Blocked Drains Sutherland

Rail brought the town into being in the 1880s, and the building surge that followed through the mid-1900s went into the ground with clay sewer joints, not the modern fittings a plumber would choose today.

Decades on, those joints crack, and once a joint opens, mature street trees along the older residential streets do the rest.

More recently, unit and townhouse development has clustered around the station precinct, sitting among the original detached housing. That mix means we're just as often called to a strata block on a shared line as we are to a stand-alone house.

The town also sits on a ridge that falls toward the Woronora River. Properties on that western side need drainage graded to move water off the slope, not pool at the bottom of it.

Around Flora Street and the Saturday farmers market car park, the older stormwater grid was never built for the volume of hard surface that now drains into it, so heavy rain finds the weak points fast.

The unit blocks that have gone up around the interchange in recent decades sit on shared drainage lines, which behave differently to a single house's pipework.

One blocked line in a strata building can affect several units at once, and finding the actual point of failure matters more than it does on a stand-alone block.

We work directly with owners and with strata managers, and a camera inspection on a shared line gives everyone the same clear picture of where the problem sits and what it will take to fix.

Mature trees on the older streets are behind most of this year's call-outs, finding their way into cracked clay joints faster than owners expect.

We're also seeing more strata call-outs than a few years back, as the newer unit blocks near the station age past their first decade and shared lines start showing their first real wear.

A camera inspection on these jobs usually settles the question quickly, showing whether it's a simple root cut or a section that needs relining.

We're on the Shire's roads most weeks, and this station precinct is part of that regular circuit from Engadine.

We've seen the clay-pipe pattern on streets like Eton Street and Flora Street often enough to know what to look for before the camera even goes in.

Sutherland Shire Council sets the drainage rules that apply, and every job we do follows them.

Charity work matters to us too. We back Ronald McDonald House Charities, Beyond Blue, Wayside Chapel and Pink Ribbon Day, in the community, for the community, not just as a line on a website.

Step 1. Call (02) 9072 0710 and describe the problem.

Step 2. We're on-site within 30 minutes, guaranteed.

Step 3. A camera inspection confirms the cause, whether that's a cracked joint or a root ball.

Step 4. Nothing starts until you say go on the price.

Step 5. We clear the line and back it with a lifetime labour warranty.