Kitchen drains
Ramadan Drain CleaningKitchen drain unclogging in Bidaa
Kitchen drain unclogging in Bidaa usually happens when water sits in the sink or the tap drips slowly. Bidaa is a residential area near the Salmiya seafront in Hawalli, with mid-rise flats and newer apartments, larger kitchens than old builds, but grease still accumulates.
Kitchen signs
When grease isthe cause.
A grease blockage behaves in a way nothing else does.
01
It drains, then comes back
Run the tap lightly and it goes down; fill the bowl to wash up and the water comes back and stands. The run is narrowed, not closed, and that is exactly what grease does, leaving a small channel in the middle.
02
One bowl affects the other
Empty the right bowl and the water rises in the left. Both share one trap and one branch, so the blockage sits past the point where they meet, not in either strainer.
03
The washer backs into the sink
A dishwasher or a washing machine on the same branch pushes out a slug of hot water at once. If the sink rises while it drains, the branch cannot take it and grease has narrowed it.
This area
What setsthis area apart
Most Bidaa flats date from the 1980s and 1990s, with kitchens open to the living room and drain pipes that fall from above before reaching a shared inspection chamber. The trap at the sink is old plastic or corroded metal, and sometimes there are two drains in the kitchen: one from the sink and one from the hand sink. When the kitchen clogs, we unscrew the main sink trap first, then inspect the hand sink pipes, because grease from both can collect in the same outlet that feeds the main riser.
Bidaa is a residential area in Hawalli governorate, close to the seafront and home to apartment blocks from various eras.
Drain pipes in Bidaa flats drop vertically from the kitchen ceiling, not horizontally, so grease clogs the riser before it reaches the chamber.
The kitchen, short
The kitchen job, short.
Service
Kitchen drain, sink and trap unclogging
First cause
Cooking grease cooled onto the pipe wall
Method
Trap off, small electric snake, wall scraped
Where it applies
Kitchens in houses, flats and small food units
What we advise against
Pouring caustic products down a kitchen drain
Hours
Daily, 6:00 in the morning to 12:00 midnight
How it works
From the trap tothe branch.
Four steps, all under the sink, with nothing opened up.
We drop the trap into a bucket
The trap is the first thing we open, and it tells us most of the story. If the grease has gathered only there, the branch beyond it is usually sound and the job ends at that point.
The snake goes into the branch
The small electric snake enters at the branch mouth and works in on a flexible cable. Turning it scrapes the pipe wall, instead of punching one narrow hole through the middle of the grease.
We bring the scrapings out
What comes off goes into the bucket rather than down the line, because a pushed slug of grease lodges at the first change of direction and becomes a bigger problem outside the house.
We refit and test it full
The trap goes back, both bowls are filled and released together in front of you. Testing with a real volume is what proves the bore is back, not a thin run from the tap.
Common questions
Questions about Kitchen drain unclogging in Bidaa
The secondary drain from the hand sink or counter sink often clogs before the main one. Grease settles in the horizontal pipe before it meets the riser. We inspect both when we arrive.
If we clean the trap and water still drains slowly, we feed the electric rod down the pipe itself. The rod breaks the grease inside the pipe, and water flows freely after.
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Other work we do in the same area.
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