Thornbury’s interwar and postwar homes are being extended and renovated at a rate few suburbs match, and that is where a lot of its drainage trouble starts. Rear extensions, studios and decks get built over drain lines nobody mapped first, and heavy machinery crosses pipework that has been in the ground since the 1930s. Add established street trees over old clay sewers and two creek catchments taking the suburb’s stormwater, and Thornbury produces a steady mix of residential drainage work. We cover it 24 hours a day.
24/7 blocked drain and burst pipe response for Thornbury homes and businesses
Drain locating and mapping before extensions, decks and landscaping begin
Tree root clearing, CCTV inspection and stormwater drain jetting
Extensions and landscaping across Thornbury regularly damage existing lines. Symptoms often appear months after the builders have left.
A rear extension placed across an existing sewer run makes future access extremely difficult and turns an ordinary repair into a major job.
Thornbury’s established street trees have had ninety years to find the open joints in the suburb’s original earthenware drainage.
Properties draining towards Merri and Darebin Creeks feel it first when pits and lines are silted and a heavy fall arrives.
If you are planning building work in Thornbury, the most valuable thing we do is locate and map your drains before anyone digs. If the damage has already happened, we find exactly where it is so the repair is targeted rather than exploratory.
From drains damaged by extensions and root-blocked clay sewers to blocked toilets, bathrooms and stormwater pits, Drain Blast provides professional drainage solutions across Thornbury. Call 0423 481 312 for 24-hour emergency response, or request a quote online.
Yes, and it is one of the cheapest pieces of insurance available on a renovation. Electronic drain locating and CCTV will map where your sewer and stormwater lines actually run, how deep they sit and what condition they are in. That lets your builder design around them or arrange proper relocation. Discovering a sewer line with an excavator, or building over one and finding out two years later, costs many times more.
It very often is. The common causes are a pipe cracked or crushed by machinery, a section distorted by the weight of new footings or paving, construction debris such as sand, mortar or plaster washed into the line, or a new connection made with inadequate fall. A camera inspection will show the defect and where it sits, which also matters if you need to raise it with the builder while it is still within their liability period.
It depends on what the camera shows and how the structure sits over the line. Options range from clearing and relining from existing access points — which needs no excavation at all — through to targeted repair at a specific point, or in difficult cases rerouting the line around the structure. We will set out what is realistic once we can see the fault and its exact position.
Yes. Thornbury sits within the Darebin area we cover, which also includes Northcote, Preston, Fairfield and Alphington. Call 0423 481 312.
