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Message on WhatsAppA shower drain that drains slowly is already partially blocked. Water pooling around your feet during a shower is not a quirk of the plumbing, it is a sign that a mass of hair, soap scum and shower gel residue is building up inside the waste pipe. Left alone it gets worse, and a slow shower drain becomes a completely blocked one within weeks.
The fix sounds simple. Often it is. But pulling the hair out of the trap cover and calling it done only clears the first inch or two of the problem. The real blockage usually sits further along the waste pipe where the debris has compacted and the soap scum has hardened around it. That is why shower drains that have been cleaned at the surface keep coming back as slow drains month after month.
ClearFlow clears blocked shower drains across Glasgow and the surrounding area. David and Chris carry the right equipment to clear the full waste run, not just the surface of the trap, so when the job is done the shower drains the way it should.
Water pooling around your feet during a shower and taking a long time to drain away
Shower drain clearing much slower than it used to
Water still standing in the shower tray several minutes after you finish
Smell coming from the shower drain, usually caused by hair and bacteria in the trap
Gurgling sounds from the plughole during or after the shower
Shower drain completely blocked with no water passing at all
Wet room floor flooded because the drain cannot cope with the water volume
Water backing up into the shower tray when another fixture drains nearby
Speak to David or Chris directly. We take the details, including whether it is a tray shower, wet room or walk-in, and give you a fixed price before we travel.
You get the price by text or email before the engineer sets off. No fixed call-out fee, nothing added at the end.
We come out as fast as we can, and we tell you honestly when that will be rather than quote you a number.
We remove the drain cover and clear the trap, then clear the full length of the waste pipe using the right method for the blockage. Hair and soap blockages get mechanical clearing. Grease and scale get jetting. If the drain keeps blocking we run a camera to find out why.
We run the shower and confirm the drain is fully clear before we leave. We let you know what caused it and the easiest way to keep it clear going forward.
Shower drains block more predictably than almost any other drain in the house. The causes are consistent across Glasgow properties whether it is a Victorian tenement flat, a new-build apartment or a commercial property with multiple shower rooms.
The single biggest cause of every blocked shower drain we clear. Hair collects at the trap and on any rough joint or bend in the waste pipe. Over weeks and months it builds into a solid mass that nothing can pass through.
Soap and shower gel solidify inside the waste pipe over time, coating the internal bore and binding with the hair to form a dense blockage that surface cleaning will not shift.
Hard water leaves calcium deposits inside the waste pipe. In older Glasgow properties with cast-iron or clay shower waste pipes, scale builds up over years and narrows the bore until water cannot drain freely.
Wet rooms and walk-in showers have larger open drain areas that collect more debris. The floor gradient needs to direct all water to the drain, and if the drain partially blocks, a wet room floor floods quickly.
A trap that is the wrong size, poorly fitted or cracked will collect debris more easily than a correctly installed one. If the shower has been draining slowly since it was installed, the trap or the waste connection may be the issue.
In properties with multiple bathrooms sharing a single waste pipe, a blockage on the shared run causes every shower in the building to drain slowly. This requires clearing the full shared waste pipe rather than just the individual trap.
Good news: every one of these has a clean, proven fix, and we'll show you exactly what we found.
Get it fixedDavid and Chris are Glasgow-based and do the work themselves. You speak to the engineer on the phone, not a booking agent.
Surface clearing just shifts the problem. We clear the trap and the full waste pipe so the drain stays clear.
Fully insured on every job. Certificate available on request.
Agreed in writing before we start. The price you are quoted is the price you pay.
Most shower drain jobs are done in one visit. No waiting around for an engineer to become available.
We clear shower drains in private homes, HMOs, hotels, gyms, sports facilities and any other commercial property.
For hair and soap blockages, electro-mechanical clearing equipment breaks up the compacted mass inside the waste pipe without damaging the surrounding pipework. This is more effective than chemicals and more thorough than anything you can do from the surface with a drain snake from a hardware shop.
Where scale and grease are involved, or where the waste pipe has not been properly cleaned in years, high-pressure water jetting flushes the full bore of the pipe completely clear. Running at up to 4,000 PSI it removes the scale coating from the inside wall of the pipe and restores full flow.
If a shower drain has been repeatedly blocking or will not respond to standard clearing, we run an HD CCTV camera into the waste run to check for a structural issue, a misaligned joint or a problem on the shared waste pipe further downstream. We show you the footage and explain what we find.
No fixed call-out fee. You pay only if you proceed with the work, and the price is confirmed in writing before we start. Nothing is added at the end of the job.
There is no extra charge for short notice, evenings or weekends on standard call-outs.
If the camera identifies a structural issue that needs a separate repair, we explain what we found and provide a written quote. Nothing proceeds without your sign-off.
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