Drain Locating in Melbourne West

Most drains at a house were laid decades ago and never drawn on a plan the owner can find. Extensions, paving, fences and garden beds go over the top, and the line disappears. When something goes wrong underground, guessing where to dig means trenches through lawn, pavers and concrete that never needed to come up. That is the slow, messy way to find a drain.

Blockage Bros locates drains with a camera and a locator working together. The CCTV camera goes down the line from a gully trap or inspection point, and its head carries a small transmitter. Above ground, the locator picks up that signal through soil, paving and concrete, so the tech can follow the run across the yard, mark where it turns, and stop directly over the fault the footage shows. The locator also reads the depth at that spot.

You see the footage on screen on the day, and the marks on the ground show exactly where it was found. The written quote refers to both. Once the cause is clear, you get three priced options before any work starts, and the depth reading shapes every one of them: a crack just under the lawn is a very different job to a break deep under a driveway.

When do you need a drain located?

• We need to dig but nobody knows where the drain runs
• The camera found a break and we need to know where it sits
• Water keeps pooling in the same patch of lawn
• Paving went in years ago and covered the inspection point
• It's been dug up before and it still blocks

How does a locator find a drain under concrete?

The camera does the finding underground and the locator does the finding on top. As the camera head travels down the pipe, it sends out a signal. The tech walks the surface with the locator, which picks up the strongest point of that signal and gives a depth reading. Concrete, pavers and soil do not block it.

Each time the footage shows something worth marking, the camera stops and the spot is marked on the ground, so you end up with the drain drawn on the property itself.

• Where the line runs across the yard
• The exact spot of the crack, break or blockage
• How deep the pipe is at that spot

What if the fault is under a driveway or slab?

Then knowing its exact position matters even more. If the camera shows the pipe is still in shape, relining can often fix it from an existing inspection point without breaking anything out. If the line has collapsed, it cannot be relined, and the locator tells us the smallest section of concrete that would need to come up to reach it.

Drain locating across Melbourne's west and beyond

Blockage Bros locates drains across Melbourne's west and north-west, Geelong and the Surf Coast, Ballarat and Kyneton, with someone on call 24/7.

Melbourne's west: Melton, Bacchus Marsh, Caroline Springs, Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook, Tarneit, Sunshine, Footscray, Williamstown, Altona.

Melbourne's north and north-west: Sunbury, Essendon, Brunswick, Craigieburn, Epping, Reservoir, Preston.

Geelong and the Surf Coast: Geelong, Lara, Torquay.

Ballarat and the Macedon Ranges: Ballarat, Kyneton.

Related drain services

• CCTV Drain Inspection: You cannot fix a drain properly without seeing inside it. Blockage Bros sends a CCTV camera through the whole run and shows you every join on screen.
• Drain Testing: A drain can look fine on camera and still lose water through a cracked join. Static and isolation testing proves whether it leaks, and which section is at fault.
• Blocked Drains: Water sitting in the shower, a sink that will not empty or a gully trap spilling over? Blockage Bros clears the drain, then shows you on camera what caused it.
• Blocked Toilets: Toilet will not flush, or the water rises to the rim and sits there? Blockage Bros finds out whether it is the pan or the main line, and clears it.
• Drain Cleaning & Hydro Jetting: Grease, fat, sludge and roots narrow a drain long before it blocks. Blockage Bros cleans the whole pipe with high-pressure water, not just the spot that stopped.
• Tree Root Removal: Roots are the classic reason an older drain keeps blocking. Blockage Bros cuts them out, jets the line clean and shows you on camera where they got in.