Drain trouble in Roehampton? We answer 24/7.

Roehampton is the western end of SW15, where Putney Heath meets Richmond Park, and it is really two drainage systems. On one side of Roehampton Lane is the Alton Estate, one of the largest post-war estates in London, where blocks and maisonettes share stacks and underground runs and a blockage is a communal event. On the other are interwar villas, the university’s grounds and newer flats, draining through older clay under big gardens with the park’s trees alongside.

Estate calls are about finding the right pipe. A ground-floor flat backing up is usually a shared run or a stack serving several homes, and the fix is to clear it from the correct chamber and give the managing agent a straight account of what was in it, so the next flush is somebody else’s lesson. We do not plunge shared stacks. It sends the problem upstairs.

Villa calls are about roots and old joints. Richmond Park’s oaks and the mature gardens along the lane have been exploring the clay for a century, and the camera settles whether a repeat blockage is roots, a dropped joint or a collapse. We cover all of Roehampton from the Putney and Barnes side, around the clock.