Drain Cleaning in Commerce City, CO

A clogged drain is not a leak — nothing is escaping the pipe, something is blocking it — but it is one of the most common calls we get in Commerce City, often right alongside a leak inspection. Kitchen drains clog with grease that the area's historically hard water kept from breaking down the way it would with softer water; pre-2021 SACWSD water at 21 grains per gallon left mineral scale inside drain lines the same way it pitted copper supply pipe. Bathroom drains clog with hair and soap scum that binds with that scale into a stubborn mass. Older cast iron sewer laterals under Commerce City's 1960s–80s tract blocks narrow with decades of buildup until root intrusion or accumulated debris backs the whole line up.

How We Clear a Drain

Most kitchen, bathroom, and single-fixture clogs clear with a drain snake, a flexible cable run down the line to break up or retrieve the blockage. For grease-heavy kitchen lines or a drain that clogs repeatedly, hydro jetting does a more thorough job: high-pressure water scours the full interior of the pipe rather than just punching through the clog, which is why jetted lines tend to stay clear longer than snaked ones.

Mainline and Sewer Lateral Clogs

When more than one drain is slow or several fixtures back up at once, the problem is rarely any single drain — it is the mainline or sewer lateral leaving the house. We run a sewer camera before recommending a fix on mainline calls, because a mainline clog and a mainline leak look identical from inside the house but need completely different repairs. If the camera shows a genuine leak rather than a clearable blockage, see our sewer line leak page instead. If instead you are seeing water where it should not be — a wet patch, a warm floor, a SACWSD bill climbing with no visible cause — that points toward a leak rather than a clog, and our general leak detection page is the better starting point.

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