Overflowing Drain Emergency Service Bayside

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Why do drains overflow in Bayside?

An overflow is a symptom, the real cause sits in the pipe. Most often in Bayside it's a blockage in the main sewer or stormwater line, and the usual offenders are tree roots and ageing clay pipes. The mature trees along streets in Brighton, Hampton and Sandringham drive roots into the old jointed pipes that serve these homes, choking the line until waste has nowhere to go but up.

The overflow relief gully, that grated drain outside your home, is actually designed to overflow outside rather than let sewage back up into the house, so if you see it overflowing, it's doing its job while warning you the main line is blocked. Heavy rain can overwhelm blocked stormwater lines the same way, especially on the flat, low-lying blocks around Mordialloc, Aspendale and Chelsea near the bay. We clear the blockage, then camera the line to find why it happened.