Roto Rooter
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- Trading since 1976
Also covers Johannesburg
A camera on a flexible rod, fed down the line to answer what rodding cannot: where the blockage actually sits, whether roots have got into the joints, and whether the pipe has cracked, dropped or collapsed. Usually booked after the same drain has blocked twice, or before buying a house on older clay sewer pipes.
Also covers Johannesburg
Also covers Constantia, Plumstead, Wynberg, Fish Hoek, Kenilworth, Claremont, Hout Bay, Newlands
Their website lists 19 service areas, so calls here may be passed to a plumber based elsewhere.
Also covers Rooihuiskraal, Centurion, Wierdapark, Eldoraigne, Die Hoewes, Lyttelton, Midrand, Moreleta Park
Their website lists 15 service areas, so calls here may be passed to a plumber based elsewhere.
Also covers Stellenbosch, Paarl, Durbanville, Wellington, Somerset West
Also covers Parow
Also covers Constantia, Claremont, Newlands, Sea Point, Milnerton, Bloubergstrand, Melkbosstrand
Also covers Kloof, New Germany, Hillcrest, Durban, Westville, Queensburgh, Durban North, La Lucia
Their website lists 22 service areas, so calls here may be passed to a plumber based elsewhere.
Also covers Bryanston, Randburg, Fourways, Roodepoort
Also covers Johannesburg, Brackenhurst
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When the same drain keeps blocking, when a section of garden or driveway is about to be dug up on a guess, or when you are buying a property with an old clay sewer line. Clearing the same blockage three times costs more than finding out why it keeps happening.
Ask before booking, because it varies. Some plumbers hand over a recording or stills and a written report giving the distance to the fault; others only talk you through what they saw on the screen. You need the footage if you are claiming from insurance or arguing about who pays.
Most plumbers charge a callout fee plus labour, with the callout usually covering the first half hour. Ask whether the quote includes the callout and whether after-hours carries a premium, because it normally does.
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Sinks, outside drains and sewer lines.
Replacements, solar conversions and a COC.
Standing water, slow drains, bad smells.
Hidden leaks behind walls and under slabs.
Hobs and gas geysers, by a registered installer.
Water through the ceiling. Usually an emergency.