Emergency Sewer and Drain in Nashville

Emergency Sewer and Drain in Nashville, Tennessee

Sewage coming up a floor drain or a tub, or no drain in the house that will take water, answered day or night.

For emergency sewer and drain, 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.

How Emergency Sewer and Drain goes, from cleanout to final pass

Stop using water first. Every flush, shower, dishwasher cycle and load of laundry has nowhere to go but up through the lowest drain, so stop the washer mid-cycle and tell everyone in the house. Keep children and pets out of any room where sewage has come up, and stay away from water that has reached outlets, cords or appliances.

On the call we sort out which emergency it is. Clear water spraying or pouring from a broken pipe is a burst line, and the main shutoff stops it before anything else happens. Sewage coming up a drain is a backup. Drains that won’t take water but haven’t overflowed yet are a stoppage we can usually clear at the main cleanout before they do.

Many houses have an outdoor cleanout, a capped pipe a few inches out of the ground near the foundation or along the route to the street. If the cap unscrews easily, look inside: standing water means the blockage is downstream toward the street, and an empty pipe puts it inside the house. Don’t force a stuck cap, because a full line can push sewage out when it comes loose.

Some calls can wait until morning without harm, and we say so when that is the case. A single slow sink with the rest of the house draining is one of them. The after-hours visit is for sewage in the house, no working drain at all, or water that won’t stop.