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Hydro Jetting

A cable punches a hole through a blockage. A jetter scours the pipe wall back toward its original bore. On a greased-up line, that difference is months versus years.

Water hitting a drain with force
Hydro Jetting

Scour the Pipe, Do Not Just Poke It

There is a reason a kitchen drain gets cleared and then blocks again the following spring. The cable made a hole; the hard layer of cooled grease lining the pipe never moved, and it starts catching debris the same day.

Jetting attacks that layer directly — high-pressure water through a head that drives forward and washes backward, cutting the deposit off the wall and carrying it away.

It is not the right tool for every line, and we would rather look first than find out the hard way on brittle pipe.

  • ✓Camera first on anything questionable — pressure matched to the pipe, not applied blind.
  • ✓Grease, scale, sediment and lint — the deposits a cable cannot remove.
  • ✓Root mass cleared with a cutting head — though the entry point still needs addressing.
  • ✓Flushed away down the line — rather than dragged back into the house.
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Hydro Jetting Questions

A cable bores a channel through the middle of a blockage. Water runs again, but the deposit coating the pipe wall is untouched and starts catching debris immediately. A jetter uses high-pressure water through a directional head to scour that layer off and flush it away. For grease, scale and sediment it is a genuinely different outcome.
On sound pipe, yes — pressure and head are matched to the pipe material and diameter. On old, brittle, cracked or already-compromised pipe it is not automatically the right tool, which is exactly why we camera first on anything questionable. Anyone who jets an unknown line without looking is taking a chance with your pipe.
Kitchen lines with a hard grease layer, laundry lines caked with lint and detergent, main lines with years of accumulation, and drains that keep blocking after being cabled. If cabling has been done twice and it keeps coming back, jetting is usually the honest next step.
Jetting with a cutting head clears root mass and flushes it out well. But it does not stop roots returning — they came in through a defect, and that defect is still there. The camera tells you how bad the entry point is. More on roots in a sewer line.
Not in practice. The work happens through a cleanout and the debris is flushed down the line rather than pulled back into the house. We protect the work area either way.

Clear It Properly

Camera first, so jetting is the right answer rather than a guess.

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