Sancaktepe Pipe Unclogging

In Sancaktepe, a workshop's sink and a puddle at the basement entrance of an apartment building often point to a single problem that starts at different points on the same line. We first inspect the pipe with a camera and talk you through where the blockage sits and why it has built up there, and only then do we start the clearing work. This order avoids unnecessary force and makes clear from the start whether the problem comes from an old line or from the way it is used.

In Samandıra and Sarıgazi, most of the houses were built with one or two storeys and had extra floors added later. The same narrow pipe now carries far more wastewater, so sediment builds up quickly wherever the fall is weak. The owner of a small workshop usually notices this at the sink, because the water from the upper floors and their own drain meet on the same line. The connection from the garden to the street is long, so roots or a collapsed section can get in the way, which is why we follow the line with a camera from start to finish.

In Yenidoğan and the newly developing parts of the district, gated complexes and multi-block buildings dominate. A blockage is not expected in a new building, but in the early period mortar, plaster and packaging left behind by construction collect in the bends. When a building caretaker sees the first overflow in a ground-floor flat, they may well assume it is user error. The camera footage, however, shows the construction debris clearly, and passing it on to site management settles who is responsible. Complaints of this kind increase in the first winter after handover, in the months when heavy use begins.