Drain Unblocking Cost

If you can smell something funky in the kitchen, bathroom or garden coming from the drain and things are draining a little slower than they should – or even not draining at all, your best bet is a specialist drain unblocking company.

	Low	Average	High
Labour	£60	£120	£200
Call-out Fee*	£80	£100	£150
Total	£100	£150	£300

There are a few key factors that play into the cost of unblocking a drain;

• Emergency Call Outs
• Location of blocked drain
• Type of blocked drain
• Severity of the blockage

With these factors to consider, you could be looking at anything from £60 – £300 to have your drain unblocked.

Emergency Drain Unblocking Cost

Sometimes we have to get a job done straight away, whether that’s 4am in the morning or 7pm in the evening. The good news is that there are people who will be available when you need them, the bad news is they typically charge extra by way of a ‘Call Out’ fee.

The average emergency call out fee for drain unblocking is £40 – and that doesn’t cover the job. Your total cost could be around £160 for an emergency drain unblocking, and in some circumstances even up to £350.

Even the cost of emergency drain clearance is subject to the same factors that varies pricing.

Location of blocked drain

If your drain is in a tough to access point, or the actual blockage is further down the drain than you originally thought, this added time to resolve the problem is going to add up overall cost.

You may also need specialist equipment for those harder to access locations – again adding to the cost.

With all things, your geographical location is also going to have an impact with the cost in London being substantially more than it would be in say, Sheffield for example.

Type of blocked drain

Not all drains were created equal, some drains are bigger & harder to deal with, while some are smaller and very easy to access. A sink drain, and a soil pipe are very different things to tackle and come with different safety precautions.

So while it may only cost £60 on average to unclog a typical sink, the average cost to unblock a toilet can be around £80.

Severity of blockage

The severity, size or even cause of the blockage can have a large impact on the cost. If the blockage is caused by a secondary issue, you may be faced with the cost of not just unblocking the drain, the extended labour of finding the secondary issue and the resolution of the secondary issue as well.

In this type of case you can be looking towards the more expensive end of between £200 & £350 to resolve these types of bigger blockages.

If the cause of the blockage is something very severe those costs of course could go up even more.

You may also face the possibility of needing to consider drain replacement costs, drain relining costs or a drain cleaning costs.