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How Do You Do Your Job?

4th July 2016 Dear Paul, I just wanted to write and thank you for your swift, professional and very friendly service today when you came and unblocked the drain outside. I said when you arrived that I didn’t know how you did your job, as to me it must be one of the...
International Incidents No Problem

International Incidents No Problem

4th September 2016 The unabridged version of the potential international incident between Somalia and Bangladesh that had been brewing for the past weeks concerning a 3 month blocked shared drain, which was avoided this week by the combined efforts of 1-2 Clear and a...
Sahara Desert Comes to Yorkshire

Sahara Desert Comes to Yorkshire

4th September 2016 “The once beautiful garden looked dead, decaying and arid with only a few trees standing – just like the encroachment of the Sahara desert in North Africa…….!” There is an intense rivalry in Alabama between the American college football teams of the...
Finding False Teeth

Finding False Teeth

4th January 2017 1-2 Clear often receive calls from people who’ve lost things down the drains, from dropping car keys through a roadside gully grate to losing wedding rings down shower drains, also even being asked by an insurance company look for a Rolex watch...
A Kiss is All Part of The Service

A Kiss is All Part of The Service

4th April 2017 I picked up a call from a customer who relayed a story about another company who had cleared the drains and carried out a CCTV survey, they supposedly spotted a tree root intrusion through one of pipe joints, excavated and broke into the drain upstream...
A Few Extra Inches Needed

A Few Extra Inches Needed

4th May 2017 Hi Paul, Many thanks for your help on Friday and yesterday. After dealing with the drainage contractor who had caused the problem with the drain liner, your honest, open and efficient (not to mention humorous) approach was a pleasure to experience. I am...
Pleasant Man on The Phone

Pleasant Man on The Phone

5th June 2017 It would appear that I was the ‘very pleasant man on the telephone’ in the following email I received from a customer this evening: On account of the torrential rain, we had a serious problem with drain blockage resulting in raw sewage at the back of the...
Impressing The Wife

Impressing The Wife

5th June 2017 Dear Mr Robinson, I write to inform you how impressed my wife and I were with the service your company afforded us, when I telephoned you about our blocked drain. To receive such a prompt reply on a Saturday morning and the promise that your operative...
A pain like she’d been shot in the right buttock!

A pain like she’d been shot in the right buttock!

10th June 2017 There is never a dull moment in the Drains Business… Sitting having a ‘post drains clearance’ cup of coffee with a wonderful customer, when she said, “You would not believe what happened to me recently.” Explaining that she was about to take the bus...
A Wet & Very Soggy Moggy

A Wet & Very Soggy Moggy

18th June 2017 I knew this was going to be interesting when the owner of a property company called and said, “I really think you need to go to this one yourself Paul, it’s a real problem tenant and the drains have been blocked for three weeks”. Arriving, I noticed the...