The kitchen sink
Grease, food scraps and soap can collect inside a kitchen drain until it slows. Raleigh’s City sewer page says not to pour cooking grease, fats and oils down the sink.
Drain Cleaning in Raleigh
A slow sink, a tub that will not drain or a clog in the kitchen, the laundry or the main line can be cleared by a plumber. Call us, tell us which drain is giving trouble and we connect you with one.
Let us know if just one drain is slow or several are, and whether anything is coming back up into the house.
Where the clog is
Bathroom sinks, tubs and showers
In a bathroom, hair and soap build up inside the drain pipe until the basin or tub holds water. Removing that buildup gets the water moving again.
Laundry and floor drains
Lint and debris can clog a laundry drain or a floor drain, and so can a blockage deeper in the line. Whichever it is, the plumber clears it.
The main line out of the house
Several drains slowing together, or waste surfacing in a tub or floor drain, suggests a blockage in the line leaving the house, and that line is what gets cleared.
Clearing the line all the way to the City main
Raleigh says sewer backups occur between the house and the City’s sewer main, and a blocked sewer service there is the property owner’s to correct.
If a plumber clears the blockage, the City’s advice is to ask for it to be cleared all the way to the City main. The City names grease, tree roots and so-called flushable wipes among the causes of backups.
Drain cleaning and the license law
Drain cleaning itself falls outside the state plumbing licensing law, which also leaves out minor repairs and minor replacements to an already installed system.
If the drain turns out not to be clogged, sewer line repair or fixture repair may be what you need. Our homepage shows the other services we cover.
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