How much does drain jetting cost in Hampton?

Typical domestic jetting in Hampton runs £150 to £300 depending on the length and state of the run. The price is agreed before the van door opens. If it turns out the blockage clears with simpler kit, we use the simpler kit and charge for that instead, which happens often enough to be worth saying.

What's the difference between jetting and rodding?

Rodding squeezes past the blockage, jetting evicts it. A jetting nozzle runs at up to 3,000 psi and strips the pipe wall back to bare clay or plastic, taking grease, soap scale and root fibres with it. Rodding punches a hole through and the pipe stays narrowed, which is why a rodded drain often re-blocks and a jetted one usually doesn't.

Will jetting damage old pipes?

Not when the pressure and nozzle are matched to the pipe, which is the whole skill. We survey or at least inspect first on older clay and cast iron runs, and if a pipe is already cracked we will show you on camera and talk about repair rather than jetting it harder. A drain that is structurally failing needs fixing, not blasting.

How long does jetting last?

Jetting resets a grease-narrowed pipe to effectively day one, so how long it lasts depends entirely on what goes down it afterwards. Kitchens that stop putting fat down the sink can go years. If a jetted drain blocks again within months, grease is not the real problem and something structural is, which is a survey job.

Can jetting deal with tree roots?

Yes, jetting cuts fine root growth back cleanly and it is the usual first answer for root ingress. What it cannot do is stop them coming back, because the roots are getting in through a crack or an open joint that is still there. We will show you the entry point on camera so you can decide whether to keep jetting periodically or seal it properly with a patch liner.

Do you cover Hampton?

Yes, all of TW12, 24 hours a day, from Hampton village and the waterworks riverfront up to Hampton Hill and across to the Hampton Wick borders.

What goes wrong with pipework that old?

Three things, mostly: lime-mortar joints that roots walk straight through, gentle sags where 150 years of ground settlement has let a pipe dip and collect grease, and the occasional surprise where a long-gone builder connected something creatively. Age is not a crisis, but it does mean guessing is a bad strategy and a camera is a good one.

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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

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.

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Victorian cottages and waterworks-era streets with some of the oldest pipes on our patch.

Hampton has water history like nowhere else on our patch. The great Victorian waterworks along the riverfront supplied London its drinking water, and the streets of cottages built around them in the 1850s to 1890s got, naturally, Victorian drains. Parts of Hampton village and Hampton Hill are running waste through some of the oldest clay pipework we ever put a camera into, and honestly, the footage is beautiful. Hand-laid brick inspection chambers turn up under Hampton gardens like little cathedrals. (We photograph them. For the archive. It’s normal.)

Age brings character, and character brings blockages: lime-mortar joints that roots walk straight through, gentle sags where 150 years of ground settlement has let a pipe dip and collect grease, and the odd surprise where a long-gone builder connected something creatively. Between the cottages, the between-wars semis towards Hampton Hill add the usual extension-overload problem, kitchens working drains that were sized for a scullery.

The Bushy Park side contributes magnificent trees and their equally magnificent root systems. All of TW12, village to Hampton Wick borders, is covered 24/7. Old pipes deserve engineers who actually like them, and that is, without competition, us.

We cover all of Hampton (TW12) — from Hampton Court (up the road), Bushy Park, Hampton village and across Hampton Hill, Hampton Wick, Teddington. Being genuinely local means we already know what Hampton's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Hampton →

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