Blocked Drains in Rhodes

Cause found, not just flow restored $89 off blocked drains Camera footage you actually see One price approved before we start Licence No. 232989C, insured

If the same drain has blocked twice in a year, the clearing worked and the diagnosis did not. Something is still in that line, or the way it is used has not changed, and until one of those is dealt with you will ring again.

The aim is a line that stays clear. Rhodes is 7.9km from base, so we get there same day, seven days, with 24/7 when a unit is backing up.

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Common blocked drain problems in Rhodes

Almost everything on this peninsula drains through modern PVC and HDPE inside strata buildings, which is good news and bad news. The pipe itself is rarely the problem. What blocks it is what goes into it.

Grease is the main one. Cooking fat goes down warm and sets cold, narrowing the bore a little more each month until an ordinary night's washing up will not go away. Wipes are the other. They hold together in water and start a mat that collects everything behind it.

The complication is that a stack is shared. Your kitchen waste joins a line serving the apartments above and below, so a habit two floors up can surface in your sink. That is also why the same fixture keeps blocking while nothing inside your unit has changed.

East of the railway is different country. Those older houses run earthenware with mature street trees over the top, and there the repeat blockages are roots rather than grease.

New basin waste and trap under a vanity, blocked drains Rhodes

How we fix it

Camera first, so the cause is on record. Grease, wipes, a foreign object, or in the older houses a cracked line with roots in it. You see the footage either way.

What happens next depends on that footage. Jetting is the only thing that genuinely removes a grease coating, because it scours the pipe wall back rather than punching a hole through the middle of it. A cutting head suits roots. Rodding alone is what buys you another call in three months.

Then a second camera pass to confirm the line is clean, and a straight answer about what stops it recurring. Sometimes that is jetting the shared stack rather than your branch, which is a strata conversation. Sometimes it is a pipe repair. If your line is sound and the habit is the problem, we say so. More under blocked drains and drainage.

What it costs

One fixed price, agreed before we start, with $89 off blocked drains, $65 off a first service booked online, 10% for seniors, and no callout charge once work begins.

About the suburb

Rhodes is built on remediated industrial land and the western side went vertical after 2000. Four to eight storey buildings dominate, with taller towers on Blaxland Road, and about 95 per cent of dwellings are flats. Drainage here is a building system rather than a backyard one.

The suburb sits in the City of Canada Bay, holds around 11,450 people with a median age of 32, and wraps around Rhodes Waterside, the T9 station, McIlwaine Park and Brays Bay Reserve.

A drain repair through an opened slab, blocked drains Rhodes

Other plumbing services in Rhodes

Plumber Rhodes for fixtures and general repairs
Hot water work in Rhodes, units and building plant
Wet ceiling, drains flowing? We trace it back to a supply pipe instead
Emergency plumber when waste comes back up

Blocked drains in nearby suburbs

Wentworth Point is served from this page. The jetter also runs to blocked drains in Ryde, Sydney Olympic Park, West Ryde, Ermington and Homebush. See where else we work.

Clearing a blocked drain with the jetter from the van, blocked drains Rhodes

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About Mustafa

Original Plumbing is Mustafa's, licence No. 232989C included. Sydney born and bred, owner operator, and the same person on every visit.

Repeat work is easy money for a plumber who never explains the cause. He would rather you did not need him again for years, which is the whole reason the camera goes in. Fully insured, and the work is guaranteed.

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Common questions

My kitchen sink backs up every few months. Why does it keep happening?

Because the clearing is treating the symptom. In a unit the usual cause is grease that has cooled and coated the inside of the waste line, often building up over years and often contributed to by more than one apartment. Rodding a path through it restores flow for a while, but the coating is still there. Jetting the pipe back to the wall is what actually resets it.

Is relining ever the answer in an apartment building?

Rarely inside a lot, because the pipework is modern PVC or HDPE and it is not the pipe that has failed. Relining earns its place where a pipe is cracked, and that is far more likely in the older houses on the eastern side of the railway than in a tower built after 2000.

Half the building has the same problem. What does that tell you?

That the issue is in the shared stack rather than in any one apartment, which makes it the owners corporation's to deal with. It is worth establishing that early, because otherwise several owners each pay separately to have the same blockage pushed around.

Do flushable wipes actually cause this?

They do not break down the way paper does, so they stay intact in the line and catch on anything rough. In a vertical stack serving dozens of apartments, that is a lot of chances to snag. Once a mat starts forming it collects everything that comes after it.

Fix the cause, not the symptom

Ring Mustafa on 0406 655 707 or email info@originalplumbing.com.au with your building and the fixture playing up.

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