What the work is
A cable cuts a hole through a blockage. A jetter washes the pipe wall. For a kitchen line packed with grease, or a main with years of soft scale on it, that difference is the difference between clearing it and fixing it.
It is not always the right call. Jetting an old, thin, or cracked line can make a small problem into an open one. We run a camera first on anything we are not sure of, and if the pipe cannot take the pressure we will tell you so and quote the repair instead. Saying no to the jetting is sometimes the honest sale.
What is included
- Jetting the main line from the cleanout with the nozzle chosen for what is in it
- A camera run afterwards on request so you can see the pipe wall, not just a working drain
- Root cutting where roots are the mass
What is not
- Jetting a line we believe will not survive it. We will say so and quote the alternative
- Repairing a line that fails during the work because it had already failed structurally
- Anything on the city's side of the connection
Why we camera first more often than most
A large share of the older housing stock in the county is on cast iron or clay, and both fail in ways that a jetter finds the hard way. A five-minute camera run before the jetter comes off the truck is cheaper than an emergency excavation, so we do it.
What to ask anyone quoting this, us included
- Have you looked at this pipe before jetting it, and what did you see?
- What pressure and what nozzle, and why that one?
- What happens if the pipe fails during the jetting?