Drain Rat Blockers in Aylesbury

Drain Rat Blockers in Aylesbury

Aylesbury has a great deal of estate housing of every post-war vintage, and estate drainage has a feature that matters here: houses frequently share a run.

Several properties connect into one pipe before it reaches the sewer, and that changes both where a blocker goes and whose problem the defect is.

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Shared runs

Your Drain May Not Be Only Yours

Where a run serves more than one property it is, by definition, no longer a drain — it is a sewer, and since the 2011 transfer most of those are the water company's to maintain rather than the householders'.

That is genuinely good news when there is a defect, because it means reporting rather than paying. It is less convenient when you want a blocker, because a valve cannot simply be fitted into a pipe somebody else owns and other houses discharge through.

So on a shared run the blocker goes in your own branch, before it joins. That still closes the route into your property, which is the point, and it leaves the shared pipe alone.

The survey is what establishes which is which. On an estate the answer is often not what people assume from looking at the chambers.

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