Sewer & Drain across Middle Tennessee

Sewer & Drain across Middle Tennessee

Drain and sewer crews who clear the stoppage first, then put a camera down the line and show you what caused it.

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 houses are not the same in any two of those towns, and neither is the sewer and drain work:

• Nashville. Houses built before the war sent their waste out through vitrified clay tile laid in short sections, and every one of those joints is a door for roots, so a camera run here usually meets roots before anything else.
• Brentwood. Late-eighties and nineties houses have PVC laterals that seldom break, and the calls here are bellies where the backfill settled under the pipe and cleanouts buried under thirty years of landscaping.
• Murfreesboro. Subdivisions from the 2000s run PVC that rarely cracks; when one of these lines backs up, it is often a belly where the trench backfill sank, or the first root finding a joint as the yard trees reach full size.
• Hendersonville. The earliest houses of the seventies may still have Orangeburg; the rest have early PVC or ABS that holds up in the run but has spent forty-odd years in shifting clay, so the camera tends to find a separated joint or a sag near the foundation.
• Columbia. Houses built before the war sent their waste out through vitrified clay tile laid in short sections, and every one of those joints is a door for roots, so a camera run here usually meets roots before anything else.
• Lebanon. Out past the sewer mains, a house sends its waste to a septic tank and a field in the yard, and most of our work there is pumping, inspecting and repairing those instead of clearing a city lateral.