Your St Ives Team for Blocked Drains

A blocked drain can mean a slow kitchen sink or sewage backing up through the whole house, and the fix looks different each time. Here's the shape of the job before we even knock on the door.

Root-blocked lines, cleared properly. Tree roots finding a crack in old pipe are the most common cause we see, and clearing them needs more than a quick rod down the line.

Overflowing gullies fixed at the source. A gully that keeps surfacing after rain usually points to a blockage further along, not a one-off fluke.

Recurring blockages, actually diagnosed. If a drain keeps clogging every few months, we find the real cause instead of clearing it again and sending you the same bill next year.

Memorial Avenue is a good example of the streets we mean: mature trees planted decades ago now sit metres from clay sewer lines that were never built to handle root pressure. It's a pattern repeated right across St Ives's older blocks.

Root-blocked mains in these older clay lines tend to give out after hours, right when nobody's expecting to need a plumber. We treat these call-outs as the emergency they are, clearing the line and checking how far the root damage runs before we leave.

1. Step one, you call and we take down the blocked drain clearing details.
2. Step two, a licensed plumber assesses the blocked drain clearing in person.
3. Step three, you get a fixed blocked drain clearing quote and decide.
4. Step four, we complete the blocked drain clearing and back it for life.

Most straightforward blockages are cleared within a single visit, though root-affected clay lines with several access points can typically take a little longer to fully resolve.

Blocked drains sit right in the middle of what licensed plumbers and gas fitters do every week, and it's not a job worth guessing at.

The $0 call-out fee means getting an honest opinion costs you nothing, even when the fix turns out to be a simple one. That's part of why we've built up 300+ five-star reviews across the suburbs we cover.