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

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.

Covered across London

Same published rate card and the same twelve-month workmanship guarantee everywhere below, there is no postcode loading. Each area has its own page with an arrival time taken from our job records rather than chosen for a website.

Blocked sink in London, your questions