Drain Jetting Rathmines
Drain jetting in Rathmines blasts a blocked pipe clean with water at high pressure, lifting grease, silt and roots without any chemicals. The jetter cleans the whole pipe wall rather than just a tunnel through the blockage. A fixed figure lands before any work starts.
Jetting is one of the drain services from your plumber in Rathmines; the blocked drains hub sets it beside the eel, the camera and relining.
Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C
Last updated September 2026
Why Does Water Clean Better Than a Blade?
Not every blockage needs the same tool, and jetting earns its run on the drains that blades leave half-done:
- Grease and fat build-ups that an eel punches through but leaves smeared along the wall
- Fine feeder roots threading through old clay joints, which water strips out completely
- Silt and sand washed into lines on low ground, where a blade just drags it along
- Recurring slow drains that have been cleared before and never really came clean
Mud and leaves in a storm pipe come out the same way; ponding yards have their own page under stormwater drains.
How We Jet a Drain
Four steps, in this order:
- 01
Access and inspect
An inspection opening is lifted, and when nobody knows what is down there, a CCTV camera run identifies the pipe type and the choke point.
- 02
Match the pressure to the pipe
Old glazed-clay drains get a gentler setting than PVC, so the water cleans without cracking a brittle wall.
- 03
Jet the line clean
The jetter head travels the drain, its rear-facing nozzles driving it forward while water scours the wall and washes the debris out.
- 04
Camera-check the result
A second look with the camera after the jet shows clean pipe from end to end, plus any cracks that could let the blockage come back.
How Is a Jetting Job Priced?
We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.
Jetting prices rise and fall with:
- Metres of hose needed before the nozzle reaches the choke
- Brittle clay, which has to be jetted slowly at lower pressure
- Whether an inspection opening exists or one must be found or made
- A jetting visit at night or on a weekend, charged at its own agreed rate
Low Ground and a Century of Clay
The ground does half the damage here
The drains are the other half
Garden trees add roots
When Jetting Is Not the Right Call
A collapsed pipe or a badly shattered clay section will not hold pressure, and jetting a line like that can make things worse, so relining or excavation gets quoted instead. A choke found inside Hunter Water's sewer main belongs to them to jet, and they have their own fault line.
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.
Questions People Ask About Jetting
Is jetting safe for old clay drains in Rathmines?
Yes, at the right pressure. Glazed earthenware under the older streets is brittle, so the pressure is turned down to clean without cracking it, based on what the camera showed first.
How is jetting different from an electric eel?
An eel cuts a path through the blockage with a spinning blade. Jetting scours the whole pipe wall with water, washing grease and silt away rather than pushing it further down. For lines clogged with root mats or built-up sludge, water does a more complete clean and leaves the drain flowing properly.
Do you jet drains in the rain, given how wet the ground is near the lake?
Light rain does not stop a jetting job. Heavy storms can, because low blocks near the foreshore already sit close to groundwater and a surcharging line has nowhere to drain mid-downpour. If the weather looks like delaying the visit, the booking gets moved to the next workable slot.
Will the roots come back after jetting?
They can. Jetting strips the roots and washes them away, but a cracked joint is still an open door. If the follow-up footage shows that crack, relining seals it from inside without trenching the yard.
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