Plumbing
Drain Cleaning & Sewer
A slow sink is annoying. A main line backing up into the shower is a different problem entirely. We clear both, and we look at why it happened.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week · CSLB #902886 · Serving Perris and Riverside County since 2007
What we handle
- Kitchen, bathroom, laundry and floor drain clearing
- Main line stoppages and sewer backups
- Cable machine and hydro jetting depending on what the line needs
- Sewer camera inspection so you can see the actual condition of the pipe
- Root intrusion clearing
- Locating a line and marking its depth and path
- Sewer line repair and replacement
- Cleanout installation where a house does not have one
Clearing it and fixing it are different things
A cable machine punches a hole through a stoppage and gets the water moving again. That is the right call at 11pm when sewage is coming up in the tub.
It is not a diagnosis. If a line has backed up three times in two years, something is wrong with the pipe itself: roots, a belly holding water, a break, or scale buildup narrowing the whole run. Clearing it again just resets the clock.
The camera is how you stop guessing
Running a camera down the line shows you what is actually there instead of anyone theorizing about it. Roots at a joint look different from a collapsed section, and they need different work.
It also matters when someone is telling you a line needs full replacement. You should be able to see what they are seeing.
Roots are the usual suspect around here
Older neighborhoods in Riverside County have clay and cast iron sewer laterals with mature trees planted over them. Roots find the joints, get in, and catch everything that goes past.
Cutting them out buys time. Whether that time is measured in months or years depends on how bad the intrusion is, and the camera tells you which.
When it is more than a clog
- More than one fixture draining slowly at the same time
- Water coming up in a tub or shower when the toilet flushes
- Gurgling from a drain when a different fixture runs
- A sewer smell in the yard or around a cleanout
- An unusually green or soggy patch of lawn along the line
- Backups that keep returning after being cleared
- Toilets that need to be plunged regularly
- Slow drains throughout the house rather than at one fixture
How it works
What happens after you call
- 1
Get it flowing
First priority is stopping the backup so the house is usable again.
- 2
Look at the line
Where it makes sense, we camera the line so you can see the condition rather than take our word for it.
- 3
Tell you what we found
Roots, a belly, scale, a break, or just a bad clog. You get the honest version, including when the answer is that nothing is wrong with the pipe.
- 4
Repair if it needs it
If the line needs work, we price it in writing before anything starts.
Questions
Straight answers
If yours is not here, call and ask. We would rather explain it than have you guess.
Should I use a store-bought drain chemical first?
We would rather you did not. Caustic drain openers sit on top of a full stoppage doing very little, they damage older pipes, and they make the job hazardous for whoever opens the line afterward. Mechanical clearing is safer and it actually works.
What is the difference between snaking and hydro jetting?
A cable machine bores through the blockage and restores flow. Hydro jetting uses high pressure water to scour the full inside diameter of the pipe, which clears grease and scale that a cable passes right through. Jetting is better for restoring a line to full capacity. It is not right for every pipe, and on old or compromised lines it can do damage, which is why the camera comes first.
How do I know if it is my line or the city's?
The lateral from your house to the main is generally your responsibility, and the main in the street is the city's. Camera work and locating tell us where the problem sits. If it turns out to be on the city side, we will tell you so you are not paying for their pipe.
How often should a sewer line be cleaned?
There is no universal schedule. A line with no root intrusion and no defects may go many years without attention. A line with known roots often gets put on a periodic maintenance interval to prevent backups. The camera is what tells you which situation you are in.
Can you do this at night?
Yes. A sewer backup is not something to sleep on, literally or otherwise. We run 24 hours.
What if the backup already flooded the house?
Sewage backup is contaminated water and it is not a mop-and-bucket situation. We handle the extraction, disinfection and drying as well as the plumbing repair, under the same license.
Where we work
We are based in Perris and work across Riverside County.
Perris · Menifee · Moreno Valley · Sun City · Lake Elsinore · Canyon Lake · Nuevo · Homeland · Romoland · Hemet · Riverside · Murrieta · Temecula · Wildomar
Damage does not wait. Neither do we.
Call now and talk to someone who can get a crew moving.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week · Licensed, bonded and insured · CSLB #902886