The kitchen gully was backing up
In late October 2025 a Kingsley household got in touch about a blocked drain. The gully outside that services the kitchen was backing up, so water from the kitchen had nowhere to go.
A gully that keeps backing up is often the first sign of a problem further along the line, not at the gully itself.
What the camera showed
We cleared the line with high-pressure water jetting, then ran a CCTV drain camera through it to check the pipework and find out what had caused the blockage.
The camera showed faulty joints on either side of a junction in the line. The junction looks to have been put in for the pool pump. Those joints had opened up enough to let sand from the surrounding ground flow into the pipe, and the sand was building up inside the line. That is what was backing up the kitchen gully.
The camera also showed that the pipework had shifted. Instead of running on a steady fall, part of the line now dips and holds water, so waste and sand settle there rather than being carried away.
Why not reline it?
Jetting cleared the sand and got the drain running again. Once the line was clear, we used the camera footage to explain what we had found.
In many cases relining is the first option we look at, because it repairs a pipe from the inside without digging. It was not the right fix here. A lining follows the shape of the existing pipe, so it would seal the faulty joints but would not remove the dip where the pipe has shifted. The line would still hold water.
So we recommended digging up and replacing the affected section, so the pipe can be laid back on the correct fall.
The result
The kitchen gully was draining normally again, and the household knows the real cause of the blockage and why a dig and replace repair is the right long-term fix for this line.
Not every blockage has the same cause, which is why we camera the line before deciding what to do. Our blocked drains Perth page sets out the options, and we cover blocked drains in Kingsley as well. Or call 0499 281 430.
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