Blocked Sewer Kotara
A blocked sewer in Kotara is water coming up where it should go down. Kotara Plumbing Co clears it with a jetter or an electric eel, then checks the line with a drain camera so the same blockage doesn't come back next season. You approve the figure before anyone starts work.
The plumber in Kotara runs the whole drainage side of the business, and each part of the work has its own page:
- The blocked drains hub, the parent page for all clearing work
- Drain jetting for grease and scale coating the pipe wall
- CCTV drain inspection for footage of the line
- Pipe relining and tree root removal for the repairs a clear can't do
Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C
Last updated September 2026
Sewer or one slow fixture?
A slow kitchen sink is one fixture complaining. A blocked sewer takes several fixtures down with it, and the signs usually arrive together:
- The toilet gurgles or the pan level rises when the washing machine drains
- Water backs up in the lowest point of the house, often a shower or a floor waste
- More than one fixture drains slowly at the same time
- A sewage smell hangs around the yard or an outside gully
Any two of those together point at the sewer line, and it's worth a camera look before the mess reaches a floor.
What happens once you ring
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Ring or send the form
Call (02) 4063 1093 or use the form to explain the fault. We ask enough to bring the right equipment the first time.
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A fixed price first
A plumber inspects the job and names a fixed figure up front. Nothing gets started until you give the go-ahead.
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The clear, then the camera
The jetter or eel clears the blockage, and a camera run confirms the line is clean and records what let it happen.
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Covered for a year
Every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work. If something we did isn't right, ring the same number.
Old clay under rolling blocks
Clay joints and big gardens
Slope and walls
What if the camera finds a collapse?
Cutting roots restores flow, but it doesn't fix a pipe that has dropped or caved in. When the footage shows a stretch of clay that has failed, the clear is finished for that line and the repair decision starts.
A joint that keeps regrowing roots is a candidate for the pipe relining repair, which lines the old pipe without digging up the yard. A sound pipe carrying a heavy root mass needs tree root removal instead. The footage decides which one you're looking at, and it's yours to keep either way.
What Sets the Price
We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.
What moves the figure:
- What the camera finds, since roots cut out of a sound pipe cost far less than a collapsed stretch that needs a reline
- Where the access point sits, because a gully behind a retaining wall on a sloping lot takes longer to work from than an open side path
- The length of the run from the inspection point to the boundary
- After-hours timing, which runs at a different rate told to you before the job is locked in
When We're Not the Right Call
If the footage shows the failure sits past your boundary in Hunter Water's sewer main, that repair belongs to them, and we hand you the fault number and the camera footage to report it. A yard flooding because the stormwater line is surging back from the creek is a different job, covered on the stormwater drains page.
A sewer backing up inside the house at night belongs on the emergency plumber line.
What Customers Say
[The team] fixed my blocked sewer connection quickly and on budget. Good guys, polite, tidy and prompt.
Four Straight Answers on Blocked Sewers
Our Kotara house was built in the 1950s. Do clay sewers need different clearing?
Clay drains of that era crack at the joints as they age, so the clear is matched to the pipe rather than forced through. The jetter pressure is set for clay, and the camera run afterwards shows whether a joint needs relining or the line only needs routine root cutting. Nothing is quoted until the pipe has been seen.
Can you clear a blocked sewer after hours?
Yes. Someone answers the line at any hour, and the after-hours rate is spelled out before the visit is confirmed. A sewer coming up inside a laundry or bathroom is treated as urgent work, and the camera check happens on the same visit, not a second booking.
Is a camera run included when the sewer is cleared?
The camera goes down once the line is running, to confirm the pipe is clean and record what caused the blockage. That footage is yours to keep for insurance or a future repair decision, and it shows whether the sewer needs a reline or only root cutting at the next visit.
Sewage has come up in the shower. Is that an emergency?
Wastewater inside the house is urgent, so treat it that way. Stop running water, keep everyone away from the affected room, and ring the emergency line. The clear happens first to stop the flow, then the camera run works out which repair, if any, the line needs.
Need a plumber? Call or send the form
Call (02) 4063 1093 or send the form below. Available 24/7, you see a fixed figure ahead of any work, and every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.
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