Drain cleaning and sewer line repair in Nashville, day or night

In Nashville a drain call is priced by the stoppage and how the line is reached, and a sewer repair by what the camera found, how deep the pipe runs and what sits over it; the recording comes before the number, so the quote describes the pipe you actually have.

Sewage coming up in Nashville is answered day or night, because a house with no working drain cannot wait for Monday; a slow drain, a camera inspection or a septic check is usually booked within a few days.

Sewer and drain calls from Nashville are covered together with Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, part of the 101 towns across 12 counties on our routes.

The sewer and drain company doing our work holds the plumbing license its jobs require and carries liability insurance, its septic crews work under TDEC installer and pumper permits, and copies of all of it are on file with us before the first job.

No — free, written, and no obligation.

Send the form; the workmanship is backed in writing.

That depends mostly on the year the house was built. Houses from before World War II usually have vitrified clay tile running out to the street, often with cast iron inside the house. A good share of those put up between the mid-1940s and the early 1970s were connected with Orangeburg, a tar-soaked fiber pipe, and PVC or ABS took over after that. Additions and past repairs mix the materials, so a camera run is the only way to know for certain.

No. Hot water carries the grease a little farther before it cools and sets on the pipe wall, usually out in the main line where it is harder to reach. Layer by layer it narrows the pipe and catches everything else that comes down. Let fats cool in a can and throw them out with the trash, and wipe greasy pans with a paper towel before they go in the sink.

Solids build until they spill out of the tank into the field lines and seal the soil around them, and a sealed field cannot be cleaned out. At that point the field usually has to be rebuilt or moved, a far bigger job than any pumping. How often a tank needs it depends on its size and the household using it; an inspection that measures the sludge and scum layers gives you the interval.

Usually because rainwater is getting into the sewer, through cracks and open joints in your own line or into the public main, which then runs high and pushes back up the laterals. Groundwater leaking into a cracked lateral can fill it before anything in the house is used. A camera run shows whether the leak is in your line, and a backwater valve keeps a surcharged main from reaching the lowest drain.

In a house more than a few decades old, yes. A remodel opens the floors and walls that hide the drains, so it is the least disruptive moment to replace a cracked cast-iron run or a sagging branch. New fixtures can also send more water down the main than it carried before. A camera run before the design is settled tells you whether the line out to the street can take it.