Gordon Lundie

Expert insights and updates from JSL Drainage Glasgow

18th June 2019

Returning home to a god awful smell

We received a call from a customer last week who had just returned from holiday.  The taxi dropped them off from the airport, the got to their front door, opened it and were greeted with an unearthly smell.   We…
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28th May 2019

How to stop a smelly drain

To answer the question ‘how to stop a smelly drain’ we first need to figure out what can cause a smelly drain.   There are many causes of a smelly blocked drain.  If it is in the kitchen, it can…
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24th May 2019

Sweetcorn Issues

Next time you pour things down the kitchen sink, think about what is actually going down the drain hole and where it goes next.   We say this because a new blocked drain call out this week was because of…
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21st May 2019

Drainage Rubble Trouble

You might think that during dry sunny days like we have been having recently, that outdoor drainage issues would be few and far between.  Hahaha oh how we laugh.  When you have worked in the drainage industry as long as…
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16th May 2019

CCTV Drain Surveys – what is it?

For those that follow our news stories on a regular basis, you will have occassionally heard us talk about CCTV drain surveys.  But what are they? CCTV may sound like a very technical service and when you think about it…
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9th May 2019

A nice and friendly welcome

We don’t know how often you have to call tradesman around Glasgow.  Maybe you need a painter or decorator so you call one then.  And maybe sometime you need a boiler fixed, in which case you call a gas engineer…
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8th May 2019

Waste water under the floor

When a drain gets blocked, it is not always a guarantee that the resident will know about it.  That is because sometimes, the blocked drain can cause a joint section in the drain pipe to leak.  And a lot of…
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7th May 2019

An Easter Lunch Blocked Drain

We have been a bit busy recently (what with all the blocked drains in Glasgow that we need to fix) so this latest story is a bit behind schedule.  During the Easter Weekend, so many families across Glasgow come together…
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25th April 2019

It isn’t always fun and games

Being a drainage expert isn’t always about plungers and jet blasters.  There are times when being Glasgow’s leading independent drainage company means that we really have to sweat it out.  And that is exactly what we just had to go…
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24th April 2019

Getting close to 100

You might be reading the title of todays post and thinking we are talking about our age.  No we are not about to turn 100.  We are getting closer but we are all still fairly young.   What we are…
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