Drain Jetting Edgeworth
Drain jetting in Edgeworth clears a blocked line with high-pressure water that scours the pipe wall clean rather than reopening the same choke next month. It strips grease, silt and soft build-up from the whole circumference of the pipe, and the price is fixed before the nozzle goes in.
Part of the drains run. The plumber in Edgeworth team uses the jetter inside the blocked drains service, and it earns its keep when a cable clear would only last until the next downpour.
Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C
Last updated September 2026
Why jetting rather than a cable clear?
An electric eel punches a hole through a choke and leaves whatever coats the pipe walls behind. Jetting washes the entire inside of the line, which is why the result holds instead of closing over again.
The jetter suits three situations in particular:
- Grease and fat that has coated a kitchen sewer run over years
- Silt and sand that has washed into a stormwater or yard line
- Soft build-up on ageing pipe walls where a scraping cable risks opening an old joint
A solid root mass is a job for the cutter, not water, so that line moves to tree root removal before the jetter comes out.
Running the jetter through the line
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Ring or send the form
Call (02) 4063 3469 or use the form to explain the fault. We ask enough to bring the right equipment the first time.
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A fixed price first
A plumber inspects the job and names a fixed figure up front. Nothing gets started until you give the go-ahead. 3. The nozzle goes in at the nearest opening and works the line under pressure, scouring the walls as it travels and flushing the debris out ahead of it. 4. Covered for a year. Every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work. If something we did isn't right, ring the same number.
Once the water has done its work, we can put the drain camera through the line to show you the pipe wall on screen. That check tells you whether the drain is now sound or whether a repair is still waiting further down.
What goes into a jetting quote?
We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.
From there, three things shape the figure:
- The length of line to scour, since a sewer run from a rear yard to the street is a longer pull than a short kitchen branch
- What is actually in the pipe, because set grease scours faster than a line packed with silt and rubble
- Access, as a tidy surface gully is a quicker set-up than a line that only opens through an inspection point under a deck
Silt, grease and the ground under these streets
Silt off the creek flats
Grease from the family kitchens
Older pipe walls
What Customers Say
We talked through the options of our blocked kitchen sink drain (not just an s bend problem) and came to the perfect long term solution at a reasonable price.
When we're not the right call
Water cannot fix a pipe that has broken or dropped out of line. A cracked run goes to pipe relining, a collapsed one to excavation, and we quote whichever the camera supports rather than sell a flush that fails.
Two other jobs sit elsewhere as well:
- A choke in the street main, which only the water authority's crews can clear
- A blocked sewer overflowing at the grate becomes an urgent job on the emergency line rather than a booking
Jetting questions from Edgeworth households
Will high-pressure water damage the old clay drains in Edgeworth?
No, as long as the pressure suits the pipe. The older drainage in the sixties and seventies sections is clay and earthenware, so we dial the jetter down for those runs and save the higher settings for modern PVC, where the pipe wall copes with a harder scour.
Does the jetter use any chemicals?
None. The jetter works with water alone, pressurised through a nozzle that pulls itself along the line. That matters if the drain runs toward a garden, a creek-side yard or a tank, since nothing caustic goes down the pipe.
Can jetting remove tree roots, or only soft blockages?
Fine roots and root hair, yes. A thick, established root mass needs the eel's cutting head instead, and that gets quoted before the line is touched rather than promising a flush the pipe will not deliver.
How long does a jetted drain stay clear?
That depends on what caused it. Grease and silt build back over years, and a jetted line with sound walls usually holds. If the camera shows a cracked pipe or an open joint, the blockage will return until the pipe itself is repaired, and we quote that fix separately.
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