What we do
Nine things, grouped by where on a drain run they actually happen. Start at the sink and work down.
Under the sink
Where a slow drain usually starts, and often ends.
- Blocked sinksA slow sink is almost always fat, soap and food waste building up on the inside of the waste pipe until the bore is down to a few millimetres.
- Blocked toiletsA blocked toilet is either the pan itself or the drain it discharges into, and the difference matters because they are very different jobs.
The gully and the chamber
The first place a run backs up, and the first lid we lift.
- Blocked drainsAn outside drain that backs up is usually telling you something specific. Where it backs up, and how fast, narrows down the cause before we lift a single lid.
- Blocked manholesA manhole standing full is the clearest signal you get. It means the run downstream of that chamber is blocked, and the chamber is doing exactly what it was built to do by showing you where.
Along the buried run
Roots at the joints, grease on the walls, a fracture in the pipe. None of it visible from the surface.
Inside the pipe
Repaired from within, so the drive stays where it is.
- Drain reliningRelining repairs a broken pipe from the inside. A resin-soaked liner is drawn into the damaged section, inflated against the existing pipe and left to cure, forming a new pipe within the old one.
- Patch repairsA patch repair is a short liner used to fix one defect rather than a whole run. If a single joint has opened or one section has cracked, there is no sense in lining thirty metres of sound pipe.
When it has to come up
Collapsed or displaced pipework, dug, replaced and reinstated.
Any hour
Drains do not fail at convenient times.
24 hours, 7 days a week
Ring and describe what it is doing.
We can usually tell you what is likely wrong before we set off, and roughly what it will take to put right.
0113 418 2819
No call-out charge. We only charge from arrival.