Drainage in the Melbourne CBD is unlike anywhere else in the city. A single blockage in a high-rise waste stack can back up through multiple apartments at once, a grease-choked line behind a laneway kitchen can shut a venue down mid-service, and a blocked basement pit can put a car park under water before anyone notices. Drain Blast works across the CBD around the clock, on towers, strata buildings, hospitality venues and heritage laneway properties, with CCTV equipment that pinpoints a problem instead of guessing at it.
24/7 blocked drain response for CBD apartment towers, offices and hospitality venues
Grease trap and commercial kitchen drain clearing, scheduled around your trading hours
CCTV inspection and drain locating for high-rise stacks, basement pits and shared lines
A vertical stack serves every apartment above it, so one obstruction can cause wastewater to surface in lower-level bathrooms and kitchens. Locating the blockage level is the whole job, and that needs a camera.
The CBD’s laneway restaurant density means fats, oils and grease load is relentless. Lines congeal and narrow over months until a service period tips them over.
Stormwater pits and sump pumps below street level have nowhere to drain if they silt up or fail. Heavy Melbourne downpours find that weakness immediately.
Older CBD and laneway buildings still carry original or early-replacement drainage. Decades of patching, subdivision and tenancy fitouts leave joins and falls that were never designed for current loads.
Every CBD job starts the same way — find out exactly where the problem is before any equipment goes into a pipe. In a multi-storey or strata building, that matters even more, because clearing the wrong line wastes everyone’s time and the real fault returns within days.
From blocked apartment stacks and basement stormwater pits to restaurant grease traps and office amenities, Drain Blast provides professional drainage solutions across the Melbourne CBD. Call 0423 481 312 for 24-hour emergency response, or request a quote online.
Yes. We regularly work on high-rise and strata buildings throughout the Melbourne CBD. In apartment towers the blockage is often in a shared vertical waste stack rather than in the individual apartment reporting the problem, so we use CCTV equipment to confirm the location before clearing. If the fault is in common property, we can provide footage and a written report for your owners corporation or building manager.
As a general guide, drainage inside your own apartment and serving only your apartment is usually the lot owner’s responsibility, while shared stacks and common drainage lines are usually the owners corporation’s. The deciding factor is where the blockage actually sits, which is why a camera inspection is worth doing first. We can supply the footage and location detail you need to sort out responsibility with your building manager.
Yes. We understand that a kitchen cannot shut down at midday, so we schedule commercial grease trap and kitchen drain work around trading hours, including nights and early mornings. For genuine emergencies during service we attend 24/7 on 0423 481 312.
Usually because a stormwater pit has silted up, the sump pump has failed or its discharge line is blocked. Because the car park sits below street level, there is no gravity escape route — if the pump or pit cannot cope, water has nowhere to go. A CCTV inspection of the pit and discharge line will show whether the cause is debris, a mechanical failure or a damaged pipe.
