Sewer & Drain · Nashville, TN
Drain Cleaning in Nashville
Kitchen, bath, laundry and main line stoppages cleared at the cause, with the camera brought in when the same drain keeps coming back.
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Drain Cleaning in Nashville, Tennessee
Kitchen, bath, laundry and main line stoppages cleared at the cause, with the camera brought in when the same drain keeps coming back.
For drain cleaning, Nashville's Sewer and Drain works across Middle Tennessee — licensed, insured, with the price in writing before the work starts. Drain and sewer crews who clear the stoppage first, then put a camera down the line and show you what caused it.
Why homeowners call
Signs that bring people to us for this
- Sewage coming up a floor drain
- Every drain in the house slow at once
- Gurgling toilet when the washer drains
- Sewer smell in the yard or basement
- A soggy, sunken strip over the sewer line
- Roots back in the line every year
- Sump pump running and running
What is included
What our drain cleaning work includes
- Which drains are slow, and since when, asked first
- Fixture traps and arms cleared with a hand cable
- Main line opened from the cleanout with a machine
- Cutter head sized to the pipe it runs in
- Jetting brought in for grease, sludge and scale
- Water run at volume to prove the line is open
- Camera inspection when the same drain blocks again
- What came out of the pipe shown to you
How Drain Cleaning goes, from cleanout to final pass
The first question is where the stoppage sits. One slow sink means a trap or a branch line, cleared from that fixture with a small cable. When a toilet gurgles as the washer empties, or a tub fills while the toilet flushes, the trouble is past the point where those drains meet, and we go to the main cleanout instead of the fixture.
A cable punches through and cuts, while a jet scours. Cabling suits hair, wipes, a dropped toy, or roots just starting at a joint. Kitchen lines coated with grease and laundry lines packed with lint and soap close up again within weeks of a cable, so those get jetted to strip the wall back to bare pipe.
Floor drains and commercial kitchens are their own jobs. A basement floor drain is often the lowest opening on the whole system, so it is where a backup surfaces first and where a dry trap lets sewer gas in. A restaurant line takes grease every hour the kitchen is open, and keeping it running means jetting it on an interval set by how fast it builds up.
A drain we have cleared once is a service call. The same drain twice in a year is a question, and the answer is on camera: a sag, a broken joint or roots coming back through the same crack will keep closing the line however well it is cleaned, and only a repair ends that.
Drain Cleaning
The drain cleaning we do, one page each
Hydro Jetting
Water at several thousand psi scours grease, scale and fine roots off the pipe wall, where a cable only punches a hole through them.
Learn moreMain Line Drain Cleaning
The line every fixture empties into, opened from the cleanout when two drains back up at once or the lowest one gurgles.
Learn moreCommercial Drain Cleaning
Restaurant, retail and office lines kept open on a schedule, with grease lines jetted before they close a kitchen on a Friday.
Learn moreFloor Drain Cleaning
Basement, garage and laundry floor drains cleared and their traps checked, so sewer gas stays below the floor.
Learn moreAlso available
Other sewer, drain and septic work
Trenchless Sewer Repair
Lining or bursting a failed sewer lateral through a cleanout or a pair of small access pits, so the lawn, driveway and trees above it stay where they are.
Learn moreSewer Line Repair
Bellies, offset joints, root intrusion and collapsed sections repaired after the camera has shown where and how deep they are.
Learn moreSewer Camera Inspection
A camera run the length of the lateral, recorded, with the distance to every defect read off the cable counter.
Learn moreEmergency Sewer and Drain
Sewage coming up a floor drain or a tub, or no drain in the house that will take water, answered day or night.
Learn moreSeptic Services
Tanks, fields and grinder pumps for homes off the city sewer or sitting below it, from the first inspection to a new system.
Learn moreSump Pump Services
Sump pits, pumps, check valves and discharge lines for basements and crawl spaces that take water in a hard rain.
Learn moreService area
Sewer and drain calls we take across Middle Tennessee
Our trucks reach Nashville and 100 more towns in 12 counties, and we take sewer and septic calls anywhere within about an hour of the city.
FAQ
Drain Cleaning: what people ask first
How do I know if the clog is in my main line or just one drain?
Watch what the other fixtures do. If only one sink or tub is slow, the clog is in that fixture’s trap or branch line. If the toilet bubbles when the washer drains, the shower backs up when someone flushes, or water appears in the lowest drain in the house, the stoppage is in the main line, and plunging upstairs won’t reach it.
Why does my kitchen sink drain keep clogging?
Grease, in most kitchens. Fat and oil go down warm and liquid, then cool and coat the pipe wall a little further along, catching food scraps until the opening closes. A cable pokes a hole through that layer and the sink drains for a while; jetting removes the coating along the whole line. Wiping pans into the trash before washing does more than any drain product.
Can drain cleaning damage old pipes?
It can if the wrong tool goes into the wrong pipe. An oversized cutter can catch on a cracked clay joint, and high jetting pressure can tear through Orangeburg or thin cast iron. We match the cable head and the jet pressure to the pipe material, and when a line is old and its condition unknown, the camera goes in before anything aggressive does.
How often should drains be professionally cleaned?
Most household drains never need cleaning on a schedule and only need attention when they slow. The exceptions are lines with a known problem, such as roots at a joint you have decided not to repair yet, or a kitchen line that greases up. For those, a cleaning every year or so, before the backup, beats paying for an after-hours call.
Free estimate
Book drain cleaning with our crew
Call or write to Nashville's Sewer and Drain with what the drains are doing; we clear the line first and price any repair from the camera footage.