Galway drains are a mix of old and new: clay and cast iron under city terraces, plastic runs in newer estates, and septic tanks once you leave the sewer network. The pages are written around that mix.
Requests come from the city and Salthill, from Oranmore, Athenry, Loughrea and Tuam, and from the Connemara side. Responsibility for a drain usually changes at the property boundary, where the public sewer run by Uisce Éireann begins.
Most people arrive with water where it should not be. They want to know what to switch off, whether the problem is theirs or the public sewer's, and who can come and clear it.
The pages split by what you can see: one fixture, several fixtures, an outside chamber, a blockage that keeps coming back and needs a camera, a septic tank or a commercial grease trap.