Had a blockage between the pipe leading off my kitchen drain and the one going under the garden. Didn’t realise how bad it was. Used this and it is brilliant! Easy to use and saved me from calling out a professional. Would highly recommend to anyone if you have problems!

Bought this to unblock 2 rainwater downpipes that we’re constantly overflowing in heavy rain, had to remove the downpipes and then used this attachment to clear from ground level all the way back to the soakaways. Took an hour on each down pipe to clear 20 years worth of crap, but got there in the end by just Letting the jet do it’s job and worm it’s way through. Just let it feed itself to the obstruction and then pull it back a few inches and let it go again. Doing this constantly it slowly worked its way down the pipe and I eventually got 5m down on both drains where it then hit solid….I guess this was at the soakaway as both now flowing freely!
My only gripe was that the brass adaptor on the hose was not compatible with the plastic connector on my karcher K5, it was too big and I had to file it down and then lever it on with a screwdriver. Not acceptable at this price hence only 4 stars but it did clear my drains so can’t complain too much!

3x 90-degree (minimum accepted size as per docs from Karcher) elbows, 40mm 7m plastic drainpipe(kitchen), 2x men + K4 = win. It took sometime to get through the bends, needed to allow for the hose to center itself inside the pipe before pushing into the elbows. All blockages were cleared.

When you start out with this please be patient. It works but relies on the user gently pushing in and out.

The pipe is a reinforced hosepipe stiff enough to penetrate the blockage. One end has a brass bayonet fitting which fits into your Karcher jet washer gun. The other end is a brass bell end with water jets which spray backwards. This spray provides the propulsion for the pipe and bell end to rapidly move along the drain pipe.

Fit the bayonet end to your turned off Karcher jet washer gun handle. I have two pressure washers, one cheaper low power and one higher pressure machine. This hose works best with higher pressure machines.

Locate your blockage. With the water turned on into the Karcher but no power yet, insert the bell end into the drain to be sorted. Push the bell end in up to the red mark on the shaft.

Once properly in, turn on your Karcher and let your pipe shaft go. It will speedily penetrate the drain. Keep pushing in more length until you hit the blockage. Now gently pull and push your pipe in and out until fluid levels rise and gurgling starts.

Once the block has been loosened, keep pushing your bell end in and out. The water levels will suddenly rise and flow towards you. You will see the fluid and blockage disperse.

Once the blockage is dealt with, the pipe will start to pull away from you. Let it go in all the way just in case a secondary blockage is present and repeat the above process.

Be patient, it does work. It looks very similar to that used by the professional I had to originally call out.

I found that it just didn’t work with the lower powered Karcher washer. It does need some Welly.

The most difficult part of this process was fitting the bayonet to the Karcher handle. Had to really push hard to get the brass bayonet fitting to securely attach itself to the handle. Apart from that, this has been a welcome and good value purchase. The pro charged me 180. I have used this hose twice now, it is definitely saving me money.

I’m usually compelled to write reviews when I’m particularly happy or disappointed with a purchase. Thankfully, on this occasion, it’s the former. Bought a new house and after 6 months a stench was beginning to eminate from one of our outside drains. Realising that the cause was most likely a blockage of sorts, I went on the hunt for a possible solution. I loathe paying anyone to do anything in my house and will always exhaust the DIY options first (I work in IT so I’m not exactly Bob the Builder!). Found this and, having read the other reviews, decided to risk it. I need not have worried, it did a brilliant job! Cleared what I think were a couple of blockages on it’s way down. All in, it took me about half an hour to feed the full 15m down my drain. A couple of things which I think worked well for me were to pump the Karcher trigger when you hit a blockage and wriggle the pipe in and out. I had one slight problem when trying to pull it out though – the end felt like it had caught on something and no amount of pulling was going to release it. For this, I simply jetted the Karcher trigger a few times, along with gentle pulling and it seemed to come away fine. I also blasted the trigger on the way out, hopefully giving the drain a thorough clean. Certainly beats paying some muppets hundreds of pounds to come out and do the same job. One of the best items I’ve purchased this year.

I inherited a kitchen drain that blocked frequently in a house I bought, and after I’d finally had enough of sink and washing machine suds spilling out of the drain and over the patio I was ready to call someone in.

That was, until I came across this and decided to give it a go seen as it was about half the price of getting someone in.

Simply attach it to the Karcher lance, drop the other end down and let it do its thing.

Instantly I found it stirring up LOADS of black muck, but it did take a while before I felt like I was getting anywhere. I found that pulling the ‘hose’ backwards gently and letting go for it to push it’s way back through helped.

Then, all of a sudden it shot through my hands and the water it was chucking back was clear – hey presto, the blockage was gone.

It’s expensive, but worth it i think.

I used this on a long grill covered drain that runs along the front of my garage.

To give an idea of how bad this drain was, it consists of a channel which is around 15cm deep and 10cm wide covered by a metal grate. The channel up to the exit pipe had dirt up to about the 10cm mark and weeds growing in it. Looking into the pipe itself the situation seemed very much the same from what I could see.

Water would run off VERY slowly and after a heavy downpour it would take the large puddle which had built up in front of the garage (and inside the garage depending how bad it was) around 20 minutes to clear.

