A spinning cable can punch a hole through a clog. It cannot tell you whether that clog is grease, a collapsed clay bell, or a root mass twenty feet toward the alley. We camera when it matters, then match the machine — cable, hydro-jet, or a repair — to what we actually saw.
Kitchen, bath, or the main
A slow kitchen is usually grease and starch in the 2-inch. A gurgling hall bath with a wet basement floor drain is often the main. If two fixtures complain at once, we stop guessing and look at the line. Vintage Home Services will not charge you three ‘snakes’ for a broken pipe.
Older Denver laterals
Park Hill, Highlands, Boulder’s University Hill, and a lot of mid-century Aurora still sit on clay or orangeburg. Those lines offset at the joints. A camera with footage you can keep is the difference between a $250 clean and a $12,000 surprise. We’ll show you the recording.
Prevention that isn’t folklore
- No grease in the kitchen — cool it and trash it
- Hair strainers in tubs actually work
- A yearly main-line look on clay is cheaper than a backup into a finished basement
- Flushable wipes are not flushable in a 1940s stack
- Video camera on the main
- Kitchen grease vs. tree roots, diagnosed
- No ‘we’ll see’ after the first pass