Fatih Sewer Line Renewal

Cantley works in homes and businesses across all 39 districts of Istanbul, including Fatih. The job starts with an inspection at the address: a camera is run through the pipe and the distance from the entry point to the damaged section is measured. You watch the footage together, and you learn in advance which section will be replaced and where the floor will be opened.

The oldest built-up part of Fatih lies inside the old city walls. The buildings vary widely, from the terraced houses on the slopes of Balat and Fener to the hotels and commercial buildings of Aksaray and Laleli. In many of them the plumbing was renewed in different periods by different tradespeople, so old cast iron and clay pipes sit next to newer sections. In terraced houses the drain sometimes runs through a neighbour's basement, which is why the point to be opened has to be pinned down with the camera.

In the guest houses around Sultanahmet, the restaurant kitchens of Kumkapı and the historic hans around the Grand Bazaar, a problem often comes from several causes stacking up. In the hans the drains of dozens of shops join into a single line, and in hotels the waste from many bathrooms gathers in the same shared stacks. Because historic walls and floors often cannot be broken, locating the fault with a camera and opening only the necessary point is, in most cases in Fatih, the only workable method.