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High-pressure water cuts fat, silt, scale and roots off the pipe wall and flushes them away — restoring the full bore of the drain rather than punching a channel through the middle of the blockage. That difference is why a jetted drain stays clear and a rodded one often doesn’t.
Domestic, commercial and scheduled maintenance work across Bristol and Bath.
Domestic jetting
Commercial
Call-out fee
Typical job
Before we leave
Fixed price agreed on arrival, before the machine is switched on.
Not just a channel through the middle
Nothing hired in, nothing subcontracted
Pressure matched to the pipe
For kitchens, HMOs and managing agents
THE DIFFERENCE
Rodding makes a hole through a blockage. Jetting removes the blockage from the pipe wall.
That sounds like a small distinction and it isn’t. When a drain is rodded clear, the fat, silt or scale that caused the problem is still lining the pipe — the bore is narrower than it should be, and everything that passes catches on what’s left. It blocks again, usually within months.
Jetting sends water back down the pipe at high pressure through a nozzle that fires rearwards. It scours the wall clean and flushes the debris back to the chamber, where it’s removed rather than pushed further along someone else’s problem.
Where roots are involved, a cutting head clears them back to the pipe wall. That’s a temporary fix on its own — the joint they came through is still open — but it buys time and it’s the necessary first step before any lining repair, because resin won’t bond to a dirty pipe.
THE RIGHT TOOL
Six situations where jetting does something rodding can’t. We’ll tell you when it isn’t needed, too.
The commonest use. Fat coats the pipe wall in layers and rodding barely touches it. Hot high-pressure water cuts it off and flushes it out. Essential in kitchens, unavoidable in catering.
Gullies fill with grit, leaves and road silt, particularly after autumn or heavy rain. Jetting clears the gully and the run beyond it in one go.
Older cast-iron stacks and runs scale up from the inside until the bore is half what it was. Descaling with a rotating head takes it back to the metal.
A cutting head clears roots back to the pipe wall. It restores flow immediately, but the joint they entered through is still open — so this is a holding measure, not a repair.
A camera can't see through silt and a liner won't bond to a dirty pipe. Jetting is the preparation stage for both, which is why it's built into our survey and repair work.
Scheduled jetting on a grease line or a shared run in an HMO costs a fraction of an emergency call-out, and it happens when you choose rather than at 7pm on a Friday.
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ACCTV still showing
the bore narrowed by
fat or silt. Same run as IMG-J3.
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Before we left — cleared and flow tested
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The identical run after jetting, clean
back to the pipe wall. This pair proves
the whole argument on this page.
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On arrival — chamber standing full
ON THE DAY
Four stages. The last one is the one most firms skip.
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CCTV still showing tree roots through a pipe joint. Common in Redland, Cotham and Clifton where jointed clay meets mature street trees.
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CCTV still showing tree roots through a pipe joint. Common in Redland, Cotham and Clifton where jointed clay meets mature street trees.
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CCTV still showing tree roots through a pipe joint. Common in Redland, Cotham and Clifton where jointed clay meets mature street trees.
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Hose reel running from the van to an open
chamber, engineer working the line.
Shows scale and real equipment — the
visual difference between a jetter and a
man with rods.
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Our own jetting unit — nothing hired in
VERIFIED FEEDBACK
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NO SURPRISES
Domestic drain jetting in Bristol starts from £[XX], with commercial work from £[YY].
The price is fixed on arrival before the machine is switched on. Length of run, how many runs need doing, access to the chambers and what’s actually in the pipe are what move it.
See our full pricing guide
FROM
We won’t quote a firm figure over the phone for a job we haven’t seen — but we’ll tell you what’s likely and what would push it higher.
It depends on what the pipe serves, not where the problem shows up.
Commercial kitchens produce fat continuously, and no amount of care at the sink prevents it building on the pipe wall. Bristol’s Gloucester Road, Whiteladies Road, Park Street and the Harbourside all run on kitchen drainage that was never designed for the volume now going through it.
The same applies to converted properties and HMOs, where one original drain now serves four or five kitchens and bathrooms. Shared runs block more often and affect more people when they do.
Scheduled jetting is the answer to both. A quarterly or six-monthly visit on a known grease line costs a fraction of an emergency attendance, and it happens at 8am on a Tuesday rather than mid-service on a Saturday.
e blockage is within your boundary, it’s usually yours. If several homes feed into the same run, or your neighbours have problems at the same time, it’s likely a shared lateral drain — and in this area that’s normally Wessex Water’s responsibility rather than yours.
Commercial drainage and planned maintance
Premises
Typical jetting interval
Busy restaurant or takeway
You — the property owner
Cafe or pub kitchen
You — the property owner
HMO or converted flats
Wessex water (lateral drain)
office or retail unit
Wessex water
Domestic property
Bristol city council
Indicative intervals. What you actually need depends on volume, pipe run and history — we’d set it after the first visit, not before.
BEING STRAIGHT WITH YOU
Jetting is the right tool for build-up. It is not a repair, and anyone selling it as one is taking your money twice.
If the pipe has lost its shape, no amount of pressure restores it. That’s a repair job.
The lip catching debris is structural. Jetting clears what’s caught on it; the lip is still there tomorrow.
Water sits because the gradient is wrong. Clean it today, silt settles again next month. The profile has to be corrected.
If a drain has blocked repeatedly, we put a camera down before jetting it again. A survey costs less than three more clearances.
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The jetting unit, rods and camera reel —
either loaded in the van or set up on a job.
Shows you turn up properly equipped
rather than with a plunger.
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COVERAGE
We jet across Bristol, Bath and the surrounding towns — domestic runs, commercial kitchens and shared drains in converted properties.
Redland & Cotham
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
A standard domestic clearance works to a fixed price agreed on site, typically from £[XX]. There’s no call-out fee and no extra charge for evenings, weekends or bank holidays.
We won’t quote a firm figure over the phone for a job we haven’t seen — but we’ll tell you what’s likely and what would push it higher.
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RELATED
If it is blocked right now, clearance comes first. Jetting follows where the blockage is build-up rather than a one-off obstruction
If a drain keep blocking despite jetting. Something structural is holding it. A camera finds out what, and you keep the footage.
Where jetting can't fix it --- collapses displace joint, poor fall --- repair from inside the pipe, usually without digging
We’ll tell you whether it needs jetting, clearing or looking at properly — and we’ll say when it doesn’t need us at all.
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