There is a tank under my parking area that nobody can identify. What is it?

On a redeveloped Kileleshwa plot it is almost always the original house's septic tank, left in place and built over. It needs locating and dealing with properly before any excavation, and we survey for it rather than discovering it with a digger.

Why does my basement plant room flood in the rains?

Plots near the Kirichwa have a high water table and the chamber sits close to it. The fix is a properly rated sump pump with a float and a non-return valve, not a bigger bucket.

Plumber in Kileleshwa, Nairobi

We cover Kileleshwa including Othaya Road, Laikipia Road, Gatundu Road, Mandera Road, Siaya Road, Kandara Road, Ring Road Kileleshwa. Off Ring Road Kileleshwa and Gitanga Road. Newer blocks have basement pump chambers reached through the car park, so we ask for parking clearance when you call.

What is different about plumbing in Kileleshwa

Kileleshwa's rebuild from bungalows into apartments has left old service connections on Othaya Road feeding blocks many times the load they were originally sized for.
Plots along Laikipia Road and Mandera Road frequently retain a disused septic tank buried under the new parking deck, which we locate before any excavation starts.
The Kirichwa river runs through Kileleshwa, so basement pump chambers on the plots nearest it sit close to the water table and flood during the long rains.

Plumbing in Kileleshwa

Kileleshwa has been rebuilt almost completely in twenty years, from single-storey houses on generous plots to apartment blocks. The plumbing consequence is specific: the buildings are new, but a lot of what feeds and drains them is not.

Old connections, new loads

A service connection sized for one bungalow now feeds a block of twenty flats. The pipe in the ground did not change when the building above it did. The symptom is a block that fills its tanks too slowly overnight and runs short by evening, and no amount of work inside the building fixes it, because the constraint is the connection.

We meter the fill rate before recommending anything. If the connection is the limit, the answer is an upsized connection or more storage, and it is worth knowing which before spending money.

What is buried on the plot

Redeveloped plots keep their secrets. Original septic tanks, old soakaways and abandoned supply runs are routinely left in place and built over. Before any excavation on a Kileleshwa plot we survey for them, because finding a disused tank with an excavator bucket is expensive and occasionally dangerous.

Water table near the Kirichwa

The plots closest to the Kirichwa sit near enough to the water table that basement plant rooms take water in the long rains. The correct answer is a properly specified sump with a float switch and a non-return valve on the discharge, tested annually before the rains rather than during them.

What we are usually called out for in Kileleshwa

Water pumps and booster sets Booster sets, submersibles and pressure vessels, sized properly and installed with the right controls. Emergency plumber A licensed plumber at your gate 24 hours a day for burst pipes, sudden leaks and total loss of water. Septic tanks and biodigesters Biodigester and conventional septic systems, sized to occupancy and sited to the soil that has to take the effluent. Leak detection and repair Tracing hidden leaks behind walls and under slabs, and repairing them with minimum damage.

Landmarks we work around here: Kirichwa Road, Ring Road Kileleshwa, Gitanga Road, Kileleshwa shopping centre. See our rates.