Browse by what your drain is doing
Most drain problems announce themselves in a few recognizable ways. Start with the symptom and work back to the cause.
The fixture showing the symptom is often not where the trouble is. Which drains are affected, and when, narrows the possibilities considerably before anybody opens anything.
Every page below covers one pattern: what is happening, what usually causes it, and what is worth checking yourself first.
Drains and sewers only
Not a plumbing company with a drain page. This is the whole job.
A camera on recurring calls
If a drain has backed up before, guessing at it twice is not a plan.
Northern Utah homes
Cast iron, clay lateral, hard water scale, roots. The local failure modes.
No fault found
Sometimes the camera goes down a line that has backed up three times and finds nothing wrong with the pipe. Grease, or roots at one joint, or a fixture that was never vented properly. The pipe itself is sound.
When that happens we clean it properly, tell you what caused it, and leave. That is the whole visit. A recurring clog is not evidence that a sewer needs replacing, and we are not going to say it is.
Describe the symptom and we will tell you what usually causes it. If it needs a look, we will come and look.
No call-out pressure and no sewer replacement pitch. If cleaning is the fix, cleaning is what we quote.
