A blocked toilet is the most honest emergency in the house. There’s no pretending it isn’t happening, there’s usually a queue forming, and there is a very specific moment of dread just before you look into the bowl and flush. (Don’t flush. See the steps above. We’ve mopped up too many optimists.)
Here’s what makes us different from every other number you could ring: we genuinely don’t mind. Not in the gritted-teeth, “someone’s got to do it” way. Blocked toilets and sinks are quick, solvable, satisfying puzzles, and the person arriving at your door is pleased to be there. No sighing at you, no “what did you put down here then” interrogation. You’re having a bad morning; we’re having a normal Tuesday.
Toilets block on the usual suspects: wet wipes (even the “flushable” ones, which flush in the same sense that a brick technically flies), kids’ toys, air fresheners that dive off the cistern, and too much paper. Most clear in under an hour with the right tools rather than a supermarket plunger.
Sinks are almost always fat and food in the kitchen, or hair and soap in the bathroom, packed into the trap or the first bend. If more than one fixture is draining slowly at once, the problem is further down the line, and we’ll find it rather than just emptying the trap and hoping.
What it costs: most blocked toilets and sinks in the TW area run £80–£160, with out-of-hours visits from £150. Price agreed before we start, fixed when we finish. If it turns out the real problem is the main drain, we’ll show you, explain the options, and never charge twice for one problem.
What to do right now in Feltham
- Don't flush again 'to see'. If the bowl is full, a second flush has exactly one place to go, and it's your bathroom floor.
- Turn off the water to a filling toilet at the isolation valve on the inlet pipe (small screw or lever), or hold the float arm up inside the cistern.
- For a blocked sink, stop the taps and don't reach for caustic soda. It generates heat, can damage the trap, and makes the pipe dangerous to work on.
- Call us. Describing the problem is our job to make easy, and no, whatever it is, it will not be the worst thing we've seen this week.
Blocked Toilet & Sink help, local to Feltham
Postwar estates on shallow shared runs, plus newer infill builds squeezed onto old drainage.
Feltham is postwar Britain in drainage form. The estates that went up through the 40s, 50s and 60s around Hanworth Park and Bedfont were built quickly, and their drains were too: shallow runs, long shared branches, and inspection chambers that half a century of garden landscaping has quietly buried. A good portion of our Feltham visits start with finding a manhole cover under someone’s decking. (We enjoy this. It’s basically archaeology.)
Shared runs mean shared problems. On the older terraced rows one household’s wet-wipe habit becomes four households’ blocked drain, and the blockage often sits under a neighbour’s garden rather than yours. We’re used to untangling whose drain is whose, and the survey camera settles arguments faster than any fence-line conversation.
Newer Feltham adds a different flavour: infill developments and flats near the station connect modern plastic pipework into drainage that was already working hard in 1965. The junctions where new meets old are where things snag. Wherever your blockage sits in TW13 or TW14, we cover Feltham, Hanworth and Bedfont 24/7 and we arrive already interested.
We cover all of Feltham (TW13, TW14) — from Feltham High Street, Hanworth Park, Bedfont Lakes and across Hanworth, Bedfont, Ashford. Being genuinely local means we already know what Feltham's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Feltham →