High-pressure water jetting is the most satisfying thing we do, and given how much we enjoy the rest of the job, that’s a serious claim. A jetting nozzle runs at up to 3,000 psi and doesn’t just punch a hole through a blockage the way a rod does. It strips the pipe wall back to bare clay or plastic: grease, soap scale, root fibres, the lot, flushed out and gone.
Think of rodding as squeezing past the fatberg and jetting as evicting it.
When jetting is the right call:
- Grease and fat build-up in kitchen runs. This is most TW blockages. Grease doesn’t block a pipe overnight; it narrows it for years, and jetting resets the clock to day one.
- Root ingress. Fine roots from street trees and mature gardens find their way into pipe joints (a speciality of the leafier TW streets). Jetting cuts them back cleanly. If they’ve cracked the pipe, we’ll show you on camera and talk repair options honestly.
- Recurring blockages. If you’re on first-name terms with a plunger, the pipe is narrowed somewhere. One proper jet is cheaper than four call-outs.
- Scale in older pipes. Hard south-west London water leaves limescale in cast iron and clay runs. Jetting removes it without digging anything up.
What it costs: typical domestic jetting in the TW area runs £150–£300 depending on the length and state of the run. Price agreed up front, before the van door even opens. If a blockage clears with simpler kit, we use the simpler kit and charge for that instead.
What to do right now in Ashford
- If the drain is completely blocked and backing up, stop adding water and call us. Jetting is usually how we'll clear it.
- Recurring slow drains are the classic sign a pipe needs jetting rather than another bottle of one-shot unblocker.
- Don't rent a pressure washer and improvise. Domestic washers can't reach the blockage and the wrong nozzle can damage older pipes.
Drain Jetting help, local to Ashford
1930s semis on clay subsoil: seasonal ground movement works pipe joints loose.
Ashford is thirties semi country, street after street of them off Church Road and Clockhouse Lane, and those houses sit on the heavy clay subsoil this corner of Surrey is famous for. Clay swells in wet winters and shrinks in dry summers, and the ground quietly flexes the drains with it. Year after year that movement works the joints of the original clay pipes loose, which is why Ashford gives us more displaced joints and slow-building blockages than almost anywhere on our patch.
The other local signature is the garden. Ashford’s plots are generous by London standards, and seventy years of hedges, fruit trees and leylandii have had exactly the same idea as every root system before them: there’s water in that pipe. Root ingress into back-garden drain runs, often unnoticed until the gully overflows, is a weekly Ashford job for us.
The happy news is that both problems are very fixable, usually without turning your lawn into a trench. A camera survey finds the exact joint, jetting clears the roots, and a patch line seals the entry point. TW15 is covered 24/7, we know the roads (and the roots), and we answer when you call.
We cover all of Ashford (TW15) — from Ashford High Street, Clockhouse Lane, Fordbridge Park and across Staines, Sunbury, Feltham. Being genuinely local means we already know what Ashford's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Ashford →