With every shower you take, you wash away loose strands of hair that would otherwise have fallen out naturally or been brushed out. While the pressure of a full bathtub of water rushing down the drain hole can help quickly remove this; the slower trickle of water that flows down a shower drain can make it easier for loose hair to catch and collect around the drain hole. If you don’t clean this out regularly then it can lead to blockages.
This of course seems obvious. But what a lot of homeowners in Glasgow DON’T KNOW is that while this can be easily fixed, it can help to create secondary blockages further down the drain pipe. The slow water trickle that is created by loose hair strands can make it harder to keep the drain clear further down the pipe. Far enough away in fact that a plunger simply can’t generate enough pressure to fix it.
And that is exactly what happened with a customer in the West End of Glasgow this week.
They had been noticing a slow draining of shower water and had just assumed it was the loose hair that had built up around the drain hole. But when they removed it – the problem didn’t go away.
And there is only so long anyone can tolerate having a shower while standing in a cold pool of dirty water.
Enter JSL Drainage. We turned up (as we always do) on time and quickly got to work. A CCTV drain inspection found that there was in fact a blockage further down the drain pipe which we easily removed using out pressure jet cleaner. It cleared out the drain and we did a couple of tests to make sure that it hadn’t simply been pushed along a bit and then reformed.
Another customer done and another blocked shower drain fixed.
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