Water sitting in the bowl after dinner.
About blocked drains
Most blocked drains in Sydney homes are a mix of roots, wipes and fat sitting well past the reach of a plunger. We open the nearest access point, cut the blockage out with the electric drain machine or the jet blaster, flush the line and run water to prove it. If it has blocked before, the camera goes down to show you why. You see the price in writing first.
A plunger works on the trap and the first stretch of pipe. A bottle of drain cleaner works on the top layer of whatever it lands on. Most house drain blockages form metres away, at a joint where a root has come in or a dip where the pipe has settled, built up in layers of paper, wipes, fat and hair. The NSW Poisons Information Centre lists drain cleaners among the household products that can poison you by breathing, touching or swallowing. The jet blaster and the drain machine go to where the blockage actually is and take it off the pipe wall.
More about blocked drains
A Federation terrace in the Inner West or the Eastern Suburbs usually sits on clay pipe, often shared with the neighbours, and roots love those joints. Post-war brick homes across St George, Canterbury-Bankstown and Ryde often have clay or early cast iron. Newer homes on slab in the west tend to have PVC, which blocks less often but still takes fat and wipes. On the North Shore and in the Hills, big canopy means roots. Tell us the rough age of the house and what grows in the yard, and we bring the right head for the pipe.
