Is the drain outside mine or the water company's?

Usually yours up to the boundary, and shared or the water company's past it. We'll tell you which side of that line the problem is on once the covers are up.

Leaves, silt, grease, roots and debris washed in off the surface. Roots or broken pipework we'd want a camera on before anyone quotes.

External Blockages

The drainage outside has backed up or stopped taking water. High pressure water shifts what's in it and cleans the pipe walls on the way back out.

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A gully or manhole is standing full to the top
Water backs up over the drive or the path when it rains
There's a smell hanging around an outside drain
A downpipe overflows instead of getting away

How we do it

1

We lift the covers

Which chamber is full tells us where the blockage sits.
2

We jet it through

High pressure water, or a cutting head if it's set hard.
3

We run it off

Water goes through it in front of you before we leave.

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

External Drain Blockages, on real jobs

Every photo on this site is one of ours.

High pressure water jetting inside a brick inspection chamber, with spray coming off the lance. — Jetting an inspection chamber and outlet clean

A jetting lance being used to clear a blocked channel drain beside a wall. — Clearing a blocked channel drain

A DrainAway engineer down an open chamber at night in a pedestrianised precinct, working a jetting hose with barriers and tape set out around the manhole. — A town-centre chamber cleared overnight

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

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Questions we get asked

Is the drain outside mine or the water company's?: Usually yours up to the boundary, and shared or the water company's past it. We'll tell you which side of that line the problem is on once the covers are up.
What blocks them?: Leaves, silt, grease, roots and debris washed in off the surface. Roots or broken pipework we'd want a camera on before anyone quotes.

Might be one of these instead

A DrainAway engineer in branded uniform clearing a blocked toilet in a domestic bathroom.

Internal Drain Blockages

Toilets, sinks, showers and basins backing up inside the building.

A commercial forecourt flooded with dirty standing water across the block paving.

Flooding and Surface Water

Standing water on drives, gardens, forecourts and in cellars.

Blocked Drains

Sinks, toilets, showers and outside drains cleared, day or night.

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