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Safaai Saathi — Safety Tank & Sanitation CareSafaai Saathi

WHAT WE DO

Five services. One job: get the waste moving again.

Septic tank cleaning, blocked drains and soak pits — across Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur. Sealed tankers, sludge taken to an authorised site, and a number that gets answered at two in the morning.

Service 01

Septic tank cleaning

सेप्टिक ट्याङ्की सरसफाइ

The tank under your yard is full. We bring a sealed vacuum tanker, pump out every litre of it, scrape the hardened sludge off the walls and floor, and drive the lot away — about an hour, with nothing spilled on your tiles.

Price from
Rs. 5,000+ (varies by tank size, age and access)
Turnaround
Same or next day · about an hour on site

Every 2–3 years for most homes to keep it from ever becoming an emergency.

We don't pack up until you have looked into the tank yourself.

For

  • Homes
  • Apartments
  • Hotels
  • Hospitals
  • Schools

Includes

  • Full desludge — the liquid and the hardened sludge under it
  • Walls, floor and baffles scraped, not just skimmed
  • Outlet and soak-away checked while the tank is open
  • Sealed hoses in, sealed tanker out — no buckets, no spill
  • The area washed down before we leave

Signs you need this

  • The toilet flushes slowly, or comes back up
  • Every drain in the house is slow at the same time
  • A smell near the tank cover that won't scrub out
  • Soft, wet ground — or unusually green grass — over the tank
  • Gurgling from the floor trap after a shower

If you leave it: Sludge reaches the outlet and pushes on into the soak pit, which then clogs solid. Rebuilding a soak pit costs many times what emptying a tank does — and long before that bill arrives, the sewage comes back up your own pipes.

Service 02

Blocked drains & soak pits

Kitchen line, bathroom line, sewer line, and the pit at the end of them — cleared with high-pressure jetting that cuts through grease and roots, not a rod and a prayer. If the water is standing, this is the one you need.

Price from
By site survey
Turnaround
Same or next day · scoped on site

If jetting cannot clear it, you will hear that from us — not a bigger bill.

For

  • Homes
  • Apartments
  • Hotels
  • Institutions

Includes

  • Soak-pit desludging
  • Blocked kitchen, bathroom and sewer lines cleared
  • High-pressure jetting through grease, silt and roots
  • Gully traps and surface drains cleared
  • The cause identified — so it isn't back next month

Signs you need this

  • Sinks and floor traps draining slowly
  • Gurgling pipes
  • A foul odour indoors, or out in the yard
  • Sewage backing up
  • Water pooling above the soak pit

If you leave it: The monsoon. A drain that is merely slow in Jestha is a flooded ground floor in Shrawan — and by then every tanker in the Valley is already booked.

Service 0324/7 Emergency

24/7 emergency desludging

Overflowing at two in the morning. Sewage on the bathroom floor. A festival weekend, and it cannot wait until the offices reopen. Message us and we will tell you what to do while we are already on the way.

Price from
Ask for a rapid quote (after-hours rate applies)
Turnaround
Rapid response across the Valley, 24/7

Send us the landmark, not the address. Every driver here grew up on these lanes.

For

  • Homes
  • Apartments
  • Hotels
  • Hospitals
  • Institutions

Includes

  • Answered any hour, any day — festivals included
  • Rapid pump-out and make-safe
  • Overflow, backflow and monsoon flooding
  • What to do right now, told to you on the phone while we drive
Service 04

Responsible sludge disposal

The part of this trade nobody advertises, because so much of it gets tipped into the nearest river after dark. Every load we pump leaves your street in a sealed tanker and goes to an authorised, FSM-compliant site. Not the next ward. Not the Bagmati.

Price from
Included in every job
Turnaround
Part of every clean

Ask us where your sludge went. We will tell you.

For

  • Included with every desludging and pit-emptying job — at no extra cost

Includes

  • Sealed transport to authorised disposal sites
  • Fecal-sludge-management (FSM) compliant handling
  • In line with Nepal's 2014 mandatory-septic rule
  • Never into a river, a field, or someone else's neighbourhood
Service 05

Inspection & maintenance plans

The cheapest tank clean is the one you booked before you needed it. We keep the date, send the reminder and arrive on a schedule — so your building never has to meet its septic tank at two in the morning.

Price from
By contract (AMC)
Turnaround
Scheduled to your calendar

A price agreed before the work, at a time you chose.

For

  • Apartments
  • Hospitals
  • Hotels
  • Schools
  • Offices

Includes

  • Scheduled inspections, with a written note on the tank's condition
  • A reminder before the tank is due, not after
  • Annual maintenance contracts (AMC) for buildings and institutions
  • Priority slots — contract clients go to the front of the queue

How we clean

The same six steps on a hospital and on a two-room flat

No shortened version for the small jobs. Step five is the one that matters: we open it up and you look inside for yourself, before anybody talks about a bill.

  1. 01

    Inspect

  2. 02

    Desludge / pump out

  3. 03

    High-pressure jet & scrub

  4. 04

    Disinfect (WHO-grade)

  5. 05

    You verify

  6. 06

    Certificate + next-clean date

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Pricing

Anyone who quotes your tank over the phone hasn't seen it

A cheap number on the call and a different number once the hose is in the tank is the oldest trick in this trade. We would rather ask you three questions and give you a figure that holds.

  • Tank type — rectangular, or cylindrical / ring
  • Size, and how many people have been using it
  • Years since the last clean — sludge hardens with age
  • How far the hose has to run from where the tanker can park
  • Access to the cover, and whether it has been sealed over
  • The hour — emergency and after-hours work is rated differently

The figures beside this are honest starting bands. The exact one is confirmed with you before the work starts.

Septic tank cleaning
Rs. 5,000+ (varies by tank size, age and access)
Blocked drains & soak pits
By site survey
24/7 emergency desludging
Ask for a rapid quote (after-hours rate applies)
Responsible sludge disposal
Included in every job
Inspection & maintenance plans
By contract (AMC)

FAQ

The questions people ask before they trust us

How to tell the tank is full, what it costs, whether the tanker can get down your galli, and where the sludge actually ends up.

Still not sure?

Send us a photo of the problem.

One picture of the tank cover, the drain or the standing water is enough for us to tell you what it needs and roughly what it costs. No visit, no charge, no obligation.

Overflowing right now? We answer 24/7