Blocked Drains Georgetown

Georgetown Plumbing Co clears blocked drains across Georgetown and the neighbouring suburbs with jetters, electric eels and drain cameras, and every cleared line gets filmed so you can see it is open. Ring (02) 4063 1232 and the price is named before work begins. The full list of trades sits on the Georgetown Plumbing Co home page.

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Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C

Last updated September 2026

Available 24/7
No call-out fee (excluding after-hours)
Fixed, up-front quotes
365-day warranty on all work

What's Actually Choking the Pipes Here?

The drains under this suburb were laid generations ago, and the old housing gives them four ways to fail:

Roots in old clay joints

Mature street trees push fine roots into earthenware collars, and once inside, the mass only grows.

Brittle pipe in moving ground

Reactive clay shifts as it wets and dries, and century-old earthenware cracks at the joints under that movement.

Debris on broken edges

Waste snags where a pipe has cracked or sagged, so a line that ran fine blocks after one autumn leaf fall.

Storm surcharge

A Hunter downpour can overload an undersized line until water backs out of the low-side gully.

Georgetown Drain Services

Each fault has a method built for it. The six below cover the drainage work we do:

CCTV Drain Inspection

Eyes inside the pipe. A camera pass diagnoses a slow drain instead of guessing, so book a camera run before any digging is discussed.

Drain Jetting

Scour, do not pour. High-pressure water strips grease, sediment and root fibre off the walls without chemicals, which is what drain jetting is for.

Blocked Sewer

Waste rising is a sewer job. A choke surfacing through a floor waste, gully or pan gets its own process on the blocked sewer page.

Stormwater Drains

Rain has to go somewhere. Downpipes and yard lines that cannot move water are cleared and checked on the stormwater drains page.

Pipe Relining

A sleeve instead of a trench. A cracked line can often be sealed from inside, so see whether your pipe suits pipe relining before agreeing to a dig.

Tree Root Removal

Cut, film, plan the regrowth. Root growth is sheared back to the pipe wall and filmed afterwards; tree root removal walks through the order of work.

How a Drain Call Runs

1
Ring or send the form
Call (02) 4063 1232 or use the form to explain the fault. We ask enough to bring the right equipment the first time.
2
A fixed price first
A plumber inspects the job and names a fixed figure up front. Nothing gets started until you give the go-ahead.
3
Clear it, then film it
The jetter or eel opens the line, then the camera follows to confirm the walls and joints on screen.
4
Covered for a year
Every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work. If something we did isn't right, ring the same number.

What Sets the Cost of a Drain Job?

We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.

Four things shape the figure you hear:

Access to the line A raised cottage with a usable subfloor is a quicker job than a pipe under a concrete slab or a paved courtyard.
Pipe material Earthenware, PVC and galvanised each take different fittings and different clearing heads.
What the blockage is Grease and sediment clear in one pass; a root mass or a collapsed collar is a bigger piece of work.
Whether it can wait for daylight A drain still moving water can be booked for a weekday; one backing up at midnight is after-hours work at the dearer rate, quoted on the phone.

Why the Old Lines Fail Here

Cottages older than modern drainage

Settlement here began in the 1850s, when cottages went up for the men at the Goninans works and the copper smelter, and the weatherboard and brick homes of the pre-war decades were all drained in earthenware. That clay pipe is still in the ground under many of them, jointed every short length.

Two soils, both hard on joints

Reactive clay heaves in a wet spell and pulls back in a dry one, and alluvial ground settles, so collars shift and crack over the decades. Mature trees above those runs then send roots into every opening they find.

New roofs on old pipes

Townhouses and paired units have gone up on lots that once held one cottage, and every extra roof and paved yard sends more water toward Throsby Creek through lines never sized for it.

When We're Not the Right Call

Hunter Water owns the sewer main and everything on the street side of your property line, so a choke or break out there is theirs to repair and their faults number is the one to ring. From the boundary back to the house, the pipe is yours and the job is ours.

What Customers Say

He spoke to us about what not to use, what to avoid and even double checked the issue had resolved.

Mitchell

Drain Questions From Georgetown Households

Do you camera the drain after clearing it?

Yes. Every line we clear gets a camera pass afterwards, and you watch the joints go by on the monitor. Clean walls mean the choke has genuinely gone; a crack or a root mat means the recording marks its distance from the access point and the repair gets priced from that.

Can tree roots be cleared from an old clay sewer without digging?

Yes, while the pipe still holds its shape. The jetter's cutting nozzle shreds the roots from inside and the camera confirms the bore is open, so a shovel only comes out when the earthenware has fallen in. You see that on the footage first.

Why does the same drain block twice?

Because clearing a symptom does not fix a cause. Roots regrowing through a cracked joint, a sagging length of old pipe or a collapsed collar will choke the line again within months. The camera check after clearing exists to find that cause and price the permanent fix.

Is a blocked stormwater drain urgent?

It can wait for a daytime booking while water still moves, but not once it backs toward the house. Runoff here heads for Throsby Creek, and an overloaded pipe spills from whichever outlet sits lowest, sometimes a laundry floor waste. That version is an emergency call.

Need a plumber? Call or send the form

Call (02) 4063 1232 or send the form below. Available 24/7, you see a fixed figure ahead of any work, and every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

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