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Common causes of blocked drains are listed below

• Baby wipes and flushable wipes
• Poor pipe flow with a shallow gradient
• Broken pipes
• Tree roots growing into the pipework or chambers
• Grease and soap scum build up on the pipe walls restricting the flow
• Scale build up on the pipe walls 
• Hair can block smaller pipework on showers, baths and sinks 
• Sanitary products
• Long periods of time not being used can let paper dry out in the pipework

The most obvious ways to know your drains are blocked is overflowing manhole chambers or gullies around your property. Other ways to identify a blocked drain is your toilets, baths or sinks are draining slowly or not allowing water to leave at all. The best thing to do at this point is to stop using the affected areas a call JC Drainage Services before they overflow and cause more damage to your property.

The benefits of drainage maintenance are minimising blockages in your system by cleaning your drain lines regularly of scale build up, grease and soap scum and potentially catching root ingress early to avoid major blockages that will not only be costly to unblock but also blocked drains can cause serious damage and contamination in your home if they overflow.

If you have a septic- tank or treatment plant is it even more important to keep your drains in perfect working order to prolong the life of your system and not cause pollution resulting in expensive repairs and maybe fines from the environmental agency.