High Street flats above the shops send a lot of grease down a small-bore pipe, and the shared stack behind the parade blocks on a schedule. Jetting scours the run back to clean pipe, which is why we recommend it over rodding for anything that has blocked twice.
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 Hampton Hill
- 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 Hampton Hill
A High Street of Victorian terraces whose shared back-garden runs were laid once, in clay, and never looked at again.
Hampton Hill is the TW12 High Street and its side roads, running from Fulwell up to the Bushy Park gate. Above ground it is independent shops, a theatre and some of the nicest Victorian terraces in the borough. Below ground it is clay, laid in the 1880s and 1890s, shared between neighbours, and visited by the roots of every lime tree on the street.
What we see most here is the shared back-garden run. A Victorian terrace drains each house into a single pipe that runs along the rear gardens before it turns towards the sewer, so the house nearest the obstruction gets the overflow and the house that caused it may never know. Clearing it is quick. Explaining whose pipe it is takes longer, and we are happy to do both.
The flats above the High Street shops add a second pattern: small-bore pipes, several kitchens on one stack, and grease. That stack blocks on a timetable until it is jetted properly, and we would genuinely rather jet it once than rod it four times. We cover every Hampton Hill street, around the clock, from the Hampton and Teddington side of our patch.
We cover all of Hampton Hill (TW12) — from the High Street, Bushy Park (Hampton Hill Gate), Hampton Hill Playhouse and across Hampton, Teddington, Fulwell. Being genuinely local means we already know what Hampton Hill's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Hampton Hill →