Electric Eel
Plumber Sydney: Eel Drain Cleaning
or Jet Blasting?
Searching for an electric eel? We use a drain machine on small pipes and a high pressure jet blaster on main drains, where an eel only bores a hole.
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What The Jet Clears That An Eel Leaves Behind
On a main drain, an eel's cable spins a cutter through the middle of a blockage. The jet breaks it up and scours the pipe wall.
Blocked Toilet Drains
A toilet blocked in its own outlet is often cleared from the pan with a drain machine. When the blockage is in the pipe beyond it, the jet clears that pipe right through. See blocked toilets.
Tree Roots In The Drain
An eel's cutter can tear a path through tree roots but leaves them in the pipe to regrow. The jet's root cutting head clears them and flushes them away.
Wipes And Sanitary Items
Wipes wrap themselves around a spinning cable. The jet breaks them up and pushes them down to the sewer.
Outside And Yard Drains
Silt, leaves and dirt packed into outside drains and yard pits flush out under the jet's pressure, where an eel only gets through them.
Electric Eel Or Jet Blaster: Which Does Your Drain Need?
Three situations we hear about from people searching for an eel.
Thinking Of Hiring An Eel
Hire eels are heavy, and the cable can kink, jam or snap inside the pipe; a cable stuck in a drain is a much bigger job to get out. If the drain is overflowing, call instead.
The Eel Only Lasted Weeks
The drain was eeled and blocked again. The cable made a hole and the rest of the blockage stayed in the pipe, catching the next lot of waste. The jet clears it wall to wall.
Roots Or Grease Suspected
The drain runs past a tree or takes the kitchen sink, so the blockage is likely roots or fat. Both need the pipe scoured, not pierced, and a camera check after.
How We Clear A Blocked Main Drain
The jet, then the camera, with the price agreed first.
Price agreed firstTell Us What Was Tried
Tell us what has been tried already, an eel, a plunger or chemicals. We find the nearest access point and give you one fixed price.
High pressureJet The Full Pipe
The jet blaster sends a high pressure hose with a cutting head through, clearing the blockage and scouring the pipe wall along the whole length of the drain.
Camera checkShow You On Camera
The camera goes through the cleared drain so you can see it is open, and whether roots or damage mean it will block again.
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Tell us what is blocked and what has been tried. A licensed plumber will call you back with a time and a fixed price.
- Fixed Price QuotesWe look at the drain and give you one price for jetting it clear. It does not change if the blockage turns out to be roots, fat or both.
- No Call-Out Fee*A licensed plumber coming out to look at a blocked drain costs nothing during business hours. You only pay once you have accepted the fixed price.
- Pay Later At 0%If the camera shows the drain needs repair after it is cleared, spread the fixed price over a 0% interest payment plan instead of paying it all at once.
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Electric Eel Plumber FAQs
Answer:
The price depends on the blockage and where it is, not the machine. We quote one fixed price for clearing the drain before starting, and use a drain machine on a small pipe or the jet blaster on a main drain, which removes the blockage rather than making a hole through it.
Answer:
You can hire one, and on a simple blockage near an opening it may get through. Eels are heavy, the cable can kink or jam inside the pipe, and a cable stuck in a drain is a much bigger job to recover. If the drain blocks again soon after, the eel has only made a hole.
Answer:
It depends on the pipe. On a small pipe inside the house, a drain machine often does the job. On a main drain or sewer, the jet blaster: an eel's cable bores a hole through the blockage, while the jet's high pressure water breaks it up and scours the pipe wall, so fat, roots and silt are flushed away instead of being left to catch the next blockage.
Answer:
An electric eel is a motorised machine that feeds a long steel cable with a cutter on the end into a drain and spins it to bore through a blockage. It is also called a drain snake or a drain machine.
Answer:
Mostly. A drain snake or auger is usually the hand-cranked or smaller version, and an electric eel is the motorised machine used on bigger drains. Both work by pushing a cable through the blockage.
Answer:
Because an eel clears a path through the middle of a blockage and leaves the rest stuck to the pipe, where it catches the next lot of waste. Roots and cracked pipes also cause repeat blockages that an eel cannot fix. A jet clean and a camera check deal with both.
Answer:
An eel's cutter can cut a path through roots, but the roots stay in the pipe and regrow, often within months. A jet with a root cutting head clears them from the pipe, and repairing the joints they came in through keeps them out.
Recent Blocked Drain Jobs Across Sydney
Suburbs where our plumbers have recently jet blasted blocked drains clear.
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