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 Worcester Park
- 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 Worcester Park
A 1930s suburb on a hillside above the Hogsmill: steep runs that scour themselves and flat ones at the bottom that never do.
Worcester Park, KT4, is a 1930s railway suburb that climbs from the Hogsmill valley up to Cheam, and from a drain’s point of view the hill is the whole character of the place. Runs on the slope have a good fall and tend to look after themselves. Runs in the valley bottom along Central Road and towards Old Malden are flat, silt up quietly, and are the first to back up when the Hogsmill is high and the surface water system is full.
The houses themselves are the familiar interwar story: long gardens, shallow clay runs, and ninety years of clay-soil movement opening the joints. A dropped joint catches debris, roots find it, and the blockage returns on a schedule until the joint is found and lined. The camera finds it in minutes, and the survey is also the sensible first step before the extension that half of KT4 seems to be building.
We would always rather reline than dig here. Worcester Park gardens are long and well kept, and a trench fifteen metres down the lawn to reach one joint is exactly what relining exists to avoid. We cover Worcester Park and Old Malden around the clock.
We cover all of Worcester Park (KT4) — from Central Road, Worcester Park station, the Hogsmill River and across New Malden, Cheam, Stoneleigh. Being genuinely local means we already know what Worcester Park's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Worcester Park →