Drain Unblockage News
Drainage engineers at Lanes Group plc are helping cable installers clear stubborn blockages in ducts – so they can meet tight deadlines to deliver ultrafast broadband to thousands of homes. The duct jetting services are saving the installation teams from having to pay out huge sums to excavate blockages or reroute ducts – and also…
A specialist team of blockage busters set up by Lanes Group plc is helping the UK’s biggest water company crack some of its most complicated sewer problems – boosting customer service and cutting costs. The special projects team is using the latest remote cutting and pipe lining technologies to remove blockages from hard-to-reach sewers that…
Rail bosses have praised a joint drainage team from Lanes Group plc and UKDN Waterflow (LG) for its fast response to a sewer blockage at an important maintenance depot. Network Rail called track drainage specialist UKDN Waterflow (LG) after rail staff using the High Output Operational Base (HOOB) at Swindon, Wiltshire, had problems with toilets…
What would you expect to find in a sewer? It’s a question that most people won’t often think about too closely, but for companies like Lanes for Drains, it’s a day-to-day reality. Our job is to keep the UK’s drains and sewers clear, flowing and in good working order – and that means making sure…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have used new pipe cleaning technology to solve persistent drain blockage problems at a nuclear power station. They used two machines – a new Picote mini cleaner and an electro-mechanical cutter – to clear drains in one of the two reactor halls at Heysham power station in Lancashire. Their…
An elderly man has praised Lanes drainage engineer Michael Roberts for assisting him after he fell at home and could not get up. Michael, who works at the Lanes Group plc Leeds depot, had been mobilised to clear a blocked toilet when he found the customer had collapsed. He said: “I got to the property…
At Lanes Group, we believe our talented team of drainage engineers are doing amazing work across the country – which is why we’re thrilled that a group of Lanes engineers recently got to make their TV debut, courtesy of ITV1’s documentary series Sewer Men! The incredible opportunity saw a camera crew following our intrepid Lanes…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have spent a week delivering specialist pipe surveying and cleaning services to customers in Orkney. Customers praised the Lanes team for the support provided to clear a heavily-contaminated pipe, water jet drains around a major reservoir and survey sewers at a new housing estate. Five operatives from the Lanes…