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The cure was high-pressure water jetting—a lance that blasted the pipe clean with water at over 3,000 PSI. Sarah learned a valuable lesson: the bin is for fats, not the sink.

Telford, a sprawling new town built around historic industrial villages like Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, and Madeley, has a unique plumbing personality. It’s a tale of two infrastructures. In the newer estates—Woodside, Hollinswood, Priorslee—the drains are relatively young, a network of plastic pipes laid in the 1970s and 80s. But in the older villages, the bones of the system are Victorian or even older, a heritage maze of clay pipes and brick-lined sewers that once served the world's first iron bridge and the foundries of the Industrial Revolution. blocked drains telford

The most dramatic case, however, was at "The Ironbridge Spoon." The foul smell was accompanied by a worrying sign: water bubbling up from a manhole cover in the pub’s car park. This was a blocked main drain—shared by the pub and three neighbouring cottages. A collapse. The cure was high-pressure water jetting—a lance that