Kitchen Drain Cleaning

Kitchen drains block differently from every other drain in the house, and the reason is grease. It goes down warm and liquid, and sets hard further along the pipe where you cannot see it.

Kitchen Drains

The Grease Layer Is the Whole Problem

A cable punched through a greasy kitchen line makes a hole in the middle of the blockage. The water runs again, so the job looks finished — and the layer coating the pipe wall is still there, ready to catch the next thing that comes along.

That is why kitchen lines with a real build-up get jetted rather than cabled: jetting scours the pipe back toward its original bore instead of boring a channel through the deposit.

✓Grease build-up scoured, not punched — so the fix lasts more than a few months.
✓Garburator and dishwasher lines — the shared branch is checked, not just the sink.
✓Cause identified — if the line keeps blocking we camera it rather than guess.
✓No chemical cleaners — they do very little to a hard grease layer.

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What We Handle

Slow and blocked kitchen sinks
Grease build-up in the branch line
Garburator discharge blockages
Dishwasher drainage backing up
Double-bowl sinks backing into each other
Smells coming back up the drain
Jetting for heavy build-up
Leaking traps and wastes

While We Are There

Blocked drains rarely travel alone. Here is what else we handle.

FAQs

Kitchen Drain Questions

Fats, oils and grease. They go down the sink warm and liquid, then cool as they travel and set on the pipe wall. Over months that layer narrows the pipe until anything solid catches on it. Nothing else in the house does that.

It moves the problem rather than solving it. Hot water melts the grease at the sink and lets it re-set further along the line, where it is harder to reach. Cold water while the garburator runs is better practice.

Worth establishing before you spend money. If the sink drains fine when the garburator is off but backs up when it runs, that points at the discharge line. If it is slow either way, it is the drain. Garburator repair is here.

Usually a blockage in the shared branch, or a dishwasher drain hose without a proper high loop so waste water siphons back. Both are straightforward once identified.

Keep fats, oils and grease out of the sink — wipe pans before washing. Avoid putting fibrous scraps, coffee grounds, rice and pasta down the garburator. And on a kitchen line with a real build-up, jetting scours the pipe wall rather than just punching a hole through the middle of it.

Kitchen Drain Cleaning

The Grease Layer Is the Whole Problem

What We Handle

While We Are There

Kitchen Drain Questions

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