>> Dynarod would probably cost a lot.
It depends on the problem.
Some years back I called them out on a Sunday when the whole shebang bunged up. Bloke turned up and spent some hours but couldn't clear it. He returned the following morning, worked for a while and then called in his area manager. So that's two vans on site for several hours and the thing was finally sorted mid afternoon. The blockage turned out to be somewhat downstream of where they thought it was and it took the pressure doubler on their "liquid laser" lance to shift it, or the "we don't like doing this as it can drill holes in the pipe if we're not very careful sir" option as they put it.
They gave me a demo outside the drain and it makes a Karcher pressure washer look like a wet fart.
I was presented with a surprisingly light bill (about 120 quid IIRC, but it was a while ago), which caused me to query as to why. They explained that the first hour is full charge (Sunday rates in my case) and you always pay for that hour, no matter how long it actually takes to sort. The second hour is half that rate. Any further time spent until it's fixed is free.
When I asked how they made any money, the bloke pointed at the "hopper" drain behind the kitchen and said it was people getting 'em in to scoop the leaves out of those. A five minute job and a full hour's charge.
If I'd got a real stinker (figuratively and possibly literally too) on my hands, I'd check that policy still applies and call 'em in.
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