Drain Cleaning in Richardson, TX

A single fixture drain, like a sink, tub, or shower, runs $150 to $350. A main line clearing through the cleanout runs $250 to $600. If there is no accessible cleanout and we have to pull a toilet, expect $350 to $700. Hydro jetting is $400 to $900. A camera inspection is $150 to $400. We quote the number before we start.

If one sink or tub is slow and everything else works, it is that fixture. If the toilet backs up when the washing machine drains, if the tub gurgles when you flush, or if more than one fixture is backing up, the problem is in your main line. If it is the main line, stop using water everywhere in the house. Everything you send down is coming back up.

No. They will eat hair and light soap scum, and they will not touch grease, roots, wipes, or a broken pipe, which is what is actually blocking your line. They sit on top of the clog as a standing column of caustic liquid, they degrade older PVC and corrode cast iron, and when a plumber finally puts a hand or a cable in there, that chemical is still present and it splashes. If you already poured some in, tell us on the phone. We will bring different gear.

A cable punches a hole through the blockage and restores flow. A hydro jet uses high-pressure water to scour the pipe wall to wall and actually remove the deposit. On a grease line, cabling is temporary: it makes a hole, the water flows, and the grease is still coating the pipe, so it closes back up in a few months. Jetting removes it.

A clog that comes back is not a clog, it is a symptom. Either it is grease that cabling only punched a hole through, or roots at a joint, or a belly in the line where the pipe sagged and now holds water permanently, or a collapsed cast iron section. Those cost anywhere from $250 to $15,000 to resolve and they look identical from the outside. That is why we camera it.

Before we cut, jet, or quote anything past a simple clearing, yes. The same symptom has five different causes and they range from $250 to $15,000. Nobody can tell which one you have by feel, and anyone who quotes you a repair without looking is guessing with your money. It costs $150 to $400 and it saves considerably more.

You are probably not buying drain cleaning. You are renting time on a pipe that needs repair. Cabling a grease line is temporary. Roots come back in 12 to 24 months. A bellied or collapsed line cannot be cleaned into working. Get a camera down it and find out what you are actually paying for.

Not always, and this matters in Richardson. Jetting runs up to about 4,000 PSI, and that can finish off a cast iron line that is already corroded and cracked. That is exactly why we camera first. Some outfits will jet anything you let them jet. We will not.

No. A disposal grinds solids. It does nothing to grease at all. The grease goes through it completely unchanged and coats the line downstream. Wipe the pan with a paper towel, pour grease into a can, and throw the can away.

No. They do not break down. They catch on the rough interior of an old cast iron line and build a mat, and the mat catches everything after it. In an older Richardson home with cast iron drain lines, wipes are one of the most reliable ways to cause a main line backup.

Probably. In a bathroom sink or tub, pull the stopper out and clean it. The clog is usually six inches down and it is hair wrapped around the stopper mechanism. A plunger works too, but block the overflow hole with a wet rag first or you are just pushing air. A hand snake is $15 to $25. Stop if it affects more than one fixture, if it keeps coming back, or if there is any sewage.

Roots do not attack a healthy pipe. They find a joint that is already weeping and grow toward the water, then grow inside and catch everything. Richardson has 1950s and 1960s neighborhoods with sixty-year-old trees over sixty-year-old pipe. Cutting the roots is a rental, not a purchase. They return in 12 to 24 months. The permanent fix is fixing the pipe.

If you call before noon on a weekday, usually yes. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. We are not a 24-hour company. After hours carries a flat $199 dispatch fee, quoted on the phone first. One slow drain is not an emergency and we will tell you so and save you the money. Sewage backing up into the house is, and that one does not wait.