Drainage · 24/7 emergency
Blocked sink, bath or shower, draining again today
Standing water in the kitchen sink, a bath that takes twenty minutes to empty, a shower you stand in. We clear the trap, the waste and the stack, and check where the water actually goes.
Takes 10 seconds. You get a response time for your postcode, not a sales call.
Real 24/7
Our engineers, not a call centre
£49 call-out
Covers the visit and the diagnosis
Quote on site before we start
The engineer prices the job in front of you
£5m public liability
Insured with Churchill
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Sounds familiar?
- Water stands in the sink or shower tray and drains slowly
- Smell from the plughole, worse in warm weather
- Gurgling when another fixture drains
- Water comes back up when the washing machine empties
- A blockage that returns a week after you cleared it
- Two fixtures in the same room slow together
Kitchen sinks block with grease and food; bathroom wastes with hair and soap. Both are easy. A blockage that returns quickly means the stack or the drain beyond it.
What happens when we arrive
1
Find the blockage
Trap, waste pipe or stack. A slow bath with a fine basin usually means the shared waste, not the trap.
2
Clear it
Trap off and cleaned, waste pipe rodded or jetted with a small nozzle, stack cleared from the top if the whole floor is slow.
3
Put it back properly
New trap seals if the old ones are perished, a run test with the tap open, and a check that the overflow works.
What's on the van
- Replacement traps, wastes and seals for standard sizes
- Flexible rods and a small drum machine
- Small-bore jetting nozzles
- Wet vac for the water you can't tip away
- Enzyme treatment for grease
What it can and can't fix
Grease, hair, soap, food and scale all clear. A waste pipe run with too shallow a fall, or a sink plumbed without a proper trap, will keep blocking; we’ll say so and quote to re-run it.
Timing and price
A trap or waste blockage is 20 to 40 minutes. Clearing a stack is about an hour.
There are no prices on this page because the price depends on what we find and where. What we can promise is how it works: the call-out is £49, the engineer looks at the job and quotes it in front of you before touching anything, and the quote you agree is the price on the invoice. If we find something different from what you described, we tell you before continuing. The £49 call-out covers the visit and the diagnosis.
There are no prices on this page because the price depends on what we find and where. What we can promise is how it works: the call-out is £49, the engineer looks at the job and quotes it in front of you before touching anything, and the quote you agree is the price on the invoice. If we find something different from what you described, we tell you before continuing. The £49 call-out covers the visit and the diagnosis.
12-month guaranteeOn all workmanship, in writing, on the invoice
Check your postcode in 10 seconds
Same checker as the top of the page. No account, no callback queue.
Often needed with this
Sinks, basins and waste
Leaking wastes, cracked traps, slow drains. Sorted without a new kitchen.
Blocked drains
Cleared the same day with rods or high-pressure jetting, then camera-checked so it stays clear.
Showers and baths
Mixer valves, cartridges, wastes and pressure problems. Plumbing side only, no electric showers.
FAQs
Asked on the phone
Enzyme products are fine. Caustic soda and acid unblockers damage plastic wastes and make the job dangerous for the engineer. Don’t use them on a fully blocked sink.
Usually soap scale in the waste pipe past the trap, which needs rodding or jetting rather than a hair catcher.
Yes, and if two rooms are slow at once it’s the stack or the drain, so we’ll check the manhole too.
Yes, from stock on the van, at the price quoted on site.
The machine waste is teed into the sink waste. It needs a proper standpipe or the shared run clearing. We do both.
If the blockage is beyond the stack, yes. That’s part of the visit, not a second call-out.
Water rising or coming through the ceiling right now?
Don’t fill in a form. Call, and an engineer will be on the road in minutes. We’ll talk you through the stopcock while they drive.
Also need plumbing?
Same engineers, same van, same visit.