Esher plots are big, so the private drain from the house to the road can run forty metres with several changes of direction under lawns and driveways. A blockage halfway down is nowhere near the gully, and rods will not reach it. We locate it with the camera first and jet from the right chamber.
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 Esher
- 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 Esher
Large plots, long private runs and a lot of rebuilding: the drains in Esher are either brand new or very old, and both kinds block.
Esher, KT10, is big houses on big plots between Sandown Park and the Claremont estate, with Edwardian and 1930s homes in Claygate and Hinchley Wood and a constant programme of rebuilding and extending across the whole area. From underground, the town is two kinds of drain. The old ones are 1930s clay runs that have had ninety years of clay-soil movement. The new ones are plastic, laid last year, and already blocked by builders’ debris or a joint that was never glued.
Both kinds have the same complication: length. An Esher private drain can run forty metres from the house to the road, under lawns, driveways and the occasional tennis court, with a few changes of direction along the way. A blockage halfway down is nowhere near any gully and no rod will reach it. We locate it with the camera first, clear it from the right chamber, and only then talk about what caused it.
We also do a lot of pre-build work here. Before a basement, an extension or a new drive goes in, a survey tells you what the run looks like and whether you are about to build over a problem. We reline rather than dig wherever we can, because nobody wants a trench through an Esher garden. We cover Esher, Claygate and Hinchley Wood at any hour.
We cover all of Esher (KT10) — from Esher High Street, Sandown Park, Claremont Landscape Garden and across Claygate, Hinchley Wood, Thames Ditton. Being genuinely local means we already know what Esher's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Esher →