Slow-draining bath or shower? Usually hair and soap scum, easily cleared.
Baths and showers block gradually — hair, soap residue and limescale build up on the inside of the waste pipe until drainage slows to a trickle and eventually stops. It's rarely urgent, but it's worth sorting before it backs up completely, particularly in a bathroom with only one working shower.
We clear the waste pipe properly rather than just pulling out what's reachable from the plughole, which is usually as far as a DIY attempt gets.
Period villas in Didsbury often have bathrooms retrofitted onto older pipework that was never designed for the job, which is where we usually find hair and soap scum build-up. Postwar housing in Wythenshawe tends to have wider, more consistent plumbing, so blockages there are less frequent but not unheard of.
A cheap plughole hair catcher stops most of the problem before it starts — it's the single easiest way to keep a bath or shower draining well between visits.
Yes — wet room gullies and shower tray wastes are usually narrower than a standard bath waste, and we carry the right size equipment for both.
