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 Feltham
- 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 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 →