Drain Cleaning in Altamont, NY

Drain Cleaning in Altamont: what the job involves

A slow sink is annoying. A slow main is a warning. We start by working out which one you have, because the fix and the cost are completely different. A single slow fixture in a Altamont home is usually hair and soap in the trap arm or grease in a kitchen branch. When everything is slow at once, the problem is downstream of all of it and cabling a bathroom sink will not touch it.

We cable branch lines with the right head for the material, jet where build-up is heavy enough to need it, and pull the cleanout cap rather than pushing debris further into the system. If a line has been cleared three times in two years, we say so and put a camera down instead of selling you a fourth cleaning.

When to call us

• Water standing in a sink, tub or shower
• Gurgling from one drain when another one runs
• Kitchen sink backing up into the second bowl
• A drain that clears with chemicals and blocks again in a week

Altamont and the area around it

Housing across Altamont runs from pre-war homes on original galvanized supply lines to newer builds on PEX, and the problems split along the same lines. Older properties call us about pressure that has dropped away, rust in the hot water and clay sewer laterals with roots at every joint. Newer homes call about fittings, water heaters and drains. We carry parts for both.

We would rather talk you out of work you do not need. If a water heater has a dead element and a sound tank, that is a repair, not a replacement. If a drain has been cabled three times in two years, cleaning it again is not the answer and we will say so.