2012 News
It is not just drains that benefit from Lanes’ cleaning skills. Earlier this year, the team was asked to help spring clean the Grand Cascade, a spectacular water feature at The Alnwick Garden, one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK. The Grand Cascade is the largest water feature of its kind in…
Engineers at Lanes for Drains Plymouth worked round the clock in a race against time to carry out a major repair on a pipe at one of Cornwall’s largest food factories. They successfully completed the job by working 24 hours a day over a weekend, allowing full food production to resume on Monday morning –…
Lanes for Drains has shown it has waste management expertise that reaches beyond pipes and sewers – by managing a project to remove hundreds of tonnes of leachate from a landfill site in East Anglia. The company’s St Neots depot in Cambridgeshire, was awarded the contract to remove the waste water and transport it to…
Lanes for Drains expertise in managing contamination emergencies is being used to protect natural water courses after a major factory fire in South Wales. The fire at the Real Crisp factory on the Pen Y Fan industrial estate, Crumlin, Caerphilly, caused damage costing millions of pounds. More than 60 firefighters tackled the blaze, being treated…
Lanes likes its customers to be happy. In fact, the happier, the better. So, when Paul Matthews, development manager of the Tyne and Wear depot received an email from a very happy John Gorman praising the engineers who had carried out a CCTV survey, he was positively delighted. John is Group Facilities Manager at the…
The engineers from Lanes have found some weird and wonderful things in drains, but a team from the East Midlands depot were surprised to come face to face with a friendly ferret whilst on a routine cleanse and survey project. The furry pet appeared as they had finished jetting the drain and were preparing to…
Lanes for Drains engineers are using their heads when it comes to best practice for health and safety – because vital information that could help save their lives is now kept on their hats. Lanes, the UK’s largest independent specialist drainage company, has invested in an emergency ID system that works by storing personal health…
Lanes for Drains engineers in East Anglia got top marks for the speed and efficiency of their service as they completed full drainage surveys and cleaning programmes on two secondary schools over the summer. Teams from the St Neots depot in Cambridgeshire were called in by a main contractor to support major refurbishment programmes at…
