Blocked drains, sewer & stormwater, CCTV inspection and high-pressure clearing. Whether you’re calling for the first time or you’ve been a client for 20 years, the same team handles the call, the diagnosis, and the work. No tiered “senior vs junior” rates — just qualified, licensed, insured plumbers who do this every day across Northside Brisbane.
Tree roots are the number one cause we see — jacaranda, fig and gum tree roots love hairline cracks in older clay pipes. After that it’s wet wipes (even the “flushable” ones), kitchen fats, and slow-degrading shower hair. Older Northside homes built pre-1980 often still have the original earthenware sewer line, which is what we end up either jet-clearing or relining once the roots get aggressive.
Yes — on most blocked drain jobs we run a CCTV camera through the pipe before we quote, so we know exactly what we’re dealing with and you know exactly what you’re paying for. We can record the footage and email it to you, which is useful if you’re negotiating with insurance, body corp or a real estate agent.
Not usually. Modern drain repair on most jobs uses pipe relining or no-dig hydro-jet clearing — the only digging is at one access point. For full pipe replacement we’ll obviously need to expose the line, but we plan the trench so it follows existing garden beds where possible, and we always backfill, compact and turf so you’d barely know we were there.
A standard hydro-jet unblock and camera inspection is usually 1–2 hours on site. Tree-root cutting and follow-up jet clean adds another hour or two. A pipe-reline job typically takes a single day from arrival to clean-up. We’ll always give you a time window before we start and call if anything changes.
Yes — stormwater, sewer, surface drainage, sub-surface ag-drains, the lot. Brisbane storm season hits hard, and a lot of older homes have undersized or collapsed stormwater lines that suddenly get noticed when the laundry floods. We’ll diagnose and quote both stormwater and sewer issues in the same visit.
On most pipe runs, yes — you save the excavation cost, the landscaping reinstatement, and the disruption. Relining works on pipes from about 50mm up, and the relined section typically outlasts the original pipework. We’ll quote both options where it’s a close call, so you can compare and choose.
Yes — if we’re already on site with the camera and the jet, we’ll usually do a quick inspection of the connected lines so you know whether the next blockage is coming. We’ll mention it — we won’t pressure you to do extra work, but you’ll have the info to make the call.
