Hydro Jetting & High-Pressure Sewer Cleaning in Scarborough

Snaking pushes a cable through the clog and opens a channel; the grease, scale, or root stubs stay on the pipe wall and the drain slows again. Hydro jetting scours the entire inside of the pipe with high-pressure water and flushes everything downstream, so the line is back to its full diameter. Snaking is the right call for a one-off blockage; hydro jet drain cleaning is the right call when the same line keeps clogging.

Yes, when the pipe is structurally sound — and that's exactly why we camera first. Intact clay tile and cast iron with wall thickness left handle sewer jetting without issue; we lower the pressure for older iron. We won't jet a collapsed section, Orangeburg, an offset joint, or iron rusted paper-thin, because the water would damage the pipe or the ground around it. In those cases you get the camera footage and a repair price instead.

It removes the roots completely — a root-cutting nozzle shears them flush with the pipe wall, which a cable can't do — but it can't close the joint they came through. On a clay main sewer line in Guildwood or Cliffside, jetting typically buys years rather than months before regrowth, and a yearly main sewer line cleaning keeps it clear indefinitely. If you want the roots gone permanently, the joint needs sealing or lining; we'll show you on camera whether that's worth it.

It depends on volume and the grease trap, but most Scarborough restaurants we service are on a scheduled grease line jetting every few months, timed around trap pumping. A planned drain jetting service at a quiet hour costs far less than an emergency backup during a Friday dinner rush — and gives you a service record for the health inspector. We set the interval after the first jetting based on what the camera shows.

Both. A smaller jetter and nozzle handle kitchen stacks, laundry lines, floor drains, and weeping tile; the trailer unit handles the main sewer out to the City connection. Residential kitchen jetting is the most common hydro jetting Scarborough homeowners book — decades of grease in a cast-iron kitchen line in a 1960s Wexford or Bendale home is something no cable or chemical will clear.

It depends on the length of the line, the access point, and what's in it — a kitchen line is less than a full main sewer line flushing, and heavy roots take more passes than grease. Jetting costs more per visit than snaking and less over a year than snaking three times. You get a written price after the camera pass and before the jetter is turned on, and that price includes the post-jet camera so you can see the result.