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 Sunbury
- 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 Sunbury
Two Sunburys, two drain problems: 60s estate runs upstairs, riverside village pipes below.
Sunbury is really two places, and their drains prove it. Upper Sunbury, around Sunbury Cross and the A308, is 1960s and 70s estate housing: long shared drain runs, plastic-into-clay junctions, and inspection covers distributed with what we can only describe as playful randomness. Blockages here love the junction boxes where several properties’ waste meets, which means your blocked drain is often technically your neighbour’s blocked drain. The camera sorts out the whodunnit without anyone falling out over the fence.
Lower Sunbury, the village end by the Thames and the lock, is a different animal: older cottages and villas with older pipework, mature gardens whose roots have opinions, and the same close-to-the-river water table that keeps all riverside drains working harder than inland ones. It’s also home to some of the best-looking manhole covers on our patch, a sentence we stand behind.
From Kempton Park to the lock, TW16 is covered 24/7. We know which end of Sunbury you’re calling from, what your drains are probably made of, and we’ll give you an honest ETA and a fixed price before anything starts.
We cover all of Sunbury (TW16) — from Sunbury Cross, Lower Sunbury village, Sunbury Lock and across Shepperton, Hampton, Ashford. Being genuinely local means we already know what Sunbury's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Sunbury →