Avoid blocking your drain
Your drain is all the piping between your sinks, your shower (or bath), your toilet, and your gully traps, and the sewer pipe at the edge of your property, or your septic tank. If it blocks, you call a plumber to fix it.
Five things block drains -- tree roots, subsidence, lime scale, rust, and people putting the wrong things into the drain.
We at FOG-Catcher call that last cause "Household Sewer Pollution". We divide it into two types - FOG (Fat, Oil and Grease) and "Sewer Litter".
Sewage should contain only:
- human waste and toilet paper,
- water used for washing yourself, your clothes, your food and your cooking things.
Nothing else.
If only those things went down the drain, everything would be fine with the drains. And cheaper.
List of things which should not be in the sewers
What sort of things shouldn't go down the sink, toilet and gully trap? Here's a list of the most commonly found ones.
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How do you avoid blocking your drain? -- Don't put the wrong things into it.