Clogged Drain

When this becomes an emergency

• Grey water rising in the shower while nothing in the bathroom is running.
• A kitchen sink holding water overnight and draining by morning.
• The washer discharging faster than the standpipe can take it.
• A basement floor drain that smells strongest right after a load of laundry.

What a pro does

Count the fixtures involved and most of the diagnosis is done. A lone slow lavatory is a trap or a branch problem. Anything appearing at the basement floor drain is the main line talking, and the plumber goes straight to the cleanout instead of working at the fixture. Housing age drives the rest of it. A furniture-era house off Wealthy or Fulton likely has cast iron branches, and decades of scale on the inside wall of iron pipe means the line catches material a smooth plastic run would pass. Kitchen lines repeat the most. Cooled grease coats the pipe rather than blocking it, so the drain narrows over years instead of failing on one day. The plumber sizes the cable or the jetter to the pipe, clears it, then loads the line hard with water and watches whether the level holds. If it reloads within a week or two the problem isn't debris, and a camera goes in to find out what the pipe itself is doing.

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