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Preventing Blocked Drains Caused by Tree Roots in Pipes

Tree roots invading your pipes can be a real hassle. If you notice sluggish drainage or hear gurgling noises, it’s a warning that problems may be on the horizon. Addressing tree root intrusion promptly is vital to prevent expensive repairs.

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Reasons Why Your Drainage Keeps Blocking

Let’s face it, blocked drains are often an inconvenient mystery. As soon as you see bubbling and slow water drainage, coupled with a gurgling sound, you know you’re in for trouble. It is so important to not let your blocked drain go untreated.

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How to Keep Your Stormwater Drains Clean

Most people don’t tend to think about their stormwater drain system, and for good reason. When severe storm events occur, rainwater drains are often forced to their maximum capacity. Learn about how you can properly maintain your stormwater drain systems.

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Clogged Toilet

Why you have a Clogged Toilet & How to Prevent it

Dealing with a clogged toilet should not be something you have to deal with on a regular basis. Be aware of the main causes of a clogged toilet and learn how to prevent it from happening.

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Why You Should Avoid Chemical Drain Cleaners

While an inexpensive store bought drain cleaner may seem like a fast solution to your blocked drain, there is a risk that the problem only gets worse. Chemical drain cleaners have the potential to cause a number of issues inside your pipes, and cost you more money in the long run. 

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Do You Have A Blocked Waste Pipe Outside?

Blocked pipes are an issue nobody wants to deal with, but if you don’t have it resolved quickly, you could find yourself with even bigger problems. 

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Can Wet Wipes Block Drains?

One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to plumbing is that you can flush wet wipes down the toilet without issues.

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Does Bamboo Toilet Paper Block Drains?

While bamboo toilet paper follows a very similar manufacturing process to regular toilet paper, bamboo-based products are considered to have more benefits not only for the environment but also for the user.

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Do Coffee Grounds Block Drains?

Many people believe that coffee grounds will actually help clear your drain or remove a bad smell, but this could not be further from the truth.

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How To Remove Tree Roots From Drain Pipes

There are few things worse than discovering a leaking pipe in your home.

 

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Find Out What’s Clogging Your Drain

Blocked drains are one of the most frustrating things to encounter in your home.

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Drain Clogged With Hair?

When it comes to your household drains, the presence of a blockage is usually not too hard to identify.

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Do You Think You Have a Broken Drain Pipe Under Your Slab?

Pipe problems can be a matter of ‘out of sight, out of mind’, particularly when it comes to pipes running under concrete slabs. These are completely inaccessible form the surface, which means that by the time a problem becomes obvious, a significant amount of damage has already been done.

 

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Why Does My Shower Drain Smell?

Shower drains ensure that water is able to drain into the sewer system, leaving your shower dry and functional for future use.

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Outside Drain Blocked With Mud?

Your home’s outside drains serve an extremely important purpose – ensuring water moves away from your property in the case of heavy rainfall. This prevents any damage or flooding occurring, and protects your home and your neighbourhood.
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Is Your Storm Water Clogged With Soil?

Your home’s storm water drain is there to direct water runoff away from your property in the event of heavy rainfall. The system typically involves a downpipe running from your roof to a series of underground pipes, which funnel excess water into street gutters.

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Are Leaves Blocking Your Drains?

During the Autumn and Winter months, it’s a common issue to have leaves blocking drains. Our outdoor pipes and drainage systems are an important part preventing flooding around your home.

 

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What to Do When Your Bathtub Is Clogged

Is your bathtub not draining, or draining slowly? It’s likely that you have a clogged drain. This might seem like a small issue at first, but if the issue isn’t fixed, a clogged bathtub can cause problems to both your health and the structural elements of your home.

 

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Best Storm Water Drainage Solutions

If your stormwater drain is not working properly, you may find that your yard is flooding and your gutters are overflowing.

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Is Your Storm Drain Blocked?

Blocked stormwater drains can cause problems for your home and surrounding areas.

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No Dig Pipe Repair

As the main conduits for moving waste water and excess rainfall away from your home, pipes are central to your home’s drainage system.

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Sewer Line Replacement – Is It Safe?

When it comes to your pipes, it can be difficult to know which repair approach is best for your property, price range and needs.

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Pipe Relining vs. Replacement

In short, sewer lines are the pipes that move waste away from the drains in a building. Most homes have a main sewer line in the form of a large-diameter pipe, which is linked to your sinks, toilets and showers through connecting branches.

 
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Should I Get Pipe Relining?

People often wonder ‘does sewer pipe relining work?’ The answer isn’t always simple. The possibility of relining can depend on many factors, including the location of the pipes.

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What Is Pipe Relining?

Pipe relining, also known as drain relining, is an innovative and cost-effective solution to a historically expensive problem.

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Is Grease Blocking Your Drain?

Most people don’t realise this is happening until it starts causing problems.

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What Can’t You Flush?

There are a lot of misconceptions about what you can and can’t flush down the toilet, but there’s a simple way to remember: if you have to ask about it, it’s probably not a good idea to flush.

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The Easy Way to Clear a Blocked Sewer Pipe

Stumped about how to clear a blocked sewer pipe? No worries! Whip out this cheat-sheet next time you’re having plumbing problems.

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What To Do If Your Toilet Is Blocked With Paper

What may begin with your toilet bowl draining slower than normal, may turn into your toilet bowl overflowing onto your bathroom floor if left untreated. 

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Broken Underground Drain Pipe

There are a number of factors that can contribute to underground pipe damage, including soil erosion, tree roots and corrosion. Events such as earth tremors can disrupt the ground and place pressure on pipes, causing them to crack.

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Hydro Jetting For Pipes

Hydro jetting services allow for powerful, pinpoint removal of blockages, without the use of chemicals or cleaning agents; the only resource used is clean water. This means your pipes will end up cleaner than ever before, without any chemical residue or odours.

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Blocked Storm Water Drainage

Storm water drains are designed to funnel excess water away from your property, so if you’ve noticed pools of water collecting around your house or yard, there’s a good chance you’ve got a blockage on your hands.

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Boundary Trap Replacement

If you’re experiencing problems with your sewer, boundary trap breakage or blocks could be responsible. The team at Drainpro is highly experienced in replacing boundary traps on properties around Sydney.

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Reasons Why Your Toilet Keeps Blocking

Of all the plumbing mishaps to occur around the home, a blocked toilet has to be one of the absolute worst for a homeowner to handle, especially when it takes you by surprise.

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Drain Camera Inspection

Get the Whole Picture with a CCTV Pipe Inspection

If you’re experiencing problems with your sewer, boundary trap breakage or blocks could be responsible. The team at Drainpro is highly experienced in replacing boundary traps on properties around Sydney.

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Tree Roots Blocking Your Drain?

Whilst trees have countless benefits for the environment, they are unfortunately the number one cause of underground pipe dislodgements, damage, deterioration and blockage in Sydney homes.

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What To Do If Your Sewerage Is Blocked

What To Do If Your Sewerage Is Blocked

As drainage specialists, this is something we hear all too often. The fact is, there’s no single, catch-all solution for fixing a blocked sewage system. The cause, location and severity of the blockage all play into how the problem should be dealt with.

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