Everything in the garage was elevated and during some particularly bad downpours I had actually witnessed around 3cm of water build up in the garage itself. I had called some drain clearing companies and got an initial quote of around 100 with the caveat that if it wasn’t a straight forward job it could cost more.

Took a chance on this device, at the price figured it would be worth it if it worked and wouldn’t break the bank if it didn’t.

In my specific case, I was only able to feed it into the drain system from the entry side. This meant that anything I was pulling out would wash back in again if I didn’t catch it, this immediately made life a little more difficult but obviously not the fault of the product.

After clearing the 10cm or so of silt that was lying at the bottom of the channel, I pushed the device in a touch and turned on the washer. It does indeed slither it’s way up the drain, but very quickly came to a stop in the build up. I spent an hour or so letting it “run” down the drain and slowly drawing it back, each time getting a bit further, then quickly putting a piece of wood in to close off the drain and let me fish out all the crisp packets, sweet wrappers and other random junk it brought out.

Eventually I hit a hard stop, what I can only imagine was some sort of second grate or corner or something it couldn’t get round, as it was about 5m beyond the entry point I couldn’t really tell, and lo and behold the cleaning pipe was stuck! No amount of tugging or turning on and off would free it up. I stood pondering this for a while and visualising me calling the drain cleaning people who would tell me I had to dig my driveway up to remove the now stuck pipe before I finally had some inspiration. On disconnecting the cleaner from my pressure washer and twisting it round and round while pulling gently, eventually it sprang free from whatever it was caught on. There was a little bit of minor damage to the rubber around the end of the pipe but overall intact and working perfectly.

To shorten a subsequently long story, it took several hours of running the device up the drain channel, drawing back, blocking and cleaning, but eventually the entire pipe was clear and water now flows freely away from the drain, and my garage is dry!

In summary, I didn’t have the easy 5 minute experience of a lot of people here, but I suspect I was the first person ever to attempt to clean out this drain (the last lot just stuck some doors on bricks in the garage for storing stuff on) and it was absolutely packed full of junk, sand (off the mono block driveway) and general dirt. It did the job it was intended to do and I think with a regular once a year re-visit it should be a breeze in future.

I can’t imagine any blockage situations being much worse than the one I faced so I would definitely recommend giving this a go before you pay the extortionate amounts that the cleaning companies charge.

I had a slow blockage for weeks and “Hummed and Hared” about whether to buy or not. When I decided, I again “Hummed and Hared” about if it should be a 7.5 or 15m pipe. Well! it was a 15m pipe I bought, and today I used it with no regrets, it fitted my K2 machine with no troubles and did the job a treat.

Although the fault was not in my garden, it cured the problem, and for the sake of 60 for the pipe, 12 for the rods, and 3.50 for the rubber disk, I now have assurance that any further problems will be put right in just a few minutes in the future. In fact, the longest job was cleaning up afterwards.

I also tried putting the pipe round the bend outside my kitchen, and wow, the rubbish it disturbed at the T bend was enormous such as washing powder lumps etc. With a little difficulty, it also went down the pipe, but I had to help feed it in.

It I sound like a very happy man, I am, it was a job I didn’t want to do, but now it’s done, and done in a permanent manner.

It did the job. 10m of drain from the kitchen sink bunged with I daren’t think how many years of fat and general “eurgh” is now completely clear without needing to call anyone out.

It wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped and took a couple of hours over a few attempts to gradually work it through. I had envisaged just putting the end into the pipe, pulling the tripper and the whole lot would just whoosh down the drain and the job would be over in a few painless seconds. In reality it stops as soon as it encounters an obstruction and you have to pull it back and release it so that almost “hammers” it’s way through. Also on the downside the nozzle managed to snag itself underground on the end of an incoming pipe which tore off some of the plastic coating and despite being really careful I still managed to slightly kink the hose. It still works OK but I imagine that won’t last forever.

This isn’t suddenly going to turn your little domestic pressure washer into an industrial drain jetter but it may well save you having to get the professionals in.

I’ll be honest, I don’t do reviews. I struggle with the idea that anyone may find what I write remotely interesting.
But I am going to write about this product.
The reason is this…
It’s fantastic.
I’ve been struggling with a blocked soil pipe that runs in the roof space of my house – it has a slow fall and it seems that loo paper had basically turned to papier mache and blocked the toilet. We had been trying for 8 days to clear it – synchronised flushing, pumping the loo with a football, a plunger. I purchased a Silverline metal 10m drain cleaner (don’t bother) and that had failed to solve the problem. I had purchased from Screwfix a load of piping and attachments because the only way I could see to remove the blockage was to break into the pipe, remove the blockage manually and fit replacement piping.
I determined to do this last Saturday and in an idle moment on Friday I looked at Amazon and found this attachment. I ordered it. It arrived via Amazon Prime (It’s great) on Saturday morning.
I put this to work on my soil pipe by gaining entry through a sink waste outlet – switched it on and it made its way up the pipe – 10 minutes later I was putting it all back in its box – job done!
So what I had been struggling with for a week and a half was solved in minutes and it was not anywhere near as a difficult job as I thought it was going to be. Fantastic.
This is one product I would recommend that you have if you have problems with your drains – I squirted it through all mine Saturday afternoon and I’m now confident that’ll they’ll be fine for a long time (and if they’re not I can fix it).
There you go…. I never thought I would get excited about a product for cleaning drains.