Hampton Wick's drains run downhill to a riverside sewer that is already busy when it rains hard, so a blockage here often announces itself as a gully that overflows only in a storm. We clear the private run and tell you honestly if the real limit is the public sewer surcharging, which is Thames Water's and free.
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 Hampton Wick
- 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 Hampton Wick
Riverside village at the foot of Kingston Bridge: a high water table, old clay and the occasional sewer surcharge when the river is up.
Hampton Wick is the village on the Middlesex bank at the foot of Kingston Bridge, a KT1 postcode on the TW side of the river. Cottages, riverside terraces and the bigger houses along the park edge all drain through clay runs laid in the Victorian build-out, and all of it sits a few feet above a river that has opinions about the water table.
That shows up in two ways. In dry weather, Hampton Wick drains behave. In a wet week the ground is saturated, the riverside sewer is working hard, and any run that is already half silted gives up. A gully that overflows only in a storm is the classic local call, and the honest answer is sometimes that the private run is fine and the public sewer is surcharging, which is Thames Water’s problem and costs you nothing. We will tell you which.
The other local theme is boundaries. Village plots are small and the old runs cross them freely, so most Hampton Wick blockages involve two households and a question about whose pipe it is. We plot the lateral drain line onto the camera footage so that question gets a factual answer. We cover Hampton Wick day and night from Teddington and Kingston.
We cover all of Hampton Wick (KT1) — from Kingston Bridge, Bushy Park, Hampton Wick station and across Kingston upon Thames, Teddington, Hampton Court. Being genuinely local means we already know what Hampton Wick's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Hampton Wick →