Services for Drainage
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Drainage
Services
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Products
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FAQ
Areas covered under this Category are as follows:
- Above Ground Water Storage
- Below Ground Water Storage
- CCTV Survey
- Cracked Drains
- Emergency
- Jet Drains
- Manhole
- Remove Roots from Drainage
- Repair/New Drainage
- Sewage Problems
- Sewage Treatment Plant
- Unblock Bath/Sink/ Shower
- Unblock Drains
- Unblock Toilet
- I am looking for an expert - Register to Request a Service
- I am an expert - Register to Provide a Service
Land Drainage Contractors Association - www.ldca.org
National Sewerage Association - www.sewerage.org
Siphonic Roof Drainage Association - www.siphonic-roof-drainage.co.uk
BPEC - www.bpec.org.uk
- ACO Building Drainage
- Allerton
- Althon
- Alumasc
- American Standard
- Armitage Shanks
- Blackhat
- Blanco
- Buildbase
- Caro Group
- Combined Harvesters
- CPM Group
- Delta Membrane Systems
- Drainage Systems Online
- Durapipe
- Flexseal
- Franke
- Gloucester Composites
- Guttermaster
- Hanson Formpave
- InStar
- Kedel
- Mantair
- Marley Plumbing & Drainage
- Marsh Industries
- Naylor Drainage
- Nicholson Plastics
- Plastivan
- Plumb Centre
- Plumbase
- Polypipe Civils
- Polypipe Terrain
- Purus
- Rainclear Systems
- RainPulse
- Raintec
- RDL
- Saniflo
- SDS
- Sky Garden Greenroofs
- Source Control Systems
- Stanton Bonna
- Titan Environmental
- Tuscan Foundry
- Wallbarn
- WPL
A to B
- Biodegradability: ability of a substance to decompose without the need for chemicals.
- Borehole: a borehole is a hole bored into the ground, either by hand or using mechanical means as to sample soils at greater depths.
C to D
- Cess pit: a holding tank for wastewater storage. No treatment of the wastewater occurs in the cess pit.
- Cesspool: a simple method of drain comprising a holding tank that needs frequent emptying.
- Communication pipe: that part of the pipe which conveys water from the mains to a house.
- Discharge consent: a legal document which gives permission to discharge and sets out the terms under which the discharge occurs.
- Disconnection: This is when a separation of a customer's supply from the public water network occurs.
- Downpipe shoe: the angled end-piece of the downpipe directing water into a gully.
- Drain rodding: to unblock drains with steel rods.
E to F
- Electro-mechanical drainage cleaning: flexible steel cables fitted with blades and cutters cut through debris, hardened drainage deposits or tree roots.
- Foul flooding: flooding from a sewer.
- Foul sewer: a sewer conveying sewage excluding rainwater or surface water.
G to H
- Grey water: any water that has been used in a building, except water from toilets.
- Ground heave: swelling of clay sub-soil due to the presence of moisture:
- Groundwater: water occurring in permeable underground strata, e.g. chalk and sandstone.
- Gulley: is an opening into which rain is collected which then enters a drain.
- Hardcore: The sub-base material for concrete work, usually made of broken brick or stone
- Hardness: characteristic of waters containing dissolved calcium and magnesium salts.
- High pressure water jetting: water jets make water into cutting jets which strip deposits from pipe walls. Used to flush out drainage waste and restore flow.
I to J
- Inspection chamber (man hole): access to a drain comprising a chamber with the drainage channel at its base and a removable cover at ground level.
K to L
M to N
- Macerator: pumping systems to enable you to add a toilet.
- Mains: pipes which carry treated drinking water.
- Meter: a device for measuring the quantity and flow rate of water.
O to P
- Outfall: the site of discharge of a water (may contain other materials) from a pipe.
Q to R
- Rainwater harvesting: the collection of rainwater from the roof of a building and storing it for reuse.
- Rodding eye: An opening in a drainage pipe through which rods can enter to clear a blockage
S to T
- Sedimentation: the process by where solids are removed from sewage by passing it through a tank at a rate that allows the solids to settle to the floor to form sludge.
- Septic tank: a type of tank in which the sludge is retained long enough for the organic content to undergo anaerobic digestion. Used in houses which are too isolated for connection to a foul sewer.
- Sewage (or wastewater): water-borne wastes from domestic uses of water, derived from households or similar uses in trade and industry
- Sewage sludge: a by-product arising from the treatment of sewage or from septic tanks or similar installations.
- Sewer: a pipe carrying wastewater or sewage discharged into it from house drains.
- Soakaway: a below ground aggregate channel to disperse water.
- Sub-soil: soil lying immediately below the top-soil.
- Supply pipe: that portion of pipe which carries water from the mains to a house.
- Surface water: the run-off from paved and unpaved roads, buildings and land.
- Tanker jetting: when cleaning larger drainage sewers and culverts.
- Trunk sewer: a sewer which receives many tributary branches or discharges from other large sewers.
- Trunk water main: the water mains that are usually found crossing fields to serve the distribution mains.
U to V
W to X
- Water drainage search: this shows whether the property is connected to a public or private water supply; how the property is billed for the water and wastewater charges; it is connected to a public sewer or septic tank or other private disposal facilities and whether the property is close to or is affected by water mains or public sewers.
- Water table: upper surface of the saturated zone in the ground.
- Water transfer: system where drinking water or raw water is moved around a region.
Y to Z
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