How Much Does it Cost to Unblock Drains/Manholes?

Job Costs

job	Description	labour
1	To get “qwickiedrain” from the Yellow Pages to turn up with his water jets etc.	£250
2	If you can persuade a local bloke to have a go for 10 minutes	£50

Information Sheet on Unblocking Drains and Manholes

If you have to earn your living “working”, I’m not talking here about sitting in an office somewhere having meetings and eating Hobnobs, I mean the sort of things builders, factory workers, road men, lorry drivers, miners do…working! If this is your lot in life, then, as a builder, one of the ways you earn your pay is to unblock drains!
There’s nothing to organise, housewives love you (from a distance, obviously), but best of all you can charge what you bloomin’ well like!

Would you like to do it? Go on, how much would you have to be paid to…? See my point?

Unfortunately you need to have the constitution of an ox, the olfactory capability of a bit of wood, and the stomach of a herd of goats. I fail on all counts, that’s why I spent my life as a builder, being chastised by other men’s wives, and I’ve still had to clean out many a blocked manhole.

One tip – I mostly unblock Drains due to baby wipes – these do not dissolve in water but more often than not get flushed down the WC by little Antigone or Hubert in such copious amounts that you’ve soon got a football-sized mass of Pampers acting as a great big drain bung. The first you know of this is when your loos back up, your manhole overflows and something hits the fan.

Not ideal.