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 Weybridge
- 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 Weybridge
Two rivers, a Victorian town centre and the big estates on St George's Hill: long runs, old clay and a water table with two sources.
Weybridge, KT13, sits where the Wey meets the Thames, with a Victorian and Edwardian centre around Monument Green, interwar streets towards Hersham, and the private estates of St George’s Hill above it all. Two rivers mean a water table with two sources, and the ground under the town centre is saturated for much of the winter. Old clay runs with any dropped joint take on silt every wet season, and the first storm of the autumn is when we hear from Weybridge.
The honest version of a lot of those calls is that the private drain is clear and the surface water system is backed up because the rivers are high. We will say so rather than clear a clean pipe. When the drain is the problem, the camera finds the joint with the silt behind it and lining it stops the annual repeat.
Up the hill it is a different job: long private runs under big plots and gated drives, a mix of 1930s clay and plastic from recent rebuilds, and a blockage that can be thirty metres from the nearest gully. We survey the full line, clear from the correct chamber and reline rather than dig, because nobody on St George’s Hill wants a trench across the lawn. We cover Weybridge, Hersham and Addlestone around the clock from the Walton side.
We cover all of Weybridge (KT13) — from Monument Green, St George's Hill, Brooklands and across Walton-on-Thames, Addlestone, Hersham. Being genuinely local means we already know what Weybridge's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Weybridge →