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Dyno-Rod Greater Manchester & Crewe

Dyno-Rod Greater Manchester & Crewe

1.9(15 reviews)See reviews ↓·Manchester

About the company

Dyno-Rod was founded in 1963 by Jim Zockoll, a former airline pilot. Dyno-Rod Greater Manchester & Crewe provides a full blocked drains and drainage service from domestic homes to major infrastructure projects. The company offers diagnostics such as cameras and CCTV footage to pinpoint problems in drainage systems. All staff members are fully trained and receive ongoing training to comply with various accreditations.

Dyno-Rod was one of the founding members of the British Franchise Association in 1977. Dyno-Rod holds an endorsement from Which? Trusted Traders. Dyno-Rod partners with the Canal & River Trust to help care for the UK's canals and rivers. Dyno-Rod employs over 1200 engineers and support staff through its franchise network. Dyno-Rod is made up of over 45 franchisee businesses. Dyno-Rod has been operating for over 60 years.

What customers say

Based on genuine customer reviews

Emergency drain clearance and plumbing assistance provided across Manchester by Dyno-Rod Greater Manchester and Crewe draws strongly negative feedback, with reliability emerging as the dominant theme. Reviews regularly describe booking urgent call-outs, occasionally at elevated rates, only for engineers to fail to appear on the promised day or to cancel after a lengthy wait, leaving households that had arranged time away from work without the expected visit.

Communication breakdowns recur, with appointments rearranged or quietly dropped and scant explanation offered afterwards. Accounts of workmanship also feature, including a ceiling opened during drainage work and debris left scattered, with requests to make good the damage going unanswered. Cost is another sticking point, as a customer reports a substantial charge for an attendance that concluded without locating the source of a blocked sewage pipe.

Favourable notes are rarer but present: one householder whose keys fell into a domestic drain commends the swift arrival, the courteous person answering the initial call, the recovery of the keys from the trap and the absence of any charge, while another names Lee Mortimer and his colleagues for persevering with a drainage fault that two earlier firms had abandoned. Missed visits, poor communication and unresolved defects form the core of the dissatisfaction.

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Reviews

Reviews are taken from publicly available sources.

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Thomas Grindley19 July 2026

Assigned to my plumbing job through 3rd party service through my work. Initially told me 7pm, then 6-10pm slot. At repeated phone calls were unable to give me an ETA. At 1am still told me they were coming out so I slept by my full volume phone in the living room waiting for them. Did they come? Obviously not. When chased again in the morning said call the local branch at 9am which was seemingly someone else in the same buidling who told me no one works on the weekend so don't know why you're calling. Genuinely the worst customer service I've ever received.

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Dale Mcloughlin10 May 2024

Called and booked and they said would be with me that day on an emergency call out for double the price. Waited 45 mins to then be called by the engineer and be told they can not attend that day. Left waiting 45 mins further delayed because they couldn’t commit to the appointment they booked.

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Ricki Hastings8 January 2024

I would honestly not recommend these at all. We had a blocked internal soil pipe and called these out as a last straw emergency after not being able to get a plumber. We thought we were calling the pros here but what we got was someone come out, snake next doors inspection chamber and tell us he couldn't do anything else without coming out again with a plumber. Despite telling us he could get to our soil stack from our neighbours inspection chamber. This call out costed £225 (20 minutes he was here). They quoted an additional £335 to come out and remove a toilet and unblock from the inside! I called around and found someone local who came, removed a bathroom cabinet to get access to it and removed the blockage and put everything back together for £130, it only took two hours. He even showed the pipes to me on the camera and the blockage was quite far down and would have been accessible by the Dyno Rod engineer if he would have at least gave it a better try. He was very nice however didnt seem particularly worried that we had no toilet. I wish we didn't bother calling these, an expensive mistake. If you are reading this, please consider local experts as these will just try and rip you off.

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Collette Connolly29 May 2023

For 5 weeks I have been backwards and forwards to Dyno Rod MANCHESTER. 2 managers & 4 engineers later I am still no closer to finding out what the problem is under my floor. They said they fixed the issue and haven't then closed my job!!!! I am 7 months pregnant with STAGNANT, SMELLY, UNSANITARY WATER, submerged in electrical wires under my floor. I have been left in such a hazardous environment and they do not care in the slightest about their customers. It is all about contracts and money. The staff in the office are complete jobs worths! Maybe if you cleared out the water at the end of "finding the problem" you would then know if you had ACTUALLY resolved it. Absolute clowns 🤡 Did you just guess at what the problem was? Utter laziness!

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Anne Colderley10 May 2023

Part of honey plumb ltd Horrible customer service horrible company stay well away heather is a waste of time ,they cut a hole in our celing left the mwas everywhere and refused to fix it , spoke to 3 other plumbers that laughed when we shown them what Dyno rod had done scammers ,,,

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P.T. Black13 April 2023

Incompetent. Dudes came to check my blocked sewage pipe and charged over £100just for saying aw we didn’t find out where it could be.

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Was 31320 March 2023

Had a plumbing issue and have a Homecare policy via British Gas. Contacted Dynorod and was told they had no available appointments for a week. Had to fork out over £100 privately. Thank you clowns.

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1Jet Clear Drains★ 5,0210Yes
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4MCC Solutions★ 5,033Yes
5Blocked Drains North West LTD★ 5,030Yes
12Dyno-Rod Greater Manchester & Crewe (this page)★ 1,915Yes
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