Updated October 2026
Hurstville is the busiest centre in St George, with apartment towers rising around the station, Westfield Hurstville anchoring the shopping strip and a long run of restaurants and food outlets along Forest Road. Behind the high-rise core, quieter streets of older brick houses still fill most of the suburb. Both kinds of property block in their own ways. St George Blocked Drains is a local referral service. We put you in touch with licensed local drain plumbers we work with who service Hurstville.
Why Hurstville drains block
The newer unit blocks around the town centre share drainage between many households. A single stack or shared sewer line can take waste from dozens of kitchens and bathrooms, so grease, food scraps and wet wipes build up out of sight until one ground floor unit gets the overflow. In strata buildings, the first question is often whether the blockage sits in a single unit's branch or in common property, and a camera answers that quickly.
The commercial strip adds its own load. Restaurants and takeaway shops push a lot of fat and oil into the drainage system, and where grease arrestors are undersized or overdue for a pump out, nearby lines suffer.
Away from the centre, Hurstville's older houses often still run clay sewer pipes. Mature trees on nature strips and in backyards find the joints in those pipes, and roots slowly choke the line until toilets gurgle and the outside gully overflows.
What clearing a blocked drain involves
The licensed drain plumbers we work with usually start with a CCTV drain camera to find the blockage and check the pipe. For grease-coated unit lines and root-filled clay pipes alike, jet blasting is the method that cleans the pipe wall rather than just punching a hole through the blockage. Where a shared line backs up into several units, it is treated as a blocked sewer job and traced to its source.
A standard clear typically costs $150 to $400. A camera inspection runs $249 to $600, or $350 to $900 combined with jetting. If roots have broken an old pipe, relining typically costs $3,000 to $8,000 or more. You get a price before any work starts.
Frequently asked questions
Our apartment building has a blocked drain. Who pays?
It depends where the blockage is. A fault in a pipe that only serves your unit is usually the owner's cost, while common property lines are usually the owners corporation's responsibility. Your strata manager and the camera footage settle it.
Why does the kitchen sink in our unit keep blocking?
Shared kitchen lines in unit blocks collect grease from every unit above. Jetting the line clears the build-up properly, and a camera shows whether the pipe has a sag that keeps catching it.
My older Hurstville house has a tree near the sewer line. Is that a problem?
It can be. Roots look for leaking joints in clay pipe. A camera inspection shows whether roots are already inside, which is far cheaper to find out early.
Drain backing up in Hurstville? Get a fast quote and we will connect you with a licensed local drain plumber.