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 Heston
- 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 Heston
Interwar semis, a lot of HMOs and converted houses, and drains that now serve twice the households they were laid for.
Heston is the northern half of Hounslow, TW5, between the A4 and the M4, a suburb of interwar semis and terraces that has quietly become one of the most densely occupied parts of the borough. Houses built for one family now hold two or three households, and the drains underneath them were never consulted.
That is the Heston pattern. A clay run laid for one kitchen now takes three, the grease load has tripled, the wipes have arrived, and a pipe that behaved for seventy years blocks twice a winter. Clearing it is easy. The useful part of the visit is telling the landlord what the run can actually cope with, and which of the added bathrooms is on a long, shallow waste that will keep blocking until it is re-laid.
We do a lot of landlord work here as a result: surveys before a tenancy starts, surveys when a deposit dispute needs a referee, and clearances with a written account of what came out. Tenants can call us directly too. We cover Heston, Cranford and Lampton around the clock from our Hounslow side.
We cover all of Heston (TW5) — from Heston Road, Heston Park, the M4 at Heston and across Hounslow, Cranford, Osterley. Being genuinely local means we already know what Heston's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Heston →