Clearing Blocked Sinks and Basins

There’s an endless list of at-home hacks on how to clear a blocked sink. Straightforward methods such as hot water, using a plunger, removing the U-bend beneath your sink and pouring chemical products into the drain are all very capable of clearing blockages.

However, if you don’t like the idea of getting your hands dirty, or you’ve tried to clear your blocked sink, but without success, then we’re here to help.

We have drainage engineers on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They’re happy to help unblock sinks and basins anywhere in London.

Neither of these is the ideal situation and both need attending to if you notice it happening in any sinks. For slow draining water, this usually means a small blockage in the pipe that is easily moved on, say with a plunger.

Full blockages are usually a problem further down the u-bend and require more force than a plunger can manage. Taking this on yourself can be a bit messy – our engineers can handle this for you quickly and easily.

Sometimes a blockage in a kitchen or bathroom sink is too far down the pipework, or the blockage is simply too severe to break down using regular methods.

All our drainage engineers are equipped with specialist tools and machines for clearing the toughest of blockages in sinks, basins, and drainage pipework.

Electro-mechanical ‘sani-snakes’ allow a rotating, flexible cable to be pushed far along drainage pipework. Different attachments fitted to the end of the cable helps our drainage engineers to push through blockages in sinks. With a reach of over 20 metres, they’re ideal for clearing blockages in the hardest to reach places.

Our drainage engineers are used to finding all sorts of things in a blocked drain. Care should definitely be taken before the following things are washed down a kitchen or bathroom sink: –

• Fats, oils and grease from cooking
• Plastic or paper drinking straws
• Toothpicks and wooden skewers
• Food waste
• Cotton buds and dental floss
• Pieces of plastic
• Tissues and kitchen paper

Essentially, avoid anything from going down your sink that isn’t a liquid. Invest in a drain screen too – this will catch any large chunks of food or debris and prevent it going down the plughole.