Drain trouble in Hammersmith? We answer 24/7.

Hammersmith, W6, packs four kinds of drainage into one postcode. Brackenbury Village and the streets around Ravenscourt Park are Victorian terraces on shared clay runs, converted and extended for a century. The Lower and Upper Mall have Georgian and Victorian houses on the river with some of the oldest private drainage in west London. The main roads carry mansion blocks with shared stacks, and the Broadway is ringed with new towers whose communal runs are still finding out what the builders left in them.

Terrace calls are the familiar converted-house story: four kitchens on a pipe laid for one, grease from the top flat, a flooded kitchen in the garden flat. Riverside calls add a high water table that lifts silt into every moved joint each winter, and the question of where a very old private drain becomes Thames Water’s lateral. The camera answers both.

King Street and the Broadway are a grease story. Restaurants and flats above shops on small old pipes produce fatbergs we find professionally fascinating and tenants find expensive, and a planned jetting schedule on a commercial run beats the Saturday-night flood every time. We cover Hammersmith and Brackenbury at any hour from the Chiswick and Barnes side of our patch.