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The ASL Limited road gully sucking tanker on it's way to a road gully clearance.
A rainwater gully and a road gully serve similar purposes in collecting and directing water, but they differ in their locations and specific functions: Rainwater Gully Purpose: Designed to handle water from rooftops, driveways, and other hard surfaces around buildings. Location: Typically found on private property...

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Our blocked drain personnel are drainage experts.
We say our drainage engineers are fully experienced, and we are able to retain our employees. Let me tell you why and how. After spending a significant amount of time and money investigating the causes of employee turnover, including many extensive interviews, to find out why people leave, if we as a company can...
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This is a picture of a treatment plant installation taking place
Cesspits/Cesspools Cesspits can vary in different shapes and sizes and are installed entirely underground. Newer cess pits consist of a huge watertight fiberglass holding tank with an inlet, and older tanks are usually of brick construction. An average cesspit has a capacity of approximately 4000 gallons, designed for...
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CCTV quick drain survey establishing the tree root ingress and cracked pipe on a blocked drain callout with ASL Limited
What is the relationship between a blocked drain engineer and a small excavations repair team? I believe it’s the people and the trades we are familiar with. Our engineers and workforce start each day at 6 o’clock in the morning – first talking to the managers for an update on what may have happened since their last...
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Don't let your party or gathering be remembered for the bad smell of raw sewage!
When is the worst and the best time to have a blocked drain? I expect we can agree there is no 'best time' to have a blocked drain but there is a worst time and a way of preventing it too. The worst time to have a blocked drain is when there are lots of people! At Christmas time, a New Year's Eve party, birthday party...
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A treatment plant clogged up with grease and fat
Pumping Macerated Solids (sewage down the toilet OR stuff put through garbage disposals). It is more cost-effective and less problematic to separate the sewage from the water and pump water only when or if a situation arises. We usually avoid pumping raw sewage to a treatment plant unless the treatment plant is twice...
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This is a picture of our Gerry
Whilst many businesses strive to be process-driven, ensuring consistent and expected outputs, the ever-changing demands from customers, clients, staff and stakeholders etc, continue to put pressure on the ‘daily grind’. It can feel like a ‘safe space’ for many workers and business owners to know their exact tasks for...
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Adjusting our surface water drainage can save our land, rivers and seas from pollution.
According to the Environment Agency, 97.1% of bathing waters in England have passed water quality standards following testing at over 400 designated sites carried out by the Environment Agency (EA). These New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting the highest quality standard is the most since...
This is an image of a flow diagram designed to help you understand what kind of private sewage system you might have.
View this flow chart as a pdf by clicking this link. We thought it might be helpful for you to be able to identify which kind of private sewage system you have. We know you don't always know when you inherit these systems with a new home. And it can be helpful to understand whether or not your existing system complies... ,
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Our Danny having passed his HGV Licence – Nice one Danny!
Congratulations on passing your HGV Test Danny! Well done! We are very proud of all our teams for their achievements. #sharingagoodthing Maybe you'll see him when he comes to empty your cesspit, septic tank or treatment plant! Make sure you say hello. Take a look at our tank emptying services.
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Surface water is overwhelming our drains.
Our Gerry explains how surface water is getting into our drains and overwhelming our sewage systems. " Millions and millions of litres of rainwater and surface water from a storm and rains would break up any treatment plant and overwhelm it." See a written explanation below. ,

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