Güngören Manhole Unclogging

Mud seeping from the edge of the cover, a wet ring around it when there has been no rain, or a ground-floor sink backing up are often signs of a blockage building up in the manhole. Telling us over the phone or on WhatsApp which of these you are seeing helps the team decide where to start. We first talk through the cause with you and explain it, and then we clear the drain. Once the manhole is open, the outlet pipe is checked with a camera, which also shows how likely the problem is to come back.

On the Merter side of Güngören, business centres, shops and showroom floors sit alongside workshops tucked into basement levels. In the shared toilets of business centres, paper towels and wet wipes go from the toilet into the shared stack and knot together, while tea or coffee grounds from office kitchenettes turn to sludge in the sink bends. In basement workshops that sit below the street sewer line, backflow during rainy weather shows up on these floors first.

In the rest of the district, five and six-storey blocks stand side by side along narrow streets, with shops on the ground floors. Old shared stacks collect kitchen grease coming from the upper floors in their lower sections. In newer multi-storey residences, student flats and dormitory-style buildings, many people using the same line heavily makes the manhole fill up faster. A blockage during weekday working hours also stops business, so in these buildings it is often best to schedule the work outside working hours.