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 Wick
- 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 Wick
Riverside village at the foot of Kingston Bridge: a high water table, old clay and the occasional sewer surcharge when the river is up.
Hampton Wick is the village on the Middlesex bank at the foot of Kingston Bridge, a KT1 postcode on the TW side of the river. Cottages, riverside terraces and the bigger houses along the park edge all drain through clay runs laid in the Victorian build-out, and all of it sits a few feet above a river that has opinions about the water table.
That shows up in two ways. In dry weather, Hampton Wick drains behave. In a wet week the ground is saturated, the riverside sewer is working hard, and any run that is already half silted gives up. A gully that overflows only in a storm is the classic local call, and the honest answer is sometimes that the private run is fine and the public sewer is surcharging, which is Thames Water’s problem and costs you nothing. We will tell you which.
The other local theme is boundaries. Village plots are small and the old runs cross them freely, so most Hampton Wick blockages involve two households and a question about whose pipe it is. We plot the lateral drain line onto the camera footage so that question gets a factual answer. We cover Hampton Wick day and night from Teddington and Kingston.
We cover all of Hampton Wick (KT1) — from Kingston Bridge, Bushy Park, Hampton Wick station and across Kingston upon Thames, Teddington, Hampton Court. Being genuinely local means we already know what Hampton Wick's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Hampton Wick →