down the drainage system so they can check the structural integrity of the pipe. Blockages can be caused by a few things and damage to the pipe is one of these reasons.

If you have a blocked drain, drain jetting in London can really help.

We usually bring you news form the UK, but we thought this sewer news article from Alberta in Canada warranted inclusion.

Construction engineers in the city of Edmonton, Alberta have discovered a seventy million year old fossil of a dinosaur while digging a new sewer system in the city. The city is quite famous regarding dinosaur discoveries, with two dinosaurs already being named after the city in which they were discovered, they Edmontosaurus and the Edmontonia. And, the new dinosaur find is not related to a single species. It is believed that the bones already unearthed are from two distinctly different species, the duck billed Edmontosaurus and an Albertosaurus.

It is uncertain when sewer works will be allowed to continue, but with both finds carrying immense importance, it is estimated to be some time before work starts on the sewer again.

If you have a drainage problem at home and your waste pipe needs to be excavated, there is little likelihood that you will find dinosaur bones under the drainage system. However, drain maintenance experts will be able to rectify your problem quickly and restore your drains waste carrying capacity.

A local post office in Waverton is feeling the pinch after a road had to be closed due to a sewer collapse.

The first problems noted on Moor Lane in Waverton included sinking tarmac, but eventually the problem worsened until the highways department had to close the road and cordon off the area. The sinking was investigated and found to be a collapsed sewer.

The local post office has seen custom halve since the road closure. And it is estimated that the work needed to complete the sewer repair will take another two weeks.

Sharon Senior, who owns the post office stated:

“We couldn’t believe it. On the Friday when the road was closed it was just dead, and it has been dead all week. We are really struggling now because people aren’t driving past and are just going elsewhere.

“Our business usually drops during the holidays, but this year it had been quite steady, but this is crippling us.”

Sharon first made the council aware of the problem over a week ago but it has taken until now to find the cause of the problem.

A United Utilities spokesperson stated:

“We have established that work will need to be undertaken at two points on the road, one outside the post office and another further down the road. The work is expected to be completed in two weeks. We do obviously sympathise with the owners of the post office. We will do our upmost to get the work done as quickly as possible. It is expected to last two weeks.”

A sewer system has been given a clean bill of health after a drainage engineer checked the system when a large hole appeared in a road in Southport.

A resident reported the hole in Cambridge Road in the town last Friday. It was first thought the hole signified a burst water pipe or even worse a sewer collapse. United Utilities were called to investigate the problem, but their drain inspection engineer referred the matter back to the local council’s highway department.

The United Utilities spokesperson stated:

“We have had an engineer on site and there was no evidence that there was anything wrong at all with the sewer system. He referred it back to Sefton Council.”

Sefton council will now make repairs to the road so it can be opened as soon as possible.

There are some occasions when a sewer is the cause of a collapse in the road, but it is not always the case. If you have a problem with sinking in your drive or garden, it’s always worth giving drain maintenance experts a ring to check the drainage system. They will perform a CCTV survey and let you know if the drain is the cause of the problem.

There are quite a few things that can cause a drain blockage, but perhaps the one that is becoming more and more common is root intrusion.

As drainage pipes age, the seals between the pipes lose their integrity and can be broken easily. This means that if there is land movement or pressure on the drainage system, the pipes can become dislodged and cause drainage problems.

Roots from plants can take advantage of the lack of integrity between the sections of drainage pipes and find their way into the drainage system. And when they have found an easy and frequent supply of water, they can multiply quickly and cause further problems to the drain.

Roots can completely block a drain and hence stop the flow of waste water. If this happens at your property, you will have to get in touch with a drainage expert before the waste overflows into your garden and worse still, into your property.

Drain cleaning and maintenance experts have all the tools necessary to remove a blockage caused by roots. They will use a spinning root cutter to cut away the roots to the diameter of the pipe and then suggest a liner patch repair, to stop the roots re-infiltrating the drainage pipe network.