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 Chiswick
- 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 Chiswick
Bedford Park's garden suburb, Strand-on-the-Green's riverside cottages and Grove Park's terraces: conservation-area drains with a river at the end of the street.
Chiswick, W4, borders Brentford and Kew along the river and has some of the most varied housing in west London: Bedford Park, the first garden suburb, with its Victorian houses and mature trees; Georgian and Victorian cottages along the river at Strand-on-the-Green; Edwardian terraces in Grove Park; 1930s semis towards Acton; and new blocks along the High Road. Below ground it is clay runs of every age, a water table that follows the river, and trees that have had a century and a half to find the joints.
The autumn call is the Chiswick classic. A Grove Park or Bedford Park drain that behaved all summer backs up in the first wet November week, because the water table has risen into the backfill and lifted silt into a joint that moved years ago. The camera finds the joint, often with a root tendril already in it, and lining it is what stops the annual repeat.
Bedford Park and Strand-on-the-Green are conservation areas, so we work the way the houses deserve: surveys through the existing chambers, relining rather than excavation, and footage kept for the insurer or the buyer. The High Road’s flats above shops add the grease-and-shared-stack pattern we know from everywhere else. We cover Chiswick, Grove Park and Strand-on-the-Green at any hour from the Brentford and Kew side of our patch.
We cover all of Chiswick (W4) — from Chiswick High Road, Turnham Green, Bedford Park and across Brentford, Kew, Hammersmith. Being genuinely local means we already know what Chiswick's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Chiswick →