John Wall
Drainage Service Ltd

Summer = heat, and when the temperature starts to rise your drains may also start to smell. Everyone will have encountered smelly drains as some point in their lives, to ensure you avoid any blockages is a sure-fire way to prevent smelly drains ruining your summer.

Ensuring you have the correct underground drainage system in place is a great place to start, from pipes to chambers and everything else. Reducing blockages starts in the home and above ground, having a reliable system in place will also help keep drains clean and working properly. Want to find out more? Call us now on 0151 495 1929

As a homeowner you will be familiar with maintaining your home every now and again, the same applies for your #septic tank should you have one.

Under new legislation, if your #septic tank discharges to surface water, you will need to install a small #sewage treatment plant which cleans the liquid before it goes into the river or stream.  This must be completed before 1^st January 2020, or when you sell the property, whichever is soonest.

Your #septic tank must be maintained properly.  If the tank becomes a problem for other members of the public, your local council or authority can and will get involved, insisting that it be properly cleaned.  If you have a permit for your tank, this will also outline set conditions that you’ll have to make sure you meet.

To meet these conditions, GOV.UK guidance explains that you should make sure the septic tank is emptied at least once a year by a registered waste carrier, here at #John Wall Drainage Service we are able to provide this service for you.

For further details on how to correctly maintain your septic tank and for your FREE quotation please contact our Sales Team on 0151 495 1929.      

If you require any drainage service works during the School Holiday period, contact us now on 0151 495 1929

Let’s be honest – the topic of #gutter cleaning is far from being a fascinating subject. Most people would not even think about looking after their gutter system until they stop working properly.

The truth is, #gutters on your home or business serve a critical service.

Clogged gutters are the number one cause of basement water problems in your home or business.  #Roof water overflows and accumulates around the foundation.  If this happens, basement leaks may be moments away and excess water against the foundation can weaken the footings and lead to cracks, something you NEVER want to happen.

For further information or if you would like a quotation contact us on 0151 495 1929.

Maintaining your #cesspit is essential, not just for your household but for your local council authority too.

A common problem with#cesspits is overflowing, which can cause issues regarding cracked walls and punctures, which may lead to external leaks. Unlike #septic tanks, a #cesspit has no rudimentary treatment system, which means that whatever goes in must come out. under the public health act and water resources act your local council authority has a duty to ensure your #cesspit is in good working order, routine inspections are commonplace throughout the UK.

Do’s and Do not’s regarding cesspit maintenance

Never lift the lid of your #cesspit to check levels, inside there are a whole lot of nasty’s, make sure you have an alarm fitted within your pit.

Cesspits are often located in areas where other #sewage solutions are just not practical. Make sure your cesspit is located at least 15 metres away from any outbuilding and not less than 10 metres from any #watercourse.

Do not place heavy objects above #manhole covers.

Do not drive over any cesspit covers, especially old brick-built pits.

Here at #John Wall Drainage Service Limited we can provide you with a waste removal service, with all duty of care documentation provided. For your FREE quotation contact our Sales Team on 0151 495 1929.

Playgrounds, car parks and large roof areas have to deal with large volumes of rain water often in a short space of time, therefore if gullies, road gullies and linear channel drains are not maintained and cleaned, the water run off cannot make it into the below ground drainage system and you get localised flooding. A natural build up of silt and debris over time will cause blockages in grids and gullies situated in playgrounds, however, aluminium cans, crisp packets, plastic bottles and tennis balls are also common place, the silt from large hard standing can also build up with the below ground drainage system leading to restricted flow. Here at John Wall Drainage Service Limited we can arrange a planned preventative maintenance schedule, where we can come and clean the drainage for you once or twice a year (depending on the size of the School), remove all the debris from the drainage and the high pressure water the drainage to ensure it is all running clear and free. For further information please contact us on 0151 495 1929.

When carrying out building work at a premises, such as having an extension built, it is essential to have a detailed knowledge of the location of the #drainage system below ground. Our qualified Operators can complete drain pipe locating service, mapping all drainage  and providing all the information required for planning permission, such as depth of drainage and layout. 

For more information on our services please call #0151 495 1929

Blocked drains, surprise floods or even just unpleasant smells, can cost your business time and money.

A well planned preventative maintenance contract can help you to protect your property and business from unneccsary damage and disruption.

#John Wall Drainage Service Limited undertake #planned preventative maintenance for many of the UK’s leading manufacturers,#property developers,#facilities managers and #local authorities.

We would firstly carry out an initial clean of your drainage to ensure all were running clear and free. We will then prepare a detailed programme of care, showing which parts of your system need cleaning on a regular basis.  Each #planned maintenance programme is tailored to your Company’s specific needs and carried out  on  a date convenient to yourselves.

Our main objective is to provide our customers with total job management  relieving the stress of administrative and logistical burdens involved in drains maintenance – let us do the hard work

For your FREE quotation, on any of our services call our Sales Team on #0151 495 1929 for further details

New septic tank rules came into force on 1 January 2015. If your septic tank system was installed and in use before 31 December 2014, it is classed as an ‘existing discharge’. If it was installed and in use after that date, it is classed as a ‘new discharge’

Rules for both existing and new septic tank discharges in England.

Septic tanks settle the solids in the sewage ad then discharge the liquid septic effluent to ground via a correctly designed and constructed drainage field – not a soakaway pit, soakaway crates, tunnels of ezy drain. These are not allowed for sewage effluent dispersal.

They cannot discharge into ditches, streams, rivers, surface water drains or any other type of watercourse. Under the new Environment Agency General BindingRules, if you have a septic tank that discharges directly to a surface water (ditch, stream,river etc) you must replace or upgrade your septic tank treament system to a full sewage treatment plant by 1 January 2020 or when you sell your property, if it is before this date. All septic tanks that currently ultimately discharge into watercourses will have to be either;

Replaced using a sewage treatment plant with full BS EN 12566-3 Certification instead or the discharge to the watercourse stopped and diverted to a drainfield, designed and constructed to the current British Standard BS6297 2007.

For further information regarding septic tanks please call us on #0151 495 1929

Playgrounds, car parks and large roof areas have to deal with large volumes of rain water often in a short space of time, therefore if #gullies, #road #gullies and #linear channel drains are not maintained and cleaned, the water run off cannot make it into the #below ground drainage system and you get localised flooding. A natural build up of silt and debris over time will cause blockages in grids and #gullies situated in playgrounds, however, aluminium cans, crisp packets, plastic bottles and tennis balls are also common place, the silt from large hard standing can also build up with the below ground drainage system leading to restricted flow. Here at#John Wall Drainage Service Limited we can arrange a #planned preventative maintenance schedule, where we can come and clean the drainage for you once or twice a year (depending on the size of the School), remove all the debris from the drainage and the high pressure water the drainage to ensure it is all running clear and free. For further information please contact us on #0151 495 1929.