Blocked drain? We snake it today.
Drain snaking is the work we do more than anything else — kitchen lines, main stacks, floor drains, across Innisfil, Barrie and the northern GTA. Cabled properly, priced before we start, and we tell you honestly whether it is going to come back.
Every drain in the house, and the one under the lawn
Most of what we do is volume drain work. Here is what that actually looks like, and what each one usually turns out to be.
Kitchen sinks
The most common call we get. Years of grease and soap cool on the wall of the pipe until the opening is the width of a pencil. Cabling it clears it; if it comes back every spring, the line has a rough or bellied section holding it.
Main sewer stack
When every fixture in the house drains slowly at once, or the basement floor drain gurgles when you flush upstairs, the blockage is in the main. That is a snaking job first, and only a digging job if the camera says so.
Basement floor drains
Usually the first place sewage shows up, which means it is also the earliest warning you get. If yours has ever backed up, ask us about a backwater valve before it happens a second time.
Toilets and stacks
Wipes, regardless of what the packet claims. Cotton buds, toys, and the occasional phone. We clear it without pulling the toilet where we can, and reset it properly where we cannot.
Laundry and utility lines
Lint and detergent build the same way grease does. These lines are often the smallest in the house and the first to close up.
Outside and storm lines
Roots find a clay lateral through the joints and grow into a mat. We cut them out; the camera afterwards tells you whether it is annual maintenance or a section that needs replacing.
Clearing it is the easy part
Almost any blockage can be opened. The question worth paying for is why it blocked. A kitchen line that closes up every spring is grease sitting on a rough section. A main that backs up after heavy rain is usually roots or a partial collapse. Clearing without answering that just books the next call.
Cable or jetting
It depends on what is in the line and what the pipe can take. A cable cuts through roots and punches a hole through a solid blockage. Jetting scours the wall of the pipe and is what actually removes years of grease rather than boring through it. An old clay lateral and a modern PVC run do not get treated the same way, and a pipe that is already cracked does not get jetted at all.
When snaking is not the answer
If we have cleared the same line twice, we will say so rather than sell you a third visit. That is the point at which a camera earns its money — and occasionally the point at which the honest answer is that the lateral needs replacing. We do that work too, so we have no reason to hide it from you, and no reason to rush you into it.
Floor drains and backwater valves
If your basement floor drain has ever backed up, ask about a backwater valve. In parts of Innisfil, Bradford and Barrie the municipality subsidises them, and it is far cheaper than the second flood.
What you can do in the meantime
Grease into the bin, never the sink. Nothing but the obvious down the toilet, wipes included, whatever the packet says. And if a drain has only started running slow, it is much cheaper to look at it now than at 11pm on a holiday weekend.
Drain snaking across Simcoe County and the northern GTA
Based in Innisfil and on the road every day. Pick your town for what we usually find there.
The rest of what we do
Drain camera inspection
When a line keeps blocking, the camera is what turns guessing into knowing.
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Tell us what the drain is doing.
Describe it and we will tell you straight whether it can wait until morning.
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Describe it in your own words. You will get a real answer from a plumber, not an automated reply - usually the same day, and within the hour if it is an emergency.
- We price before we start. In writing, and it is the number you pay.
- We will tell you if it can wait. Sometimes the honest answer is shut the valve and sleep on it.
- Licensed and fully insured. Every job warrantied.