by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
4th July 2017 Interesting customer in Barnsley yesterday – trilby hat, smoking a pipe, a magnificent set of false teeth, and kept calling me ‘Pal’, all he wanted to talk about was his bowel movements or lack of them, before I tried to change the subject by commenting...
by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
4th July 2017 What to do with twelve bin sacks, two wheelie bins, and seven black plastic dust bins ALL full of sewage? It was Sunday the F1 racing had finished when the call came through, “My husband’s been at it all weekend and now needs help”. I thought this could...
by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
4th July 2017 The manager of Beverley’s Beaver pub called us on a Sunday afternoon after he’d spent most of the night before, and the Sunday morning (in between coaching a rugby team) trying to clear the ladies toilets. He was a desperate looking man when I arrived –...
by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
26th July 2017 Pleasure to have been able to solve the long-standing surface water drain problems in the school playground – I’m sure the staff will be happy that the kids can now play outside after the rain stops – without having to wait days and days for the large...
by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
27th July 2017 It’s always going to be interesting when a customer with a blocked toilet calls and says, “Can you speak up a bit, I’m a little deaf.” To be met at the door of a wonderful old house by an elderly couple, who had clearly been successful prior to their...
by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
28th July 2017 A quick stop in a North Hull sandwich shop for lunch today. I’m standing waiting for my cheese, lettuce and cucumber on wholemeal to be being prepared when two cheeky older ladies walked in and started having a lot off to the staff. “Do you want salad...
by hulldrains | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
24th August 2017 “You know I have many vices young man” Recently a call came in from a lady with a recurring toilet blockage problem and blaming her husband, who was suffering with short term memory loss, for using too much toilet paper. On arrival the couple both...
