Karcher Pipe Cleaning Set

Great Home Maintenance Tool – Our kitchen sink started running slow and backing up, and when none of the usual drain cleaning chemicals or plunging fixed it, we purchased this kit from Bunnings for $69. It worked brilliantly, and took about 20 minutes to break up the blockage and get the pipe completely clean. We used it with our little K2 (which is still going strong). So… Read more

$98 for the K2, plus $69 for the Pipe Kit, and we saved ourselves a visit from the plumber. And we can now regularly clean the pipe.

The hose nipped around the right angle into the kitchen with no trouble (it needs an internal curve of more than 70mm to navigate a right angle). The brass pressure head shoots the water and blockage back towards the user, like a plumber's hydrojet does. Our access hatch is just downstream from the kitchen, so we could see the gunk shooting out.

The drawback is that the 7.5m hose is not long enough to reach our bathrooms or laundry. The Karcher gutter and pipe cleaning kit has a 20m hose, so that would have probably been more useful to us.