Sarah’s problem was a classic modern issue. The gurgle became a complete standstill. Water sat in the sink, refusing to budge. She tried a plunger, then a bottle of thick, caustic gel from the supermarket. It cleared the water for a day, but the smell—a rotten, eggy odour—only grew worse. When she called a local Telford drainage company, the technician, a veteran named Dai, arrived with a camera on the end of a flexible rod.
Dai’s team arrived with a “call out” marked urgent. Using a powerful vacuum truck (a "hydro-vac"), they sucked the standing sewage away. Then came the CCTV camera. Deep underground, in a section of pipe laid in the 1920s, a section of the brickwork had collapsed, creating a dam of rubble and sludge.
They were all facing the same silent enemy: blocked drains. blocked drains telford
“FOG?” Sarah asked, peering at the screen. The pipe wasn’t blocked by a toy or a lost ring. It was clogged with a pale, stalactite-like mass.
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. Sarah’s problem was a classic modern issue
For Bill, the thought of digging up his prize-winning rose garden was a tragedy. But Dai offered a solution: trenchless pipe relining. A resin-saturated liner was inserted into the old clay pipe, inflated, and cured into a new, smooth, joint-less pipe inside the old one. The roses were saved.
“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.” She tried a plunger, then a bottle of
“Ah,” Dai said, pointing at the monitor. “The classic ‘FOG’ clog.”
