Drain Cleaning in San Gabriel, CA

Plumbing Tips

What Drain Cleaning Covers

Drain cleaning is not one tool — it is choosing the right tool for the blockage in front of us:

• Kitchen and bathroom drains — grease, soap scum and hair, cleared at the fixture or deeper in the branch line

• Main sewer lines — rooter work for blockages between the house and the street

• Hydro jetting — high-pressure water that scours the pipe wall clean instead of punching a hole through the clog

• Camera inspection — when a line keeps clogging, we look inside it before recommending anything

• Emergency clearing — sewage backing up does not wait for business hours, and neither do we

How do you clear a drain — snaking or hydro jetting?

It depends on what is blocking the line. A cable machine is right for a localized clog or root mass; hydro jetting is right when the whole pipe wall is coated in grease or scale, because it cleans the full diameter rather than opening a channel. If we recommend jetting, it is because snaking would have you calling us back in a month.

Why does my drain keep clogging?

A clog that returns is almost never bad luck. Usually the line has a deeper problem — root intrusion at a clay joint, a sag where water pools, or a coating of grease the cable only pierced. A sewer camera inspection shows the actual cause, and turns a recurring service call into a one-time fix.