High-Pressure Drain Jetting In Leicester

Jetting is the right tool when a drain keeps blocking, runs slowly after it has been rodded, or has a build-up of fat from a kitchen or takeaway. We usually follow a jet with a camera check, so you can see the pipe is clean and whether a defect — a displaced joint or a root entry point — is causing the build-up.

In Leicester the public sewers belong to Severn Trent Water. If the problem is in a shared or lateral pipe it's normally theirs to clear — call Severn Trent on 0800 783 4444. Anything inside your boundary serving only your property is yours, and that's where we come in.

Leicester has a lot of commercial kitchens. The Food Standards Agency's food hygiene data for Leicester City, extracted in October 2026, lists 768 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 599 takeaways and sandwich shops, and 155 pubs, bars and nightclubs. Belgrave Road, the Golden Mile, is known for its Indian restaurants, and Bobby's has served vegetarian food there since 1976. That's a lot of kitchens washing greasy pans into drains that join the public sewer.

The law is strict about it. Section 111 of the Water Industry Act 1991 makes it an offence to let anything into a public sewer, or into a drain connected to one, that is likely to interfere with the free flow of its contents. On conviction on indictment, the penalty can be up to two years in prison, a fine or both. Fat that sets inside a kitchen drain is the usual culprit. Rodding pushes a hole through it, but high-pressure jetting scours the pipe back to its full bore.

Homes need jetting too, especially Leicester's 41,770 flats and maisonettes on the VOA list, where several kitchens often share one stack and drain. We jet fat, scale, silt and fine roots from domestic and commercial drains, then check the pipe on camera. Jetting is priced once we know the number of runs and the access.