Terraces, takeaways and flats: we clear the blockage, then tell you where it came from.
Redhill is a busy railway town, a short drive from our office in Smallfield. The centre has restaurants, takeaways, offices and flats, and the streets around it run from Victorian terraces to large post-war and modern estates. Almost all of it is on mains drainage, so blocked drains make up much of what we do here.
Victorian terraces often share a drain run behind the houses. A blockage that shows up in one home may have started at another, and a shared section is normally the water company’s to deal with rather than yours. Before anyone is asked to pay, we check where the blockage actually is.
In the town centre, fat is a common cause. With so many food outlets, grease goes down the sink hot, sets in the pipe and slowly narrows it. We clear the pipe and can empty the grease trap as part of the same visit. Our engineers are on call around the clock.
What’s included
Find it, clear it and explain it.
Opening the chambers shows where the flow stops, and so who should be dealing with it.
High-pressure jetting shifts fat, silt and scale and washes the pipe wall.
Where roots or scale are the cause, we can cut and descale the pipe.
If a drain keeps blocking, our Redhill CCTV drain surveys show the cause.
We empty grease traps and clear gullies for food businesses.
In the villages around Redhill, we also empty septic tanks and cesspits.
A takeaway that cannot use its sink loses a night’s trade. We clear the drain, and we can empty the grease trap on the same visit so the cause is dealt with.
In a terrace where several houses share a run, we find which section is blocked. Our drain unblocking page explains how we go about it.
About drain unblocking
The hills around Redhill are sandy and drain well, while the valleys are clay and drain slowly. Two homes a mile apart can have quite different drainage.
In villages such as South Nutfield, Bletchingley and Outwood, some homes are on tanks. We can clear the pipe, empty the tank and look at how the system is coping. The Redhill page has more.
Drainage services in RedhillLocal to you
We clear drains in Redhill, Merstham, Earlswood, Whitebushes and Salfords, and in the villages from Nutfield and Bletchingley to Outwood and Godstone. Call with your postcode if you are unsure. The full Redhill area list has the rest.
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Questions answered
Since October 2011 the water company has looked after shared drains and the pipe outside a property’s boundary. Pipes serving only your home, inside the boundary, are yours. We establish where the blockage is before anything else.
Fat, oil and grease are the usual cause. They go down as a liquid, then cool and coat the pipe. A build-up of that narrows the pipe until it blocks. Clearing it by jetting removes it, and for a business a regularly emptied grease trap helps.
Yes, and we can empty the grease trap and clear gullies at the same visit. Tell us your opening hours when you ring so we can plan around them.
Not for clearing a blockage. We use chambers and gullies and a jetting hose. If a camera finds a broken pipe we will go through the repair options before anything is dug.
Yes. We empty septic tanks and cesspits and service treatment plants, and we can clear the pipes leading to them.
A single slow drain is often a blockage. Every drain in the house running slowly, gurgling or smelling, or a wet patch in the garden, can mean a tank that needs emptying. Describe what you see and we will help work it out.
We can. Once the pipe is clear the camera can see its condition. See our Redhill CCTV drain surveys page.
Got a different question? Call 03333 233566 or send us a message.
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