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“Ah,” Dai said, pointing at the monitor. “The classic ‘FOG’ clog.”
The most dramatic case, however, was at "The Ironbridge Spoon." The foul smell was accompanied by a worrying sign: water bubbling up from a manhole cover in the pub’s car park. This was a blocked main drain—shared by the pub and three neighbouring cottages. A collapse. blocked drains telford
The cure was high-pressure water jetting—a lance that blasted the pipe clean with water at over 3,000 PSI. Sarah learned a valuable lesson: the bin is for fats, not the sink. “Ah,” Dai said, pointing at the monitor
Meanwhile, Bill’s slow-draining bath was a different mystery. The water didn’t just drain slowly; sometimes, it would back up into the shower tray an hour later. Dai’s camera went down the old clay pipe under Bill’s garden and found the culprit: a dense, dark web of thin, wiry roots. A collapse
“Fats, Oils, and Grease,” Dai explained. “When you pour bacon fat down the sink or rinse a pan with oil, it’s liquid when hot. But as soon as it hits the cold pipe under your kitchen, it solidifies. Over months, it builds up like concrete. It catches food scraps, coffee grounds, and eventually, you get this.”