Up the hill, Wimbledon Village drains are long private runs under big gardens with the Common's trees alongside, and a blockage can be thirty metres from any gully. Down the hill, the Broadway and South Wimbledon are converted terraces on shared clay, where the ground-floor flat floods for the top flat's habits. Tell us which Wimbledon you are in.
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 Wimbledon
- 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 Wimbledon
Two towns in one postcode: the Village on the hill with long runs under big gardens, and the terraces and flats below it on shared Victorian clay.
Wimbledon, SW19, is two places with different pipes. Up the hill, the Village and the Common are large Victorian and Edwardian houses on big plots, with long private runs, mature gardens and the Common’s oaks exploring every joint. Down the hill, the Broadway, South Wimbledon and Wimbledon Park are Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many converted into flats, plus post-war estates and new blocks around the station. We ask which Wimbledon you are in before we choose the van.
Hill calls are about distance and roots. A blockage on a thirty-metre run under a lawn is nowhere near a gully, rods will not reach it, and the camera has to find it first. Repeat blockages are almost always a root mat at a joint the clay soil has opened, and lining that joint is what ends the annual visit. With basements and extensions going in all over the hill, a survey before the works is the cheapest decision in the project.
Down-the-hill calls are about sharing. Converted terraces put four kitchens on one Victorian run and the ground-floor flat is the first to know when the top flat pours the fat away. We clear from the external chamber, jet rather than rod, and give the freeholder footage rather than an opinion. We cover all of SW19 at any hour from the Putney and Kingston side of our patch.
We cover all of Wimbledon (SW19) — from Wimbledon Village, the Common, the Broadway and across Southfields, Raynes Park, Putney. Being genuinely local means we already know what Wimbledon's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Wimbledon →