You can't imagine it, what dangers a clogged sewage pipe carries. At this moment, I am not thinking about sewage flooding, when the apartment is flooded with dirt. There is a much more insidious source of danger than this, namely land erosion and collapse!
During one of our clogging removal works, the customer called for a simple small floor confluence or water sink blockage. So far, there is nothing wrong and there have been no signs of anything.
A anti-clogging our client informed us about it before starting, that he noticed, that the wall is wet and the gutter in the yard does not absorb the rainwater, than ever before. We were up to the task and cleared the blockage in half an hour. We noticed that, that the concrete bottom of the sinkhole is already in a very dilapidated condition, which we also indicated to the owner. He acknowledged it and said that even the sun would fix the mistake.
We issued the invoice, then the customer went for the amount. In the meantime, one of my colleagues and I were talking and looking at the cobblestones in the yard and we were nostalgic about it, that not so long ago, how many streets were paved with such stones and how slippery they were in the heavy rain. As we were talking, I suddenly noticed that, that my colleague is standing still. At first I thought, that he got sick. But luckily not!
The following sight greeted me, as I got after it and we both fell:
Next to the sinkhole, the soil washed away over time and there was a real hole under the ground. Luckily, that a major accident did not occur because it was located under a driveway. I must admit that we were very scared and the owner understood immediately, why the wall of the house is wet.
Perhaps the problem could have been prevented by maintaining the sewage pipeline, if we notice the error in time!
