Blocked Drain
Plumber Sydney - Cleared Fast,
Priced Upfront

It depends on where the blockage is and what is causing it: a kitchen sink trap is a smaller job than a sewer line full of tree roots. We give you one fixed price after the plumber has looked, before any work starts, and there is nothing to pay just for us to come and look during business hours. Our blocked drain cost guide explains what decides the price.

Jet blasting is priced as a fixed job, not by the hour, so a stubborn blockage costs the same as a quick one. The price depends on the length of the run and the access, and it includes the CCTV camera check after the clear with any booked drain service. You get the number before the hose goes in.

On a slow basin with a hair or soap build-up, sometimes. On a real blockage, rarely: the chemical sits on top of it, and on older pipes it corrodes the joints and turns a clearing job into a repair. A plunger is a safer first try. If the water is still slow, or more than one drain is affected, call a plumber. Our guide on how to unblock a drain covers what works and what damages pipes.

Water draining slowly from sinks, showers or baths, gurgling from the drains, a bad smell from a drain or an outside grate, water pooling around a floor waste, or a toilet that will not flush properly. If more than one drain in the house is slow at the same time, it is usually the main sewer line, and that needs clearing before it backs up inside. If a flood follows, our guide on blocked drains and home insurance explains what policies pay for.

Tree roots growing into old clay joints, fat and grease setting hard in kitchen lines, wet wipes and other things that should never have been flushed, hair and soap in bathroom drains, cracked or collapsed pipes, and heavy rain overwhelming stormwater pits. The camera check after the clear shows you which one it was.

Almost always. A slow drain today can be a fully blocked pipe or a sewage backup next week: roots keep growing, grease keeps building up and a partial blockage traps more behind it. Clearing it early with the jet blaster is a far smaller job than an overflow inside the house.

It is when sewage is backing up into the house, a floor is flooding, or more than one fixture is overflowing at once. We run emergency drain unblocking 24/7 across Sydney for exactly that. After-hours and weekend call-outs may attract a fee at our discretion, and we always confirm that with you before we attend.

Recurring blockages almost always mean a structural problem rather than a one off: roots at a joint, a crack or a sag. After the camera run we tell you honestly whether it needs pipe relining or a section repaired, and quote it upfront. Clearing the same drain every few months costs more than fixing it once.

Never pour cooking oil or grease down the sink, use strainers to catch hair and food scraps, keep wet wipes and sanitary products out of the toilet even when the packet says flushable, and if you have big trees near the sewer line, have it checked on camera before roots block it again.