Emergency Plumber Geelong does plumbing work across the Geelong and Bellarine region, including blocked drains. Tell us what's happening and whether water is still running. We give you a firm price before work starts.
Reading the symptoms
One fixture slow means a blockage local to that fixture. Several fixtures slow, or gurgling when another one drains, means the blockage is further out in the main line.
Water rising in a shower or floor waste when the toilet flushes is the clearest signal there is: the sewer line itself is blocked, and everything upstream will back up. Stop using fixtures at that point.
The Geelong tree root problem
Pre-war houses in Geelong West, Newtown and East Geelong, and early post-war houses in Herne Hill, may still be on their original earthenware sewer lines with mortared joints. Established street trees can find those joints and grow into them, because that's where the water is.
An eel or a jet clears the roots and restores flow. It does not repair the joint they came through, so they can come back. We won't call a clearance a permanent fix on a root-bound clay line.
When to get a camera down it
After the second blockage in the same line. A CCTV inspection at $150 to $400 shows whether you're looking at one damaged joint, a collapsed section, or a line that simply needs periodic clearing.
That's the difference between a $900-plus repair and a maintenance interval. Spending on a repair without knowing which one you have is how people spend twice.
What not to put down it
Wet wipes, regardless of what the packet says. Cooking fat, which sets in the cold. Coffee grounds. Anything sanitary.
Caustic drain cleaners are worth a specific warning: on a root-bound or partly collapsed line they don't clear it, and they leave us working in caustic water. Tell us if you've used one.
Areas covered
Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast.
