Blocked drain in Addiscombe? We are based in neighbouring Croydon, so we clear blockages right across CR0, from Lower Addiscombe and Woodside to Ashburton, usually within the hour. Local engineers, high-pressure jetting, CCTV surveys and no-dig repairs, with a clear price before any work starts.
Addiscombe sits just east of East Croydon, and it is mostly large Victorian and Edwardian villas, a lot of them long ago split into flats. That is behind most of the blocked drains we see here: old clay pipes built for one household now taking the waste of four or five. Add the mature street trees, the busy parade of shops along Lower Addiscombe Road, and the Tramlink cutting through, and CR0 keeps us on the road. These are the blockages we clear most weeks in Addiscombe:
| Common cause | Why it happens in Addiscombe |
|---|---|
| Converted flats and HMOs | Addiscombe's big Victorian villas were split into flats years ago, so one old clay drain now carries the waste of several households and blocks far sooner than it was built to. |
| Tree roots | The mature street trees along the villa roads push fine roots into the joints of the original clay pipes, and wipes and grease then catch on them. |
| Fat, oil and grease | The cafes and takeaways along Lower Addiscombe Road send grease down the drains that sets hard in the colder pipe runs. |
| Ageing clay pipes | Most homes around Woodside and off Lower Addiscombe Road still run on Victorian clay pipework that cracks and drops at the joints as it ages. |
From a slow kitchen sink to a collapsed main sewer, this is everything we handle in Addiscombe, with upfront pricing and no call-out fee.
Sinks, toilets, gullies and blocked main drains, cleared fast. We start with a plunge or a set of rods, and if the blockage is stubborn we bring in the high-pressure jetter to cut through fat, silt and roots. Most household blockages in Addiscombe are cleared on the first visit, often within the hour. You get a fixed price before we lift a single cover, so you know the cost up front, and there is never a call-out fee. If the same drain keeps blocking, we tell you why rather than just clearing it again.
When a drain blocks more than once, clearing it is only half the job. We push a high-resolution camera through the line in Addiscombe and watch it on screen, so we can see exactly what is wrong: a crack, a root intrusion, a displaced joint or a collapse. You get the recorded footage and a plain-English report, with the fault located and its depth marked. It is the same survey that mortgage lenders, insurers and home-buyers ask for. Knowing the real cause means you fix the problem once instead of paying to rod it every few months. Handy for the converted flats around Lower Addiscombe Road, where a survey often settles which household's pipe is at fault.
Not every drain fault means digging up your garden or driveway. Where the pipe is still sound enough, we repair it from the inside: a localised patch over a single crack, or a full liner that forms a new pipe within the old one. This no-dig approach is faster, cheaper and far less disruptive than excavation, and it suits the older clay pipes under Addiscombe. Where a run has genuinely collapsed we do excavate, but we replace only the section that has failed, not the whole line. Everything is quoted before we start. We reline a lot of the Victorian clay runs under the CR0 villas rather than dig up front gardens.
Drains do not wait for office hours, and neither do we. We cover Addiscombe around the clock, every day of the year, and for a flooding drain, an overflowing manhole or sewage backing up indoors we aim to have an engineer with you within the hour. The van carries jetting, rodding and pumping kit, so most emergencies are dealt with there and then rather than left overnight. We work nights, weekends and bank holidays at fair, agreed rates. One phone call gets someone moving toward you.
Blocked shared sewers, backing-up manholes and septic tank problems need more than a set of rods. We jet and clear main sewer runs, deal with backups that affect more than one property, and empty, inspect and unblock septic tanks and cesspits. Just as important, we tell you honestly whether the fault sits on your private drain or on the public sewer that Thames Water looks after, so you do not pay for work that is not yours. Where the sewer is the water company's, we help you report it. Where it is yours, we fix it properly.
Before an extension, a house sale or a repair, you often need to know where the drains actually run, and old plans are rarely reliable. We trace and map hidden and unrecorded drains across Addiscombe using a sonde and dye testing, then mark the route and the connections clearly. That means nobody builds over a live pipe, and any repair is aimed at the right spot first time. It is also the quickest way to prove which property a shared drain belongs to. You get a simple drainage plan you can keep.
They came within the hour to unblock my outside sewage manhole. Very respectful, knowledgeable and efficient. Reasonably priced. Would definitely use again.
Corinne Karpal · Google review
Inside your boundary the drains are yours. The shared lateral drain in the road and the main sewer are Thames Water's. If it is not clear which side the blockage is on, we check it on a CCTV survey before any paid repair.
A lot of the big villas here were split into flats, so one Victorian clay drain now takes several households' worth of waste. That, plus tree roots and grease from the Lower Addiscombe Road shops, is behind most of the blockages we clear.
Yes, the whole of CR0 around here: Addiscombe, Lower Addiscombe, Woodside, Ashburton, Bingham Road and the Shirley border.
No. We give you a price for the work before we start, so there is no separate call-out charge.
We are based in Croydon, right next door, so we usually have an engineer with you in CR0 within the hour for an emergency.
A slow drain today is a flooded one next week. Get a Addiscombe engineer out fast, with a clear price upfront and no call-out fee.
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