Granville Blocked Drain Repair, Sorted Same Day

Not every blockage is really "just" a blockage.

Here's what falls under repair once the cause turns out to be the pipe itself.

1. Patch repairs. Cutting out and rejoining a single failed length, leaving everything either side untouched.
2. Trenchless relining. A new pipe formed inside the old one, so a cracked run gets fixed with the lawn left intact.
3. Excavation and relay. For a section too far gone for relining, we open the ground, swap in new pipe, and reconnect it properly.
4. Junction repairs. Fixing the joint where two pipes meet, often the first place a root or a ground shift does damage.
5. Repeat-blockage diagnosis. Figuring out the underlying reason one spot keeps clogging, instead of clearing it blind each time.
6. Root-damage assessment. Checking how far intrusion has spread before deciding whether a section needs replacing or just clearing.

Whichever of these it ends up being, the quote reflects the actual work, not one flat call-out price.

Carlton Street sits among Granville's oldest housing, weatherboard and fibro cottages built well before 1940.

Their drains were never PVC. Earthenware pipe went into the ground instead, laid in short clay lengths with a joint every metre or so.

Decades on, those joints are the weak point. A hairline crack lets grit and root hair in.

What starts as a slow trickle turns into the same blockage returning every few months.

That's a materials problem more than a one-off clog. Clearing it without looking at the pipe itself just resets the clock.

On streets like this, we camera the line early. What the footage shows decides between a clear and a reline.

None of that means every old pipe on the street is a ticking clock. Plenty of earthenware runs are still sound.

A camera pass finds out which category a particular home actually falls into, rather than judging a pipe's condition purely by the street's vintage.

1. Fixed quote first. The price is set before anything is touched.
2. CCTV assessment. A camera pass confirms the exact cause and location.
3. Clear or repair. Cleared if the pipe's sound, relined or replaced if it isn't.
4. Test and warranty. We run water through to confirm it, leave the site clean, and put our lifetime labour warranty behind the work.

A single damaged length, patched or relined, is typically wrapped up the same day. A bigger excavation job runs to its own timeframe, flagged upfront rather than guessed at.

Either way, the sequence doesn't change. Assess first, quote second, fix third, so nothing gets started on a guess.

What happens after the van drives off is the real measure of any repair.

Every repair we complete, patch, reline or full relay, carries our lifetime labour warranty. A joint that fails again is our cost to fix, not yours.

We're also on call 24/7, which matters when a cracked pipe decides to become a full blockage at an inconvenient hour.

Either way, the plumber who quoted the job is the one who finishes it, start to sign-off, rather than handing it between different crews.