A blocked drain never fixes itself. It builds. Grease, wipes, roots and forty years of “it’ll be fine” collect in the pipe until one morning the shower is ankle-deep and the kitchen smells like something died under the floor.
Here’s the part we should probably keep to ourselves: we find blockages genuinely interesting. Every blocked drain is a little mystery. Is it a fatberg? Tree roots that found a joint in a Victorian clay pipe? A toy dinosaur? (Real find. His name is Trevor now.) The point is, the job everyone else dreads is the one we turn up excited about, with the right kit to solve it first visit.
We clear the blockage at its source, not just poke it further down the pipe to become next month’s call-out. If more than one drain is backing up at once, that usually points to the main run between your house and the sewer, and we handle that too.
What it costs: most straightforward domestic blockages in the TW area run £90–£180, rising to £150–£250 for middle-of-the-night call-outs. You get a price on the phone or at the door before any work starts, and it doesn’t change when we’re covered in the evidence.
One honest note: standing water from a blocked drain is a health hazard, and foul water backing up indoors can damage floors and walls quickly. The sooner it’s cleared, the smaller the bill. Day or night, we answer.
What to do right now in Ashford
- Stop running water into the affected drain, sink or toilet. Every litre you add has nowhere to go.
- If an outside gully is overflowing, keep children and pets away from the standing water.
- Don't pour chemical unblocker into a fully blocked drain. It sits in the pipe, and whoever clears it (us, happily) gets a face full of it.
- Call us. We'll give you an honest ETA and talk you through anything urgent while we're on the way.
Blocked Drain help, local to Ashford
1930s semis on clay subsoil: seasonal ground movement works pipe joints loose.
Ashford is thirties semi country, street after street of them off Church Road and Clockhouse Lane, and those houses sit on the heavy clay subsoil this corner of Surrey is famous for. Clay swells in wet winters and shrinks in dry summers, and the ground quietly flexes the drains with it. Year after year that movement works the joints of the original clay pipes loose, which is why Ashford gives us more displaced joints and slow-building blockages than almost anywhere on our patch.
The other local signature is the garden. Ashford’s plots are generous by London standards, and seventy years of hedges, fruit trees and leylandii have had exactly the same idea as every root system before them: there’s water in that pipe. Root ingress into back-garden drain runs, often unnoticed until the gully overflows, is a weekly Ashford job for us.
The happy news is that both problems are very fixable, usually without turning your lawn into a trench. A camera survey finds the exact joint, jetting clears the roots, and a patch line seals the entry point. TW15 is covered 24/7, we know the roads (and the roots), and we answer when you call.
We cover all of Ashford (TW15) — from Ashford High Street, Clockhouse Lane, Fordbridge Park and across Staines, Sunbury, Feltham. Being genuinely local means we already know what Ashford's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Ashford →