A slow drain has two common cures, and they aren\u2019t interchangeable. A snake punches a hole through whatever is clogging the pipe so water can pass again. Jetting scrubs the pipe wall back to bare material. Picking the wrong one means either overpaying for a simple clog or clearing the same blockage every few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A drain snake is a flexible cable fed down the line until it reaches the clog, then spun to break through it or hook it out. It\u2019s quick, inexpensive and ideal for a single fixture clogged with hair, a flushed wipe or soap buildup. What it doesn\u2019t do is remove the gunk coating the pipe around the hole it just made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hydro jetting sends water down the line at high pressure through a nozzle that sprays backward as well as forward. That strips grease, scale and sludge off the pipe wall and flushes it away, restoring the full original diameter instead of a narrow channel through the middle of the clog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kitchen lines clogged with cooled grease are the clearest case for jetting \u2014 a snake slides right through soft grease and leaves the walls just as coated as before. Tree roots, common in older Clintonville sewer lines, usually need a cutting head first and jetting after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A single bathroom drain clogged with hair, on the other hand, rarely justifies bringing a jetter to the house at all. Thirty seconds with a snake does it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Old clay, cast iron that has rusted thin, or any line with a known crack should be inspected before jetting. The pressure that scrubs a healthy pipe clean can blow open a weak one. A plumber who jets an unknown line without looking first is gambling with your floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cIf the same drain clogs twice in a year, the first cleaning didn\u2019t fail \u2014 it was the wrong method for what\u2019s really in the pipe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
5. Ask for a camera before you pick either one<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A camera inspection takes a few minutes and settles the question for good. It shows whether you\u2019re dealing with a soft clog, a hard scale layer, roots, a collapsed section or a slope that was laid wrong to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That last one matters most, because no amount of snaking or jetting fixes a pipe that doesn\u2019t run downhill. Knowing which problem you have before paying for a cure is the whole point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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