As a professional sewage removal company, P and S Tankers Ltd regularly works with commercial and domestic clients in Southampton and the surrounding areas. Our experienced technicians offer the following drain unblocking and specialist sanitation services:
If you would like to enquire about any of these services for your property, please contact us. Our team will gladly inform you on anything related to limescale jetting, cesspit cleaning, grease trap cleaning, gully sucking or any other sanitation services.
Like with our grease trap emptying, cesspit emptying and work clearing emergency blocked drains, we like to provide useful information regarding our services. As one of our main areas of expertise as a sewage removal company, we will share some of our insights regarding drainage gullies. This should help you improve your understanding of their function and explain why we provide our high pressure jetting and gully sucking services to keep them well-maintained.
Drainage gullies are fittings that are used to connect different types of water to appropriate drainage systems. There are rainwater and stormwater gullies although at P and S Tanker Ltd, we focus on maintaining wastewater gullies for our Southampton-based customers. In a domestic or commercial property, a wastewater gully typically receives ‘grey’ water from various sources. These include:
Gully may be used for different purposes, but they all have the same function. They create a pocket of water at the bottom of the gully that prevents gases produced by decaying matter in wastewater from entering the outside air and stops twigs, leaves, moss, and debris from entering the drain.
Drainage gullies typically use either a P-trap gully or a bottle-trap gully design. Besides this, all drainage gullies share the following components:
This is a grated lid that’s placed on top of the gully. Whether it’s a grate or grid, its purpose is to catch larger pieces of debris and stop them from entering the gully. This can be removed easily during gully emptying so that smaller pieces of debris that have passed through the grate or grid can be cleaned out.
This is the uppermost section of the gully. The hopper is a vital part of a P-trap gully, whereas, in a bottle-trap gully, this is a separate component that can be removed.
This is the lowest section of the gully, sitting lower than the outlet in the gully. The gully pot is where the water trap is formed, and any small pieces of debris that pass through the grate/grid are collected.
The water trap's design can vary depending on whether you have a P-trap or bottle-trap gully. A P-trap gully will always have a pocket of water to prevent gases from escaping, while a bottle-trap gully allows water that enters the hopper to flow to the outlet via the pot.
If you’re based in Southampton and would like to learn more about drainage gullies or gully emptying, speak to the team at P and S Tankers Ltd. We are a local sewage removal company specialising in clearing emergency blocked drains, cesspit emptying, grease trap emptying and more.
