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Blocked Sink in Manchester

Kitchen sinks block with grease, bathroom basins with hair and soap, different blockages, same result.

Blocked sink in Manchester
No call-out feeNo night or weekend surchargeFixed price before we start12-month workmanship guarantee

Cleared properly through the trap and waste run, not just plunged into next week.

What you get

Blocked sink in Manchester: 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.

What this means in Greater Manchester

Local conditions we work around

Manchester drainage is Victorian industrial infrastructure serving housing built for mill workers, and the pattern shows. Terraces frequently share rear drainage runs, so a blockage is often the neighbour's rather than yours and the first job is establishing whose it is before anyone gets a bill. The original salt-glazed clay is still in the ground across much of the city, which means displaced joints and root intrusion, and the hillside districts add long shallow runs that silt up.

Where we do this in Manchester

Covered across Greater Manchester

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.

Straight answers

Blocked sink in Manchester, your questions

What does clearing a sink cost?
£95–£150 fixed. If the blockage turns out to be downstream in the shared run, we quote that separately before touching it.
Why does it smell even when draining fine?
Biofilm in the overflow and waste, clean the visible trap all you like, the overflow channel is the culprit. It's a five-minute extra during the visit.
Boiling water and soda crystals, fine to try?
Soda crystals and hot (not boiling, on plastic) water are the one home remedy we endorse for grease. Caustic soda is the one we beg you to skip, see the drain guide for why.
Will caustic drain cleaner fix it?
On hair in a bathroom trap, sometimes. On kitchen fat, no, it cools and sets further down, adding to the blockage. It also makes the pipework hazardous to open, so please tell us if you have used any before we arrive.
Both my sinks are blocked at once.
Then the problem is downstream of both, in the shared branch or the stack, and no amount of plunging one will help. That is a drainage job rather than a sink job, and it is worth saying on the phone so we bring the right van.
How do I stop it happening again?
Fat into a jar rather than the sink, a strainer over the plughole, and a kettle of hot water plus washing-up liquid weekly. Unglamorous, free, and it prevents almost every kitchen blockage we get called to.
Is Manchester drainage different?
It is Victorian industrial infrastructure serving housing built for mill workers, and it shows. Terraces frequently share rear drainage runs, so a blockage is often the neighbour's rather than yours and the first job is establishing whose it is before anyone gets a bill. Original salt-glazed clay is still in the ground across much of the city, and the hillside districts add long shallow runs that silt.
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