A jetter sends water down the drain at very high pressure through a nozzle that pulls itself along the line. It cuts roots, strips fat and scale off the pipe wall, and flushes the debris back out, which leaves the pipe closer to its original diameter.
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Jet blasting, also called hydro jetting, clears and cleans drains using water at very high pressure rather than a mechanical cutting head. A hose with a specialised nozzle is fed into the line, and rearward-facing jets both propel it forward and scour the pipe wall as it goes. It is the most effective way to remove tree roots, hardened fat and scale, and unlike a drain machine it cleans the full diameter of the pipe instead of making a hole through the middle of the blockage.
Not every blockage needs a jetter, and we will tell you when a drain machine will do. Jetting earns its keep here:
Jetting is not the answer to everything. On a pipe that has already collapsed, water at pressure will not fix a structural problem, and we will say so rather than take your money for a temporary result.
Roots, fat, scale, silt and concrete all want different nozzles and different pressures. Guessing wastes time and can damage an old pipe.
The jetter runs off the truck or a portable unit, and the hose goes in at the inspection opening or gully. We check where the water and debris will discharge before we start, not after.
Rear-facing jets drive the head forward and scour the pipe wall behind it. Debris is flushed back towards the access point rather than pushed further into the system.
The cleaning happens on the way back as much as the way in. Rushing this is how you get a line that looks clear and blocks again next month.
We put a camera down to confirm the line is actually clean and to see the condition of the pipe now that it is visible. Sometimes that reveals a crack that the build-up was hiding.
If the pipe is sound, a jet every year or two may be all it ever needs. If roots are getting in through a fault, jetting is buying time and relining is the actual fix. You get told which.
Jetting sits above a straightforward drain machine clear and well below excavation. What moves the price:
For commercial kitchens and strata buildings, scheduled jetting on a set interval is almost always cheaper than emergency callouts, and it can be planned around trading hours.
Most people ring about a blocked drain and get whatever tool the plumber happens to carry. The two main options do different things and the difference matters for how long the result lasts.
A rotating steel cable with a cutting head on the end. It is fast, it is effective on a solid obstruction, and on a Sunday night with sewage rising in the gully it is often exactly the right call because the priority is getting water moving. What it does is clear a channel through the blockage. The build-up coating the inside of the pipe stays where it is.
Water through a nozzle at high pressure, with the jets angled backwards so the head crawls up the pipe and scrubs the wall as it travels. It removes fat, scale, silt and root growth back to the pipe surface, so the line comes out closer to its designed diameter. That is why a jetted line stays clear longer than a snaked one, and why we jet before relining.
A clean pipe is a pipe you can finally assess. Nine times out of ten that is good news and the line has plenty of life in it. Occasionally it shows a crack, an offset joint or a bellied section that the sludge was masking. That is not the jetter causing damage, it is the jetter revealing the reason the drain kept blocking. Either way you get to make the next decision with information instead of a guess.
Root cutting through the older suburbs, which means a lot of work in St Ives, Wahroonga, Turramurra, Killara and Pennant Hills where big established trees sit over old clay sewers. Fat and grease in kitchen lines, both residential and the cafés and restaurants we look after. Silt and sand in stormwater lines on the Northern Beaches. And preparation work ahead of relining anywhere.
Call Luke on 0423 213 079 or Zach on 0402 273 744, or send the form and you will hear back within 12 hours.
Tell us what the drain is doing and roughly how old the house is, and we will bring the right nozzles. Urgent jobs go to the phone, everything else gets an answer within 12 hours.
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