Why does it come back after I bleach it?

Bleach masks the smell. If waste is sitting in a pipe or gas is escaping through a crack, it'll be back within days.

Can you find it if nothing's blocked?

Yes — that's most of these jobs. A drain can run perfectly well and still smell.

Drain Smells

A smell is a symptom, not a problem. It might be waste sitting where it shouldn't, a dried-out trap, or a cracked pipe letting gas out under the floor — and only one of those is a cheap fix.

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Sound familiar?

A drain smell in the kitchen, bathroom or utility
A smell in the garden or near an outside gully
It's worse in warm weather
You've bleached it and it came back in a day

How we do it

1

The obvious things

Traps, gullies and anything altered recently. Often that's it.
2

Camera down

Cracks, standing water and build-up all show up on screen.
3

We tell you what it is

Before you spend anything on fixing it.

Before and after

Inspection chamber packed to the top with set yellow-brown cooking fat and grease, with a rod pushed into it. — Before

The same chamber jetted clean, with the green pipe now visible and water running through freely. — After

Drain Smells and Odours, on real jobs

Every photo on this site is one of ours.

Congealed fat and grease pulled out of a waste trap, hanging from the open pipe. — Congealed grease pulled from a waste trap

CCTV survey still of a jetting hose working along a drain heavily coated in fat and silt build-up. — Build-up like this is what a schedule stops

An inspection chamber cleaned out with the pipework now visible and clear. — Same chamber, cleared and flowing

Muddy playground balls recovered from a blocked drain, piled against the wall of a flooded school playground with a jetting hose running across it. — Balls out of a blocked school playground drain

A large mass of wet wipes pulled out of a drain on a jetting hose and laid on the grass. — Wipes pulled out on the jetting hose

CCTV camera still showing a jetting nozzle at a debris blockage inside a pipe. — Finding the blockage on camera first

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Questions we get asked

Why does it come back after I bleach it?: Bleach masks the smell. If waste is sitting in a pipe or gas is escaping through a crack, it'll be back within days.
Can you find it if nothing's blocked?: Yes — that's most of these jobs. A drain can run perfectly well and still smell.

Might be one of these instead

A CCTV drain survey monitor showing the inside of a pipe at a joint with visible scale.

CCTV Surveys

A camera down the drain so you can see the problem yourself.

A rodent guard bolted into the end of a drain pipe where it enters an inspection chamber, blocking rat access.

Rodent Prevention

Blocking the route rats use to get into your property.

CCTV still of a cured patch liner seated inside a broken clay drain pipe, forming a smooth new bore through the damaged section.

Drain Repairs

Cracked and broken pipes fixed from the inside. No digging up the drive.

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