Wetherby · West Yorkshire · 24 hours

Blocked drains,
any hour of any day.

Drainage engineers out of Wetherby, covering Leeds, York and Harrogate. No call-out charge, and we charge by the hour from the moment we arrive.

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A brick manhole with the cover slid aside, showing the channel below — Plate 01Brick manhole with the cover off. Lifting lids is the first thing we do outside, because which chamber is holding water and which is running clear tells us where the blockage sits.

Who turns up

Forty years servicing drains in Yorkshire, and a rate that does not move.

The work is done by experienced drainage engineers who have seen your problem before, not by whoever was free that morning. Mark has spent 40 years in plumbing and drainage and the standard of the work is what he would rather be judged on than the price.

Skilled, experienced engineers. Forty years of drainage behind the work, and the right kit on the van for the job in front of them.
A fixed hourly rate. One rate for every job, day or night, weekend or bank holiday. We do not give fixed quotations, because drainage is too unpredictable to price honestly in advance. The rate is fixed and it runs from the moment we arrive, for the hours the work actually takes.
Same day call-outs, often within the hour. Ring us and we can usually be with you the same day. For an emergency it is frequently inside the hour, and the clock does not start until we are on your drive.

Section A–A

From your sink to the sewer.

This is the whole job, drawn once. Everything we do happens somewhere along this run. Follow it and you will know more about your drains than most people who own them.

The same run, photographed

Drawn on the left. Found on the day.

A brick manhole standing full of foul waste because the run below it is blocked — Plate 05Point 04. A manhole standing full of foul waste. The chamber filling like this places the blockage in the run below it, which is where we work from.

Silt and debris standing in the channel of a manhole — Plate 06Point 05. Silt and debris standing in the channel. A run that is not clearing as it should, and the reason a camera is worth putting down it.

Tracing a run

How we prove where your drain actually goes.

Half the arguments about drains are about whose drain it is. Tracer dye settles it. We put dye in at one end and watch which manhole it comes out of.

It needs the drain running, so it is not something we can do on a blockage. Clear it first, then trace it.

The channel of a brick manhole running clear before the dye is introduced — Plate 02Before. The manhole running clear, with nothing in it to see.

Green tracer dye running through the channel of the same manhole — Plate 03After. Dye arriving in the same manhole. That run is confirmed, and so is whose it is.

Green tracer dye visible in the channel of a separate manhole on another job — Plate 04A different manhole on a different job. Same method, dye visible in the channel below.

Straight answers

When you do not need us.

Most blockages never need relining. A liner is for a broken pipe, not a blocked one. A drain that runs properly afterwards rarely needs anything else.
A camera cannot see through a blockage. A survey on a blocked drain shows a brown screen and nothing more, so it belongs after the drain is running, and it is normally a separate visit at additional cost.
Some of it is not your drain. Where a fault sits on a shared or public run it is Yorkshire Water's to fix rather than yours to pay for, and it is worth knowing which side of that line you are on.
Some of it you can do yourself. A slow sink is usually nothing more than a trap full of fat. A bucket underneath and a hand-tight fitting undone is often the whole job.

Where we work

Out of Wetherby, across the county.

Not on the list? We cover most of West and North Yorkshire. Ring and ask.

Blocked drains,any hour of any day.