King Street and the Broadway are dense with restaurants and flats above shops, and small old pipes carrying that much grease block on a schedule. Planned jetting on a commercial run keeps the kitchen open; an emergency jet at 2am on a Saturday keeps us in business, but we would rather you had the first one.
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 Hammersmith
- 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 Hammersmith
Brackenbury's Victorian terraces, Georgian riverside houses on the Mall, mansion blocks and new towers: four drainage systems in one postcode.
Hammersmith, W6, packs four kinds of drainage into one postcode. Brackenbury Village and the streets around Ravenscourt Park are Victorian terraces on shared clay runs, converted and extended for a century. The Lower and Upper Mall have Georgian and Victorian houses on the river with some of the oldest private drainage in west London. The main roads carry mansion blocks with shared stacks, and the Broadway is ringed with new towers whose communal runs are still finding out what the builders left in them.
Terrace calls are the familiar converted-house story: four kitchens on a pipe laid for one, grease from the top flat, a flooded kitchen in the garden flat. Riverside calls add a high water table that lifts silt into every moved joint each winter, and the question of where a very old private drain becomes Thames Water’s lateral. The camera answers both.
King Street and the Broadway are a grease story. Restaurants and flats above shops on small old pipes produce fatbergs we find professionally fascinating and tenants find expensive, and a planned jetting schedule on a commercial run beats the Saturday-night flood every time. We cover Hammersmith and Brackenbury at any hour from the Chiswick and Barnes side of our patch.
We cover all of Hammersmith (W6) — from Hammersmith Broadway, King Street, Hammersmith Bridge and across Chiswick, Fulham, Shepherd's Bush. Being genuinely local means we already know what Hammersmith's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Hammersmith →