Bahçelievler Manhole Unclogging

We see this situation often in Bahçelievler's older buildings and in flats above shops. First we check the water level inside the manhole and which pipe is feeding it and which one should be carrying the water away, so we can pinpoint where the blockage is. After clearing the line with a motorised drain snake, we wash the chamber with high-pressure water jetting and remove larger items with long-handled tools. We finish by checking the outlet line with a CCTV drain camera, which also shows whether the problem is likely to come back.

Most of Bahçelievler consists of apartment buildings put up between the 1970s and the 1990s. In the older buildings in Siyavuşpaşa, Soğanlı and Kocasinan, cast iron and first-generation PVC drain pipes are still used side by side. Sediment builds up at the joints and the line narrows over time. A family living in an older building may notice mud seeping from the manhole cover after rain, or the shower on the ground floor draining slowly. In buildings like these, most of the problem sits in the build-up inside the pipe leaving the manhole.

In buildings renovated through urban regeneration, the new building line does not always meet the old street connection properly, and on camera this mismatch shows up as a step or a reverse slope. If the bathroom floor in the flat you have just moved into has been raised, the fall of the drain may have been disturbed, and water can rise to the drain opening and stand there. In mixed-use buildings around Şirinevler square and Yenibosna, a blockage in a shop can quickly become a problem for the whole building. That is why it helps to see on camera where the shop line joins the residential shared stack before doing anything else, and it avoids unnecessary work.