1st Porter Call provides drain clearance, CCTV drain surveys, high pressure jetting and plumbing repairs in Alresford and the surrounding Itchen Valley villages. We cover homes, holiday lets, shops and offices, dealing with blocked toilets, slow draining sinks, overflowing gullies and burst pipes.
Alresford's Georgian centre along Broad Street and West Street has some of the oldest drainage we work on. Runs are often narrow, jointed and shared between adjoining buildings, and they were never designed for modern usage, so blockages tend to recur unless the underlying restriction is dealt with properly.
We attend callouts in New Alresford, Old Alresford, Cheriton, Bighton, Bishop's Sutton, Ropley, Tichborne and Itchen Stoke, and we cover nearby Winchester and Fair Oak regularly. Common causes are fat and food waste, wipes, silt, hard water scale and tree roots finding their way into older jointed pipework.
Rodding or high pressure jetting clears most blockages on the day. There is no separate call-out fee, and we will tell you what caused it rather than just clearing it and leaving.
This part of Hampshire sits on chalk, and the water is hard. Over time scale narrows waste pipes and internal pipework, which is why a shower or basin that drains slowly here often has nothing obviously blocking it. Jetting removes the build-up and restores the full bore of the pipe.
The same hardness affects plumbing generally, so if you are getting slow drainage in several places at once it is worth having the runs checked rather than treating each one separately.
If you are buying a listed or period property in Alresford, a CCTV drain survey is one of the cheaper checks you can make and one of the more useful. It records the condition of the pipework and flags collapsed sections, root damage and unrecorded alterations before you commit.
As a Buy With Confidence member, 1st Porter Call is part of the Trading Standards approved scheme.
Yes. We cover New Alresford, Old Alresford, Cheriton, Bighton, Bishop's Sutton, Ropley, Tichborne and Itchen Stoke.
Jetting pressure is matched to the pipe. On fragile or already-damaged runs we will use a camera first and adjust the approach, or rod it instead, rather than risk making the problem worse.
We are based near Eastleigh and cover Winchester and the Itchen Valley regularly, so Alresford is well within our normal working area.
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