Dealing with a blocked drain in EC4, help is normally under 90 minutes away. We attend jobs throughout Blackfriars, St Paul’s and Fleet Street and everything nearby, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
What we cover in EC4
EC4 covers Blackfriars, St Paul’s and Fleet Street, in the London Borough of City of London. We work for householders and businesses alike in this area, from a slow sink to a complete system.
Blackfriars and Fleet Street sit on some of the oldest sewer infrastructure in the city, close to the buried course of the Fleet. Buildings here have been altered repeatedly, and drainage records are often incomplete.
Common causes in EC4
The causes we see most often in EC4 are predictable:
- Fat and cooking oil poured down a kitchen sink, which cools and hardens inside the pipe
- Cleaning wipes, which stay intact once flushed
- Root growth working into the pipe
- Sand and silt settling where the fall is shallow
Signs worth reporting
What tends to prompt the call in EC4:
- Water sitting in a drain outside long after use
- Two or more fittings affected together, which points at the shared run
- A glugging noise from a plughole as another appliance drains
- Foul odour around a chamber that keeps coming back
How the visit works
We diagnose before we clear:
- Check the chambers along the run to find where the flow stops
- Work out which side of the boundary the fault sits
- Clear the blockage with water jetting at a pressure suited to the pipe
- Prove the flow from every connected appliance before we finish
Before we arrive
Before the engineer arrives, a couple of things make a real difference:
- Stop using water in the property, including the washing machine and dishwasher
- Move children and pets away from the affected area
- Make sure the chambers can be reached
- Jot down what is draining and what is not when you ring
Who pays for the repair
Before anyone invoices you, it is worth knowing where the fault sits. Pipework inside your boundary serving only your property is yours; shared runs and anything past the boundary generally are not. You get that in writing.
What it costs in EC4
Outside drain clearance is a fixed £144 plus VAT. Prices are fixed rather than hourly, so nothing changes once we are on site.