Will I have to take the tree down?

Almost never. It's the crack in the pipe that lets them in, so sealing the pipe solves it and the tree stays.

How do I know they've gone?

The camera goes back down afterwards and you see the clean pipe for yourself.

Tree Roots in Drains

Roots go looking for water and an old clay drain with a crack in it is the wettest thing in your garden. Cutting them out isn't enough on its own — the crack has to be sealed too.

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Tree roots growing through an inspection chamber, with a camera and hose alongside.

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Sound familiar?

It blocks every year or so, always in the same place
There are mature trees or a big hedge near the drain run
The house is older and still on clay pipework
Rodding clears it for a fortnight and then it's back

How we do it

1

We cut them out

A spinning head takes them back to the pipe wall.
2

We find the way in

Roots don't come through solid pipe. The camera finds the crack.
3

We seal it

A lining closes the way in, so they've nothing to grow towards.

Tree Roots, on real jobs

Every photo on this site is one of ours.

A compacted ball of fine roots removed from a drain, laid on paving. — Enough to stop the flow completely

A gloved hand holding a dense mass of fine tree roots removed from inside a drain pipe. — A full root mass out of one pipe run

Large woody root sections cut out of a drain and laid on paving beside the open chamber. — Cut out of a drain in sections

Close-up of a cracked and broken clay drain pipe with a displaced joint. — Cracked clay pipe with a displaced joint

CCTV camera still looking along a clay drain pipe towards a manhole. — Surveying a clay pipe run to the manhole

A RIDGID FlexShaft drain machine set up on a lawn beside an open brick inspection chamber. — Flex shaft set up on a garden chamber

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Questions we get asked

Will I have to take the tree down?: Almost never. It's the crack in the pipe that lets them in, so sealing the pipe solves it and the tree stays.
How do I know they've gone?: The camera goes back down afterwards and you see the clean pipe for yourself.