Clogs cleared, sewer lines inspected and repaired.
We clear the blockage first. Then we run a camera down the line to see why it blocked, and tell you whether it needs a repair or just a clean.
Drains & Sewer services
Pick a job
Choose one on the left and you get what it covers in plain English. If it is already leaking, flooding or you can smell gas, skip the reading and call.
What the line does while you wait
A drain does not recover on its own. Everything that goes down it from here adds to what is already sitting in there.
- Today
One fixture draining slowly
Left a monthThe main closes and the lowest drain in the house becomes the overflow, which is usually a finished basement.
- Today
Roots at a single joint, on camera
Left a monthA cracked section and a dig across the garden, rather than a cut, a clean and a repair to one joint.
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Grease building up on the pipe wall
Left a monthA line that wants jetting every few months instead of once, because the bore never went back to full.
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No backwater valve on the line
Left a monthCity sewage coming up into the basement the next time the main surcharges in a storm, and that is a cleanup, not a drain call.
What the drain is telling you
The useful question is never how slow it is. It is how many fixtures are affected, because that tells you whether the problem is under the sink or under the yard.
- Two or more drains are slow at the same time
- The blockage is past the point where those fixtures join, so it is the main line. Plunging one sink will not touch it.
- The toilet bubbles when the washing machine drains
- Air being pushed back past a partial blockage. The line is not fully closed yet, which is the good news.
- Water rises in the shower when you flush
- Classic main line back up. The lowest fixture in the house shows it first, which is why basements find out before anyone else.
- The basement smells of sewage after heavy rain
- Storm water is getting into the sanitary line, or a trap has dried out. Worth sorting before the next storm rather than after.
- A strip of lawn over the sewer line is greener than the rest
- The line is leaking and feeding the grass. It is a reliable tell, and free to spot.
- It blocks again within a few months of being cleared
- Snaking punched a hole through it rather than cleaning it, or roots are back. A camera settles which.
What turns a clog into a dig
Drain calls are the ones most often made worse before we arrive, and chemical cleaner is behind most of it.
Do not pour chemical drain cleaner into a fully blocked line
It cannot reach the clog, so it sits in the pipe as caustic liquid. It attacks older pipe, and it burns whoever opens that line next, which may well be us.
Do not keep flushing to push it through
Every flush adds to what has nowhere to go. The overflow point is the lowest drain in the house, usually a finished basement.
Do not run the washer or dishwasher while the main is backing up
They discharge a lot of water fast. That is how a slow back up becomes water across a floor.
Do not accept a clear without knowing why it blocked
A cleared line tells you nothing about roots, grease or a collapsed section. Ten minutes of camera is what stops you paying for the same call twice.
Clear it, then find out why
Get the water moving
The blockage comes first, through a cleanout where there is one. You get your drains back before anything else is discussed.
Camera the line
A clear line tells you nothing on its own. The camera shows roots, grease, scale, bellies and cracks, and you watch the screen with us.
Locate and depth it
If there is a fault, we mark it on the ground above and note how deep it is, so any quote for digging is based on a spot rather than a guess.
Clean or repair, your call
Some lines need jetting on a schedule. Some need a section replaced. We tell you which one you have and price both where both are real options.
What changes a drain price
Clearing a blockage and repairing a line are two different jobs with two different numbers. These are the things that decide each.
Whether there is a cleanout
A proper cleanout means we are working in minutes. Without one we may have to pull a toilet to get access, which adds time to every visit you ever have.
Cable or hydro jet
A cable punches through a blockage. Jetting scours the wall back to full diameter. Grease and scale need jetting or they close up again.
How long and deep the run is
A kitchen branch and a sewer lateral to the street are not comparable jobs. Depth decides everything about a dig.
Roots or a collapse
Roots can be cut and the joint repaired. A collapsed or badly bellied section has to be replaced, and that is excavation.
Which side of the property line
Responsibility for the city side varies by municipality. We will tell you where the fault sits so you know who owns the repair before you pay for it.
Drains questions
Drains across the GTA
Every job on this page, anywhere in the GTA. The crew comes to you: this is a mobile business, not a shop you drive to.
Need drains help now?
Emergency or planned job, you get an arrival window on the phone and a price before any work starts. Anywhere in the GTA, 24/7.
