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Ramadan Drain CleaningBuilding and complex maintenance in Jabriya
Building and complex maintenance in Jabriya means complex drain networks in tall residential towers and mid-rise blocks built side by side. Jabriya has modern towers near the American University of Kuwait and older buildings in the central blocks, each on different lines.
Signs across a block
Where a block showsits faults.
A block does not complain from one place. These are the spots that show it first.
01
One flat complains and the rest are fine
When one flat has water coming back and the rest drain normally, the fault sits in its own branch or where that branch joins the shared run, not in the shared run itself.
02
Water standing in the car park
A car park gully sits below street level, so any narrowing shows at once as a pool on the concrete. The cause we see most is grit and dust carried down by car washing and settled in the pot.
03
The tank water changes in summer
A roof tank sitting in the sun heats up, the water standing in it changes in taste and smell, and sediment can settle at the bottom. Residents complain about the water rather than the drains, and the cause is above them.
This area
What setsthis area apart
Jabriya towers near Mubarak Hospital and the University have multiple floor levels and independent roof risers for each drain branch. Adjoining blocks in Jabriya share one or two inspection chambers under the main street, and the lines between them are tight and complex. We must open each chamber separately and test every building's branches, and sometimes the clog is in the shared branch before the chamber. Short rods are not enough here, so we often use the tanker and long piping through the main branch.
Jabriya is in Hawalli governorate, an urban area dense with residential towers, adjoining blocks, medical and educational facilities.
Jabriya towers share inspection chambers with neighbouring buildings, and one chamber may have four to six branches entering it.
The work in short
What we cover ina block.
Service
Water and drainage network upkeep for a whole building
Where it applies
Residential blocks, complexes and buildings with several entrances
The points
Inspection chambers, manholes, car park gullies, roof tanks and pumps
Method
Chambers opened in order, drain rods, and a tanker when suction is needed
Coverage
All six governorates and the areas inside them
The round
From the roofto the car park.
We start at the top and work down, because what happens above shows up below.
We start at the tank and pump
We open the tank, look at the water and any sediment in the base, and watch the pump while it runs, because weak supply in the flats usually starts here and not at the tap.
We move to the vertical stacks
The stack collecting the bathrooms of the flats above one another reads from the access points and the landing gullies. We listen for water falling at its normal pace, or hesitating before it goes.
We open the yard chambers in order
We open from the chamber nearest the building and move towards the outlet, reading the level in each channel. A full chamber followed by an empty one puts the stoppage exactly between the two.
We finish at the car park
We lift the car park gully grating, clear what has settled in the pot, and check the outlet still sits above the standing water line, because that seal is what keeps odour out of the car park.
Common questions
Questions about Building and complex maintenance in Jabriya
Water backs up in more than one building at the same time or pools in the main chamber. We open the chamber and check the water level and which branch has the blockage exactly, using rods.
The main line runs under the street, and each building has branches running down inside it connecting to the chamber beneath the road. We need to know the line map to choose where to start checking.
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