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 Cobham
- 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 Cobham
A village on the River Mole with large houses, private treatment plants on the outer plots and clay runs under some very expensive lawns.
Cobham, KT11, is a Surrey village on the River Mole with a Victorian High Street, large houses along the Fairmile and the Oxshott road, and newer estates and rebuilds spreading across Stoke d’Abernon. It is the far south-western edge of our patch and, underground, it is mostly about distance. Private runs on the bigger plots travel a long way under lawns, drives and gates before they reach the road, and a handful of outer properties are not on the mains sewer at all.
That is why we ask more questions on a Cobham call than most. Where the house is, how far it sits from the road, whether there is a treatment plant or a septic tank, and whether the drain has blocked before. The answers decide which van comes. A thirty-metre run under a Fairmile drive needs the long-reach jetting kit and the camera on the first visit, not the second.
The pipework is a mix: original clay under the older houses, new plastic from the rebuilds, and joints between the two of varying quality. A survey before you buy, build or claim is the cheapest thing you will do on a Cobham house, and when a repair is needed we reline rather than dig, because the gardens here deserve it. We cover Cobham, Oxshott and Stoke d’Abernon at any hour.
We cover all of Cobham (KT11) — from Cobham High Street, Painshill Park, the River Mole and across Oxshott, Esher, Stoke d'Abernon. Being genuinely local means we already know what Cobham's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Cobham →