Drainage Services in London
Booked around your diary, or cleared tonight, at the same hourly rate.
From a blocked sink to a collapsed run under the garden. Everything starts with establishing where the problem actually is and, just as importantly, whose drain it legally is, because since 2011 a great deal of the pipework people pay to have fixed belongs to the water company.
Local conditions we work around
Most of London still drains through Victorian infrastructure, much of it combined sewers carrying foul and surface water in the same pipe. Two consequences follow. Heavy rain can surcharge the system and push water back up through the lowest gully in a property, which is why some basements flood in a storm without any blockage at all. And the older clay runs beneath gardens and pavements have joints that tree roots find, so root intrusion is one of the most common things our cameras record.
Services
Commercial Drainage Services in London, 24/7
Drainage for premises that cannot close: kitchens, pubs, hotels, offices and retail.
CCTV Drain Survey in London
See the problem before you pay to fix it.
High-Pressure Drain Jetting in London
Jetting strips a drain back to the pipe wall, grease, scale, roots and silt.
Drain Repairs in London
Cracked, root-bound or dropped drains repaired in the least invasive order: patch line where it's local.
New Drain Installation in London
Extensions, garden rooms, new bathrooms and outbuildings all need waste to go somewhere lawful.
Blocked Sink in London
Kitchen sinks block with grease, bathroom basins with hair and soap, different blockages, same result.
Gutter Cleaning in London
Blocked gutters don't announce themselves until water is running down the inside of a wall.
Drain Cleaning and Drain Clearance in London
For drains that still run but run slowly, gurgle or smell, in houses, flats and shared runs.
Soakaways in London
A soakaway takes rainwater from your roof or driveway and disperses it into the ground rather than into a sewer.
Questions people ask
Whose drain is it?
Since October 2011, drains shared with another property and the lateral drain beyond your boundary transferred to the water and sewerage company. What remains yours is the pipework inside your boundary serving only your property. Our camera survey establishes which is which in writing, and if it is theirs we tell you.
Do I need a camera survey?
For a first-time blockage with an obvious cause, no. For anything that has blocked more than once, for a property purchase, or for an insurance claim, yes, it is the difference between clearing a symptom repeatedly and fixing a cause once.
Can a blocked drain be an emergency?
If waste water is backing up into the property or the only toilet is unusable, absolutely, and we attend 24/7. A slow gully or a gurgling sink can wait for a booked slot, and we will say so rather than charging emergency rates for it.
Will you have to dig up the garden?
Usually not. Most defects our cameras find can be jetted, patch-lined or fully lined from an existing access point with no excavation at all. Digging is for genuine collapses, and where it is needed we locate first so the hole is a metre wide rather than exploratory.