Drain Jetting Glendale
Drain jetting in Glendale clears blocked sewer and stormwater lines with high-pressure water, shifting grease, silt and root masses a cable leaves behind. Your plumber in Glendale fixes the price first, jets the line, then runs a camera to prove the bore is clean. Ring (02) 4063 3469 to book.
Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C
Last updated September 2026
Why do drains on these streets keep blocking?
Most blockages trace back to the pipe material and whatever washes into it. The mid-century houses here were typically drained in vitrified clay, and joints in that pipe open up with age.
- Roots threading through those split joints, maturing into a tangled mass that traps paper and waste
- Grease and fat setting hard on the pipe wall, narrowing the bore until water can barely pass
- Silt and leaves packed into stormwater lines after the catchment floods
- Collapsed sections where old earthenware has finally given way under the ground
A slow drain that returns each season usually has one of those behind it, and jetting handles the first three. A collapse needs pipe relining or excavation instead.
How We Jet a Drain
The jetter pushes a hose fitted with a nozzle down the line, and water at high pressure does the cutting. The nozzle pulls itself forward on its own water stream and scrubs the wall clean as it travels.
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Find the blockage first
The fault's location and its make-up decide the pressure and the nozzle, so a camera run or an access point check comes before the hose goes in.
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Jet from the downstream end
Working back toward the access point pushes debris out of the line instead of driving it further in.
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Flush and check
The line gets a final flushing pass, then the camera travels the run to show bare pipe and any crack the blockage was covering.
Where roots are the main problem, cutting out tree roots and sealing their entry point is the longer fix.
What Drives the Price of Jetting?
We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.
The figure is built from what we can see at the access point:
- How far from the access point the blockage sits
- Whether it is set grease, packed silt or a root ball, since each needs its own nozzle
- How many access points the property has, because a line with one opening needs more set-up
- Cracked pipe spotted on the camera, which needs a gentler second pass
Night and weekend jetting is charged at a separate rate, confirmed before the job starts.
The ground and the grease here
Under the older streets, reactive clay sits above shale
Lake Road runs on grease
The floodplain adds silt
What Customers Say
We talked through the options of our blocked kitchen sink drain (not just an s bend problem) and came to the perfect long term solution at a reasonable price.
When Jetting Is Not the Fix
When we're not the right call: a collapsed section on the footage is past what water pressure can fix, so the quote turns to relining or digging. Yard water that comes from the creek rising, not from a choked line, will not respond to jetting either, and the stormwater drains page covers where that line sits.
Jetting Questions From These Streets
Will high-pressure jetting damage the old clay drains in Glendale?
No. Pressure is set to suit the pipe, and a run on mid-century clay starts gentler than a modern PVC line. When the footage reveals a cracked or collapsed section, we ease off there or stop and talk about pipe relining instead of forcing water through a broken joint.
How is jetting different from an electric eel?
An eel punches a path through a blockage with a cutting head on a cable. Jetting scrubs the whole pipe wall with water, flushing grease, silt and fine roots out of the line rather than leaving them stuck to the sides. We carry both, and the camera footage decides which one the job needs.
Do you jet stormwater lines that fill with silt after creek flooding?
Yes. After an east-coast low, stormwater lines across the Cockle Creek floodplain come away loaded with silt and leaves. The jetter washes that load out of the pits and pipes so the next downpour has somewhere to go.
How long does a jetted drain stay clear?
It depends on the cause. Grease builds back slowly, silt returns with the next flood, and roots regrow through any split joint. Footage taken once the line runs again shows which cause is at work, and settles whether relining beats another clear.
For the full picture of how drains are cleared, checked and repaired here, start at the blocked drains hub.
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