Our soakaway does not drain. Bigger hole?

No. Near the station the water table is high enough that the surrounding ground is already saturated, so a soakaway has nowhere to send water regardless of size. Permeable construction that stores water through the peak and releases it slowly is the workable answer.

Can you work here during the rains?

Deliveries become the problem before the paving does. Unsurfaced estate roads around Katani will not take a loaded tipper after heavy rain, and a bogged truck blocks the road for everyone. We schedule around the weather rather than promising dates we cannot hold.

Plumber in Syokimau, Nairobi

We cover Syokimau including Katani, Gateway, Signature, Mlolongo, Athi River, Kitengela fringe, Syokimau station area. Off Mombasa Road via the Syokimau and Mlolongo interchanges. Internal estate roads are unsurfaced and difficult after heavy rain.

What is different about plumbing in Syokimau

Ground near the Syokimau railway station has a high water table, so a soakaway serving a paved area there fills rather than discharging.
Unsurfaced estate roads around Katani become impassable to a loaded tipper after heavy rain, so deliveries are scheduled around the weather.
New Gateway and Signature plots have no storm drainage connection at all, which makes permeable construction the realistic option rather than a preference.

Paving in Syokimau and Mlolongo

This corridor is new housing on ground that holds water, with no drainage infrastructure to send it to.

Nowhere to discharge

Many plots here have no storm drainage connection at all. That makes the usual approach (channel, gully, outfall) simply unavailable.

Combined with a high water table near the station, it also makes soakaways unreliable: they only work if the surrounding ground can accept water, and seasonally it cannot.

So permeable construction with an open-graded sub-base that stores water and releases it slowly is frequently the realistic option rather than an upgrade. We say so at quotation rather than building a conventional job that floods in April.

Delivery and weather

Unsurfaced estate roads around Katani will not carry a loaded tipper after heavy rain. A bogged truck blocks the road for every other resident, which is a worse outcome than a delayed start.

We schedule material deliveries around the weather here more than anywhere else in the network.

Built fast

Like the housing, a lot of the existing paving here went down quickly on thin bases. Where we are called to repair it, the blocks are usually fine and the base is not.

What we are usually called out for in Syokimau

Drainage and falls Falls, channels and outfalls designed before laying, because paving concentrates water it did not create. Cabro paving Cabro laid on an engineered base with edge restraint, the two things that decide whether it lasts. Concrete slabs and hardstanding Yard slabs, parking bays and hardstanding, jointed and cured properly rather than poured and abandoned. Kerbs and edging Haunched kerbs and edging, the restraint without which paving spreads regardless of block quality.

Landmarks we work around here: Syokimau railway station, Gateway Mall, Mombasa Road, Athi River. See what cabro costs.