Cleared the same day where we can, then filmed, so you find out whether you had a one-off or something down there that will do it again.
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A machine through an access point will open almost any blocked line, and that part of the visit is quick. What it does not tell you is whether you have solved anything.
A line that has been cleared is open today. If something in it caused the blockage, a defect collecting material, a bend where material stalls, a joint that has opened, then it is open today and it will do exactly the same thing in a few months.
In Croydon's older housing there is a specific version of this worth knowing about. Original bathrooms were set out for the fixtures of their own era, and where one has been reworked around modern fittings the waste can end up with lengths and bends the original layout never contemplated. Sometimes that is fine. Sometimes it is why the same fixture blocks every winter.
Which is why the camera goes down after the clearance rather than instead of it. It costs an extra part of an hour and it is the difference between a call-out and an answer.
Then the clearance is not the job. Say so when you ring and we will bring the camera on the first visit rather than the second.
The largest single cause of what we clear, regardless of what the box on the shelf says about flushability. They stay intact, they snag, and they hold everything that follows.
Kitchen fat is the slower version, cooling onto the wall and narrowing the bore a fraction at a time until a line that had been getting worse for a year finally stops.
Most visits here are exactly that, and clearing it is the whole job. The rest of this page is about the minority that is not.
One blockage is an event. Three in the same fixture is a defect telling you about itself, and clearing it a fourth time is buying the same afternoon again.
Keep a rough note of the dates if you can. Three in a year at the same point is a much stronger piece of information than a general sense that it happens a lot.
That is the trigger for filming rather than clearing, and it is the point where the money starts being well spent.
Original layouts were set out for the fixtures of their day, and the waste under a Federation bathroom expects a particular basin in a particular place with a particular trap.
A modern fitting rarely lands where the existing waste expects it. So the pipe gets extended, redirected or reduced in fall to reach the new position.
That is where the defects are on this housing. Not the age of the original work, the compromises made to reach a new fixture.
A waste needs a consistent grade to carry solids as well as water. Every extension or redirection to reach a new fixture position takes a little of that grade away.
Enough of it and the line holds material instead of moving it, which produces a fixture that blocks repeatedly for no obvious reason and clears easily every time.
It is the single most common finding behind a recurring blockage in a renovated bathroom here.
An original bathroom and a bathroom redone in 1998 are different problems, and knowing which one you have points the camera at the right five metres immediately.
It is not a criticism of whoever did the work. Reaching a new fixture position within an existing floor is genuinely difficult and everybody involved was doing their best.
It is simply the most useful thing you can tell us about the property.
Sound pipe does not get broken into. A joint that has already moved gets found, and older jointed lines offer one every metre for a root to try.
Street trees and established gardens both contribute, and on housing of this age the planting has frequently had eighty or ninety years over the same line.
The durable repair removes the opening rather than this season's growth, and it does not ask you to take a tree out.
With an outside inspection opening, the work is done from the garden, quickly, and nothing indoors is touched. Without one we work back through a fixture, which takes longer and costs more.
On this housing the opening is usually a capped riser near the boundary, and it is frequently under a path, a garden bed or a verandah added since.
Once we have found yours, a marker means nobody hunts for it again.
Sewer and stormwater are separate systems and connecting one to the other is not lawful. Trouble that only arrives in a downpour and eases as it stops is the stormwater side.
On a property with established planting that usually means gutters, downpipes or a pit packed with leaf litter rather than the sewer at all.
It is a much cheaper problem, and worth saying which one you have when you ring so the right equipment turns up.
A fixture that has been getting slightly worse each month for a year is telling you something while it is still cheap to act on. Lost fall and accumulating material are the two causes.
Nobody rings about a slow drain, which is exactly why it becomes a call about a stopped one.
It is the least dramatic symptom on this page and the most useful.
Footage showing nothing wrong is worth paying for. It is the finding that ends the spending rather than starting it.
Plenty of people feel short-changed by it and it is the best outcome available. You have bought certainty about the one part of the property nobody can see.
It also gives you a baseline, so if the same fixture misbehaves in five years the comparison answers the question immediately.
Fixed price agreed before anything starts. These are indicative 2026 ranges.
Through an existing access point where the property has one.
The recording is yours regardless of what it shows.
For what a cable alone will not shift.
Position and depth marked, so nobody works on a guess.
What was found, what caused it, and whether it will happen again.
Which fixture, how long, and how many times it has happened before. Recurrence changes the visit.
Through an access point where one exists, using the least disruptive method that will genuinely work.
So you can see whether something down there caused it, or whether it was simply what went down the pan.
Including when the honest answer is that the pipe is sound and there is nothing further worth doing.
Ring and a licensed plumber picks up. We can be moving toward you while you are still on the phone.
Call 1300 381 569Wipes, comfortably ahead of everything else, whatever the packet claims. They do not break down, they snag on anything rough inside the pipe, and they then collect whatever comes along behind them. Fat, hair and roots at an open joint account for most of the remainder.
Not by itself. What older housing does change is how much of the waste layout is original. Where a bathroom has been reworked around fixtures the original rough-in never anticipated, you sometimes end up with bends and lengths that collect material, and that shows on camera rather than in a guess.
Yes, while it is still information rather than a Sunday night. A line that is gradually slowing has usually lost fall or is accumulating something, and both cost less to deal with before the day nothing moves at all.
Rarely. Clearing goes through an access point, and where the camera shows a defect rather than a collapse it can usually be repaired from inside with a liner.
Because clearing tells you the line is open now, and nothing else. The footage tells you whether something down there will do it again in four months, and that is the difference between a call-out and a fix.
Yes, and keep it. It is the evidence behind whatever gets recommended, and it settles any argument about it later.
Clearing a blocked drain is $150 to $400. A camera inspection is $250 to $450. Jetting is $400 to $700. Locating and marking a defect is $250 to $500, with the written findings included.
Tell us which fixture, how long, and whether it has done this before. Those three answers decide what comes off the van.
Cleared, filmed, and a straight answer about whether it will happen again.
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