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 Sunbury
- 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 Sunbury
Two Sunburys, two drain problems: 60s estate runs upstairs, riverside village pipes below.
Sunbury is really two places, and their drains prove it. Upper Sunbury, around Sunbury Cross and the A308, is 1960s and 70s estate housing: long shared drain runs, plastic-into-clay junctions, and inspection covers distributed with what we can only describe as playful randomness. Blockages here love the junction boxes where several properties’ waste meets, which means your blocked drain is often technically your neighbour’s blocked drain. The camera sorts out the whodunnit without anyone falling out over the fence.
Lower Sunbury, the village end by the Thames and the lock, is a different animal: older cottages and villas with older pipework, mature gardens whose roots have opinions, and the same close-to-the-river water table that keeps all riverside drains working harder than inland ones. It’s also home to some of the best-looking manhole covers on our patch, a sentence we stand behind.
From Kempton Park to the lock, TW16 is covered 24/7. We know which end of Sunbury you’re calling from, what your drains are probably made of, and we’ll give you an honest ETA and a fixed price before anything starts.
We cover all of Sunbury (TW16) — from Sunbury Cross, Lower Sunbury village, Sunbury Lock and across Shepperton, Hampton, Ashford. Being genuinely local means we already know what Sunbury's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Sunbury →