Drain & Sewer Services Vancouver BC

24/7

Response for a backup

Camera

Inspection before we guess

Mechanical

Cleared properly, not chemically

Upfront

Written pricing every time

Drain & Sewer

Find the Cause, Not Just the Blockage

Clearing a drain is easy. Clearing the same drain three times in a year means nobody ever asked why it keeps blocking.

So where a drain has backed up more than once, or where several fixtures are involved, we put a camera down it before quoting anything. Roots, a bellied section, scale, a collapsed joint and a plug of grease all look identical from the top of the pipe and need completely different answers.

✓Cleared mechanically — cable, auger or jetting — not a bottle of chemistry poured in and hoped over.
✓Camera where it is warranted — on repeat blockages and sewer lines, so the cause is seen rather than guessed.
✓Upfront written pricing — agreed before anyone opens a cleanout.
✓24/7 for a backup — sewage coming back up a floor drain does not wait.
✓Honest limits — we clear and inspect; if it needs excavation we say so and hand you the footage.

Drain Services

Why Here

Drainage Matters More in Metro Vancouver

We get a lot of rain, a lot of trees, and a lot of houses built on ground that does not drain quickly.

Rain, and a lot of it

The North Shore and the eastern valley take enough rainfall that perimeter drains and sump pumps are working equipment, not a precaution. An atmospheric river is when a silted-up line finally shows itself.

Mature trees

Established neighbourhoods have established root systems, and roots find the smallest gap in a clay or concrete sewer line. Root intrusion is one of the most common causes of a repeat blockage here.

High water tables

Richmond, Ladner and Tsawwassen sit low with the water table close to the surface. There is very little margin when drainage stops working.

FAQs

Drain Questions

Rarely, and they cause their own problems. They often fail to shift the blockage, then sit in the trap where they damage older pipe and seals — and they make the job genuinely hazardous for whoever opens it next. If you have already poured some in, tell us so we can handle it safely. Clearing a drain mechanically works; adding more chemistry does not.

Not especially — a single slow fixture is almost always a local build-up in that trap or branch. What matters is if several fixtures are slow at once, or if a lower fixture gurgles when you use an upper one. That points further down the system, and it is worth looking at properly before it becomes a backup.

The pipe that runs around the footing of your house and carries groundwater away from the foundation. In the rest of Canada they are often called drain tile or weeping tile. In Metro Vancouver they do more work than almost any other part of the house, and when they silt up the water has nowhere to go but in. More on perimeter drains.

No — we clear, inspect and maintain drains rather than dig them up. If the camera shows a collapsed or badly offset line that genuinely needs replacing, we will tell you that plainly and you will have the footage to take to an excavation contractor. We would rather hand you an honest diagnosis than sell you work we are not set up to do.

A single slow sink is not. Sewage backing up into a tub or a floor drain is — call us, and in the meantime stop running water into the system. Emergency service.

Drain & Sewer Services in Metro Vancouver