Wokingham has been trading on the same triangular Market Place since the Bishop of Salisbury secured its market charter in 1219, and it has been building new suburbs at a pace few Berkshire towns can match ever since 2010. Those two facts sum up its drainage. Beneath the medieval street pattern of Peach Street, Denmark Street and Broad Street lie runs that have been extended, patched and re-connected across generations; on the fringes, the borough’s four strategic development locations are delivering some 10,000 planned homes with pipework that is barely out of its wrapping. TrueFlow provides high-pressure drain jetting to both from our base in neighbouring Bracknell: available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, fully insured, with every job backed by a 6-month guarantee.
Old pipes, new pipes, and what clogs each
In the historic centre, the enemy is usually grease. Centuries-old plots mean long, shallow private runs threading between buildings before they reach the public sewer, and every kitchen along the way feeds them cooking fat that cools and hardens en route. The fifteen-year town-centre regeneration, finished in 2025, brought fresh life, and fresh kitchens, to areas like Peach Place and Elms Field, while the surrounding older streets carry waste through pipework that was never designed for modern volumes. Fat deposits in runs like these grow in quiet layers until a Sunday roast tips them over the edge.
Out on the newer estates, at Arborfield Garrison, north and south Wokingham and south of the M4, the problem is more often mineral than organic. Sand, mortar slurry and landscaping soil wash into freshly laid pipework during and after construction, settle in the invert, and sit there hardening. A drain handed over with a bed of compacted silt in it can run adequately for a year or two, then start backing up as normal household waste snags on the sediment. Root ingress joins the list as planting matures.
Jetting deals with all of it: the same machine, different nozzles, pressures matched to the pipe.
Why jetting rather than rodding
Rodding still has its place, and from £80 it is where we start when a blockage looks simple. But a rod works like a key through a keyhole: it makes an opening in the obstruction and the water does the rest. The greasy or silty deposit the obstruction grew from stays bonded to the pipe, and the drain begins re-narrowing from the moment the van leaves.
Jetting works on the deposit itself. Water at up to 4000psi, delivered through a nozzle chosen for the job, peels accumulated grease, scale and sediment away from the pipe and carries the loosened material downstream to the sewer. For heavy silt in new-build runs we use a weighted head built to drive through and fluidise sediment; for fat we use a rotating head that works the whole circumference; for roots, a cutting head. Our engineers look at what they are jetting before they jet it, so Victorian clay in a town-centre run is treated with more caution than new PVC on an estate.
When jetting pays for itself in Wokingham
Book jetting rather than another quick clear-out if the same drain has blocked more than once in a year, if water drains slowly everywhere in the house, if there is a persistent smell from gullies, or if a new-build drain has never quite run freely since you moved in. Where the cause is unclear, we can pair jetting with a CCTV survey from £220 combined, so you see the cleaned pipe and any defects in it on the same visit.
What it costs
Drain jetting starts from £150 including VAT, with rodding from £80, CCTV surveys from £120 and emergency call-outs from £120. Whatever the job, we agree the exact price with you before any work starts.
Ready to have your drains properly cleaned rather than temporarily unblocked? Call TrueFlow on 0808 175 7440, any time of day, any day of the year, and we will get a jetting unit to your Wokingham home or business.