Blocked drain Manchester

A blocked drain has a way of announcing itself at the worst moment: a sink that will not empty while you are cooking, a gully overflowing in the yard, or waste water backing up into the bath. We clear blocked drains across Manchester the same day, using the right tool for the job, and just as importantly we find out why it blocked so we can tell you whether it was a one-off or something that needs proper attention.

Where the blockage is tells us a lot

Not all blocked drains are the same problem. A single blocked sink manchester is usually fat, grease and food waste in the kitchen, or hair and soap in the bathroom, congealed in the trap or the branch pipe, and those are often cleared quickly. A drain that backs up across several fittings, or overflows from an outside gully, points to a blockage in the underground drain that serves the whole property. That is a different job, and the cause is often more serious: wet wipes that have snagged and built up, tree and shrub roots growing in through cracked joints, silt settling over years, or a clay pipe that has cracked, collapsed or slipped out of line.

Working out which you have is the first thing we do, because clearing a sink trap and jetting a collapsed underground drain are worlds apart.

How we clear it

We match the method to the blockage. For sinks and internal waste pipes we clear the trap and rod the branch. For underground drains we use drain rods to break through mechanically, then high-pressure water jetting to cut through fat, roots and silt and scour the inside of the pipe back to clean. Jetting does far more than punch a hole through the blockage, it strips the pipe walls so the drain flows properly again rather than blocking once more in a fortnight.

What we do not rely on is caustic drain cleaner. On a solid blockage it rarely works, and it leaves a hazard for anyone who has to open the pipe. Proper rodding and jetting clears the drain without the risk.

When it keeps coming back

If a drain blocks repeatedly in the same place, clearing it again and again is throwing money at a symptom. There is nearly always a physical fault behind it: a cracked or collapsed section, a displaced joint, roots growing in, or a poor fall so waste sits rather than flows. For those cases we put a CCTV drain camera down to see exactly what is happening, then we can tell you precisely what needs repairing rather than guessing. This kind of investigation and repair is part of the wider drain unblocking manchester service we run across the region.

Manchester's drains

The city's drainage reflects its age. In the Victorian terraces of Gorton, Openshaw, Longsight, Levenshulme and the inner belt, we regularly deal with old clay pipework that has cracked and let roots in, and with shared drains that serve several houses, where the real blockage sits outside your own boundary. In newer developments around the city centre and Salford the pipes are plastic and better laid, but wet wipes and fat still cause the same jams. Knowing the drainage helps us reach the cause quickly.

When the toilet is the first sign

Often the first thing you notice is not the drain at all but the toilet, backing up or refusing to clear because the blockage is further down the system. If that is how it starts, our blocked toilet manchester service clears the immediate problem and traces whether the fault is in the toilet, the soil pipe or the underground drain. And where a blockage or a drain fault has let water escape and leak inside, our leak repair manchester service deals with that side of things too.

Fast, local, fairly priced

A backing-up drain is not something to leave, especially with waste water involved. If it is already surging into the house, our emergency drain unblocking service turns out 24 hours a day. Otherwise we aim to reach you the same day, wherever you are across the areas we cover, from the city centre out to the surrounding towns, and we carry rods and jetting equipment to clear the great majority of blockages on the first visit. We confirm the price before we start, and you can see how we charge on our plumber call out fee page. Call us the moment a drain starts backing up and we will get it flowing again.