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Discover how Polish restaurant, ChiChi 4U redefines burger dining using 300 PVC drainage pipes as interior decoration! Unconventional design meets culinary creativity.

Useful hints and tips from drainage professionals on how you can prevent and repair blockages in your rainwater soakaway system.

In electrical terms, a hockey stick is a curved plastic pipe used to connect and protect electrical cable between an underground service duct and a meter box.

Discover the crazy items that have been found blocking UK drains and how MuckStopper from Drainfast prevents more conventional blockages on construction sites.

Housebuilders Barratt and Redrow announce a £2.5bn deal aimed at meeting market challenges while helping the industry achieve its UK affordable housing targets.

Could the deterioration of asbestos cement water pipes in the UK present a health risk? We investigate this situation and what is being done to tackle it.

A design and installation guide from Drainfast, taking you through the steps of specifying, constructing and installing a drainage field for your septic tank.

Incident at NHS hospital highlights the importance of identifying confined spaces, risk assessments and ensuring workers are trained in safe working practices.

Without a drainage system to manage it, rainwater running off roofs and other non-porous surfaces can quickly cause flooding and waterlogging, particularly if the ground isn’t very permeable.

Get up to 30% off list price when you place your order online. If you are searching for underground drainage supplies for delivery to a project in England, you will find Drainfast an excellent supplier to deal with.

The whole team at Drainfast were invited to Mercedes-Benz World for a team-building event to share plans for the coming year. Highlights were a fascinating speech from Mandy Hickson and simulator racing.

While most parts of the UK have access to main sewers, more remote locations rely on off-grid alternatives such as septic tanks and sewage treatment plants.

A soil vent pipe is a vertical pipe connected to a sewage drainage system. Also called a stink pipe, drain waste vent or soil stack pipe, it is used to regulate the air pressure in an otherwise airtight sewage system.

In the UK, building regulations recommend that where possible, a property should be connected to the main drainage system for sewage and wastewater.

A septic tank is commonly used for sewage management where there is no connection to the main drainage network. This article outlines the regulations that need to be complied with.

Inspection chambers and their covers are subject to various regulations, including their load-bearing capacity, accessibility, safety and responsibility.

While water is essential for maintaining a garden, too much of it is most certainly a bad thing. In this blog post, we look at the possible causes of a poorly drained plot, the negative effects this can have and how the situation can be remedied.