Blocked Sink in London

Blocked sink in London: what the price includes

• 01
  Trap-out clearing

  The trap comes off and the waste arm gets cleared to the stack, not a poke, a clean.

• 02
  Both directions checked

  A sink that gurgles when the bath empties has a shared-waste issue, we check the join, not just the bowl.

• 03
  Grease habits ended

  The kitchen sink that blocks quarterly has a cause; we'll show you what came out and what changes it.

• 04
  Standing-water safe

  Chemical-free clearing, important, because half the sinks we visit have already had caustic soda poured in.

• 05
  We look past the trap

  Anyone can clear a bottle trap. If the blockage is beyond it, in the branch, the stack or the gully outside, clearing the trap buys you a fortnight. We establish how far down it sits before deciding whether this is a ten-minute job or a drainage one.

Local conditions we work around

Hard water quietly makes London sink blockages worse. Scale roughens the inside of the waste pipe and gives fat and food something to grip, so runs fur up and narrow over years rather than blocking cleanly in one event. In flats and conversions the kitchen has frequently been moved away from the original stack during a side-return extension, leaving a long shallow-fall waste run that will block repeatedly until the fall or the route is corrected.

Where we work in London

Same price and the same guarantee in every area below. Each has its own page with the streets we cover.

Blocked sink in London, your questions