Blocked drains cleared properly, first time
From tree roots and scale to a collapsed line, we camera the drain, pinpoint the fault to the metre, and clear it properly the first time.
A blocked drain on the coast is rarely random. In dry country, tree roots chase the one reliable water source around — the inside of your pipes — working into every crack to reach it. Add fine sand washing into stormwater lines and the scale bore water leaves behind, and a drain that ran clear last summer can back up without warning. We put a camera down the line, find what is blocking it, then clear it and tell you how to keep it clear.
“We put a camera down the line before we put a shovel in the ground.”
What is actually blocking your drain
Most blockages on the coast come down to a handful of culprits. Tree and shrub roots are the big one — they find a cracked joint and fill the pipe with a fibrous mat. Then there's scale and mineral build-up from bore water, fine sand and silt washing into stormwater lines, grease and food waste hardening in kitchen runs, and the occasional foreign object. Worst case, a section of pipe has cracked, sagged or collapsed under ground movement. Each of these needs a different fix, which is exactly why we look before we work.
The camera goes in before anything else
A CCTV drain camera turns a guessing game into a diagnosis. We feed the camera down the line and watch the fault on screen — roots, a fracture, a belly holding water, a full collapse — then locate it to the metre and note the depth from the surface. That means no digging up half the yard to find a problem sitting under one paver. You get a clear picture of the drain's real condition, and we can hand over the footage so you know precisely what you're paying to fix.
Coastal blocks and bore water change the rules
Plumbing on the Turquoise Coast behaves differently to a serviced suburban lot. Free-draining sand and limestone shift with the seasons and stress older clay and earthenware pipes at the joints. Salt air corrodes fittings from the outside in. Bore water lays down scale that narrows a line over years until it chokes. And plenty of blocks out here run on septic systems and soak wells rather than mains sewer. We know these systems, we know how they fail, and we clear and diagnose them without treating every job like a city callout.
Cleared properly, not just pushed through
Clearing a drain is not the same as fixing it. We use high-pressure water jetting to cut roots, strip scale and flush sand and grease right out of the line, not just poke a hole through it. Where roots keep coming back or a pipe has failed, we camera it again to confirm the cause and give you honest options — a repair, a relined section, or a replacement — rather than booking you in to unblock the same drain every wet season. The goal is a line that stays clear, not a repeat visit.
One person, start to finish
The person who quotes your job is the person who cameras the drain, clears it and signs off the work — no subcontractors handed the keys and no crew you've never met. Kim has spent 20-plus years across residential, commercial, industrial and remote WA plumbing, including six years working the Pilbara's mines and remote communities where there's no second van to call. Every job is done to Western Australian standards with the proper paperwork lodged, so what's underground is compliant and on record.
What's involved
Good to know.
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