- Lic #292427C NSW plumbing licence — fully insured, water and gas
- Blocked This Morning, Gone Tonight Same-day service is the standard here, not the upgrade.
- $65 Off Your First Service The discount is real, and the visit itself costs zero.
- Workmanship Guaranteed Quality workmanship guaranteed on every drain, with a lifetime labour warranty behind it.
Putney's Drains: Local Knowledge That Matters
Putney is trading up. Across the peninsula, modest post-war brick and fibro homes are being renovated hard or replaced with far larger builds, and the drainage underneath rarely gets a mention in the plans.
St Chad's on Delange Road dates to 1912; most of the houses around it arrived a generation later, in the post-war build-out. The sewer and stormwater lines serving those blocks are original, and they were sized for the houses that came with them.
A bigger house works the ground harder. An extra bathroom or two sends more waste down a private line laid for one, and more roof, more driveway and more paving shed far more stormwater than the same block ever used to.
All that runoff still funnels the way it always has, down through the peninsula's stormwater toward the Parramatta River. The pipes in between date from the suburb's first build-out, and nobody has resized them since.
You can watch the mismatch play out along Douglas Street and the blocks like it: a brand-new build drains beautifully until the first serious wet week finds the old line's limit.
None of this makes the peninsula a bad place to build. It just means the drainage deserves a line item of its own, looked at as carefully as the kitchen benchtops.
Our advice for anyone building or buying here is simple. Get a CCTV inspection before plans are locked in, and if the old run is failing, repair or reline it before the new landscaping goes down, not after.
Common Drain Call-Outs in Putney
Turnover or not, the peninsula's original drainage still produces the classics. These three generate most of the calls from these streets.
- Roots in the old joints. Mature trees on the established blocks work roots into ageing clay joints, and every clear is temporary until that entry is sealed for good. The tree stays; the opening it exploited doesn't.
- Brittle earthenware near the river slopes. Unrenovated homes still run their first earthenware lines, now old enough that cracking is a question of when, not if.
- Silt collecting low on the slope. The fall from ridge to bays concentrates flow and silt in the lowest pits, so streets nearest the water see more than their share of blocked stormwater.
The Services Putney Calls Us For
Six services, one team, and the same camera-first habit across all of them.
- CCTV Drain Inspection: The pre-renovation and pre-purchase check that shows what the ground is hiding.
- Blocked Drain Repair: Cracked or root-bound pipe fixed permanently, with no-dig relining where it earns its place.
- Blocked Sewer: Backed-up sewer lines traced to the cause and cleared, however unpleasant the symptoms.
- Blocked Stormwater: Pits, downpipes and surface drains restored before the next downpour asks the question again.
- Blocked Toilets: Fast, tidy clearing when the loo stops cooperating, plus the reason it happened.
- Drain Cleaning: Preventive jetting that keeps an ageing line moving between repairs.
What the Cameras Keep Finding Here
Pull up a year of local footage and one pattern dominates: vitrified clay laid during the mid-century build-out, sitting in the shale ground above the river, all reaching the end of its working life in the same stretch of years.
They're rarely dramatic failures. A hairline crack here, a slightly dropped joint there, each one a future blockage taking its time to arrive.
That pattern shapes how we quote. When the footage shows a line that's mostly sound, we'll say so and price the one repair it needs, because a good fix on a fair pipe buys years.
Emergency
Overflowing in Putney? Emergency Response, 24 Hours
A drain emergency doesn't keep business hours, and neither do we. Same-day service means the urgent jobs jump the queue rather than joining it.
Call (02) 9134 9067 now if you're looking at:
- An outside gully lifting or overflowing after rain
- A sewage smell in the yard that wasn't there yesterday
- The shower backing up whenever the washing machine drains
- A toilet that gurgles first and rises second
- Water sitting in a floor waste that should be dry
Summer is the pinch point on the peninsula. Kissing Point and Morrison Bay parks hit their busiest weeks just as afternoon storms start rolling through, and a drain that limped through spring tends to give up right then.
Give us the symptom and the street when you ring. You'll have an arrival window before the call ends, not a promise to call back.
Why Neighbours in Putney Pick Us
Our patch wraps around this peninsula. Ryde sits just up the hill, and the run through these streets is weekly, not occasional.
Being minutes away changes more than emergency response. A camera check or a follow-up visit is easy to slot into a run that already passes your street.
Local repetition builds judgement. We've graded enough of the same clay lines to tell the difference between a joint that needs watching and a joint that needs fixing, and we'll tell you which one you have.
Every job carries quality workmanship guaranteed, with fair, upfront pricing, so nothing gets added once the work is underway. Close by, careful, and easy to reach when something goes wrong at 9pm.
How We Fix a Blocked Drain for Good
Four steps, in the same order every time.
- Camera down first. We find the blockage before we touch it, so nobody pays to fix the wrong thing.
- Clear the line. Jetting for grease and silt, the electric eel for roots; the pipe dictates the tool.
- Deal with the cause. A cracked joint gets repaired or relined, not cleared and forgotten until next time.
- Show you it's fixed. A final camera pass proves the result, and the fix is one we stand behind.
Where we work
Servicing the Suburbs Around Putney
One run covers the peninsula and the suburbs wrapped around it, which is why the response times hold up across all of them.
Let’s get it flowing again
Get in Touch Today
Tell us what the drain is doing, and you'll know what happens next before the call ends: a time, a plan and a price that gets approved before any work starts.
Call (02) 9134 9067 or send the details through and consider it in hand.
Good questions, straight answers
Common Putney FAQs
The questions peninsula callers ask most, answered the way we'd answer on the phone.
Do you offer a 24/7 emergency blocked drain service?
Yes, and open 24 hours means exactly that. A plumber picks up overnight, on weekends and on public holidays, and an overflowing drain at 2am gets dealt with at 2am, not triaged to Tuesday.
How quickly can you get to a blocked drain in Putney?
Usually the same day, often much sooner. The peninsula sits inside our daily run, so the drive is a matter of minutes rather than a cross-city crawl.
Which nearby suburbs do you cover?
The same run covers Gladesville, Meadowbank and Eastwood, plus everything between them. If you're a street past any of those, ask anyway; the run has edges, not walls.
What does clearing a blocked drain usually cost?
That depends on where the blockage sits, what caused it and how hard the pipe is to reach. What never changes is the process: diagnosis first, then a written price you sign off on before tools come out.
Can tree roots be cleared without digging up my garden?
Nearly always: the cutting gear travels down the drain itself, and a reline can follow the same route, so the lawn above rarely knows we were there. Excavation is kept for pipe that has truly collapsed.
Why does the same drain keep blocking?
Because clearing removes the blockage, not the reason for it. A cracked joint or a root entry will go on trapping debris until it's actually repaired, which is why we camera the line and quote the real fix.