# Drain and Sewer Services in Çatalca

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When you call Cantley for drain unclogging in Çatalca, we come to every address, from the town centre to the most distant village, 24/7, and clear the drain without breaking or digging anything up. Çatalca is the largest district in Istanbul by area and the distances between houses are long, so before setting off the crew asks you on the phone about the symptoms and where the house is. This short conversation usually shows whether the blockage is in the line running through the garden or in a drain inside the house, and the right machines are loaded onto the vehicle.

Because Çatalca has many detached houses, the drain line usually belongs to a single household and runs a long way under the garden to reach the street connection or an inspection chamber. The owner is also usually the one who looks after the line. The crew sends the camera in from the start of the line and shows you on the screen exactly where the roots, sludge or collapsed section are, then clears the line with a motorised drain snake or high-pressure water. Your flower bed and concrete garden path stay where they are.

## Large gardens, long pipes and village kitchens

Çatalca is a district away from the crowds of the city, surrounded by fields and pasture. In the centre, around the market area, there are low-rise apartment buildings and shops. In the villages there are one or two-storey detached houses with outbuildings such as storerooms and barns beside them, and gardens full of fruit trees. Recently the number of buildings used as weekend houses and farmhouses has also grown. In most of these buildings the drain pipe runs a fair distance under the garden after leaving the house, sometimes changing direction with a few bends, and a single line may collect the wastewater of more than one building. In the apartment buildings in the centre, problems are mostly in the shared stack and in the shop drains.

Tree roots are the biggest enemy of long garden lines. Fine roots enter through the joints of old concrete or cast iron pipes and over time form a tangle inside the pipe. As the ground settles, the fall of the pipe is disturbed, and mud and sediment build up in the dips where water stands. In rainy weather, sand and soil get into the line through the garden drains. In village kitchens, food is cooked in large pots, and greasy washing-up water solidifies in the kitchen pipe as it cools. In hard winter frosts, flow is also seen slowing in outdoor pipes laid very close to the surface. We can only tell you which of these applies to your home by looking inside the line.

## From the garden line to the kitchen sink

In a village house in Çatalca or a building in the centre, the crew usually comes across one of these jobs:

### Sewer Camera Inspection (https://cantleyvidanjoraltyapi.com/en/sewer-camera-inspection/)

On the garden line that runs from the house to the road, you cannot tell from the outside where the problem is. We send the camera in from the start of the line, move forward metre by metre to find the point with roots, a crack or a collapse, and show you the footage live. That way it is clear from the start which part of the garden needs to be touched.

### Sewer Cleaning (https://cantleyvidanjoraltyapi.com/en/sewer-cleaning/)

The mud and sand that fill the line along with rainwater leave a hardened layer at the bottom of the pipe. A high-pressure water jet breaks this layer up and flushes it away, and cleans the pipe wall as well. When the job is done, we check the inside surface of the line again with the camera.

### Manhole Unclogging (https://cantleyvidanjoraltyapi.com/en/manhole-unclogging/)

When the inspection chamber or manhole in the garden overflows, we open the cover and clear the build-up inside with a machine. Nobody goes down into the manhole, because gas that collects inside is dangerous. Then we check the flow of the lines entering and leaving the manhole separately.

### Kitchen Sink Unclogging (https://cantleyvidanjoraltyapi.com/en/kitchen-sink-unclogging/)

The grease from large pots washed after a big family meal cools in the kitchen pipe, mixes with soap and forms a dough-like plug. We clear the plug with a motorised drain snake, clean the pipe with warm high-pressure water and fit the trap back firmly.

### Sewer Line Renewal (https://cantleyvidanjoraltyapi.com/en/sewer-line-renewal/)

If part of an old concrete pipe has collapsed, clearing it only helps for a short time. We measure the length of the damage with the camera and recommend renewing only that section. Instead of digging up the whole garden, the work is done in a limited area and the sound sections are left untouched.

## Frequently asked questions

### The garden line of our village house in Çatalca keeps blocking. What could be the cause?

The most common cause of a blockage that keeps coming back is tree roots getting into the line, or a pipe section whose fall has been disturbed. Roots grow back after they are cut, and mud keeps building up at a point where the fall is wrong. Looking inside the line with the camera makes it clear which one it is. For roots we talk about cutting and cleaning, and for a collapse we talk about renewing that section. We decide together which way to go by looking at the footage.

### Does the drain pipe in the garden freeze in winter in Çatalca?

An outdoor pipe laid very close to the surface and holding water can freeze in hard frost, but ice is not the cause of most blockages. If you suspect freezing, do not pour boiling water on the pipe, because the joints of plastic pipe soften. Try lukewarm water and be patient. If the flow still does not start, call us and we will check the line with the camera. In the same check we can also see whether the frozen pipe has cracked.

### Does the crew also come to villages far from the centre of Çatalca?

Yes, we come to all the villages of the district. Because directions can be hard to give on village roads, sharing your location on WhatsApp makes things easier. If you tell us during the call which drain is blocked and roughly how long the garden line of the house is, the crew sets off with the right hose and machines and no time is lost at the address. The crew also loads the camera and a long hose onto the vehicle, so they can work on long garden lines as well.

### Do we have to dig up the whole garden in Çatalca to renew the line?

No, most of the time that is not necessary. The camera is used to measure where the damaged section starts and ends, and digging is done only in that stretch. Your trees, your garden path and the sound sections of pipe stay in place. The new pipe is connected to the old line with the right fall, and when the work is finished the flow is checked again with the camera. This way the job takes less time and the layout of your garden is not disturbed.

## Write to us about your home in Çatalca

You can reach the Cantley crew by phone on 0212 923 66 85, or send your location and photos on WhatsApp. In the centre or in a village, we see your drain problem on site and solve it while explaining what we are doing.

Phone: 0212 923 66 85 (tel:+902129236685)  
WhatsApp: https://wa.me/905315687185