Clogged drains, recurring backups, root-blocked laterals, and the camera work that tells you which one you actually have.
Drains are the bulk of what we do. A single slow sink is usually a small job; a main line that backs up at the same time every year is a sewer lateral with roots in it, and those are different problems with different answers. We clear lines, jet them when the walls need scouring rather than a hole punched through, and put a camera down before recommending anything expensive.
From a sluggish bathroom sink to a kitchen line that backs up every time you run the dishwasher, we clear clogs at the source instead of just poking a hole through them. We use professional augers and hydro-jetting, so the line drains at full speed again. More on drain cleaning in San Jose.
Repeated backups, gurgling toilets, or sewage smells in the yard point to a sewer line problem. We run a camera to show you exactly what is going on, clear roots and blockages, and repair or replace damaged lines, using trenchless methods where they fit. More on sewer & main lines in San Jose.
Replacing a sewer lateral used to mean a trench down the middle of the yard, through the lawn, the walkway, and whatever was planted on top of it. Trenchless methods pull a new pipe through the path of the old one from two small access pits instead. On the right job it saves the hardscape and cuts the restoration work down to almost nothing. It is not right for every line. A collapsed pipe or a bad belly still has to be dug up. We camera the line first and tell you which one you are looking at. More on trenchless sewer piping in San Jose.
A cable clears the blockage. It does not remove the grease coating the inside of the pipe, which is why a kitchen line cleared with a cable is often back within months. Jetting runs high-pressure water down the line and takes that coating off, returning the pipe to its actual diameter. It is the right tool for recurring kitchen clogs and greasy main lines, and overkill for a simple hair clog in a bathroom sink. More on hydro jetting in San Jose.
You cannot tell a blocked pipe from a collapsed one at the top of a cleanout, and those have very different price tags. A camera shows what the pipe is made of, where roots are getting in, whether the line still holds its fall or has a belly collecting water, and whether anything has cracked or dropped out of line. We would rather you watched the screen with us than took our word for what is down there. More on sewer camera inspection in San Jose.
A disposal that hums without turning is jammed rather than broken, and that is often a five-minute fix you can do yourself with the hex key clipped to the side of the unit. Silence usually means the reset button or the breaker. What is not worth repairing is a unit leaking from the body, because the housing has corroded through. We will tell you which of those you have before charging you for the other. More on garbage disposal repair & installation in San Jose.
Describe what it is doing and we will tell you. Phone consultations do not cost anything, and if it is something you can sort out yourself we will say so.
We take emergency calls around the clock, seven days a week. Call at any hour and you get Dave, not an answering service reading off a script.
