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cyclone4L

cyclone4L

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Hey guys,

I recently bought a new house and I'm having a tough time with the plumbing in my laundry room. I've already snaked a few pipes with my handheld snake, but there is still a clog in the main drain that I just cant get to.

Does anyone know how to do this and would be willing to help me out. I'm willing to pay.

I have a video of the issue if that will help.

Let me know.
 
If it's a clogged main drain line you probably should just call RotoRooter. You aren't going to find many if any local plumbers that snake drain lines anymore and any snake tool you'd buy at the hardware store probably is not going to clear it either.
 
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If it's a clogged main drain line you probably should just call RotoRooter. You aren't going to find many if any local plumbers that snake drain lines anymore and any snake tool you'd buy at the hardware store probably is not going to clear it either.
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Do you know how much they charge?
 
If it is the main I’d find someone that does septic. They will have a camera on a line that shoots high pressure water to unclog it or have the cutter attachment if it’s tree roots in the main. If it’ a new house you should be on plastics sewer.
 
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cyclone4L said:
Hey guys,

I recently bought a new house and I'm having a tough time with the plumbing in my laundry room. I've already snaked a few pipes with my handheld snake, but there is still a clog in the main drain that I just cant get to.

Does anyone know how to do this and would be willing to help me out. I'm willing to pay.

I have a video of the issue if that will help.

Let me know.
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Can you elaborate more on what exactly is happening? Only the laundry room?
 
call Jessie at Jet Drain Service he'll put his camera in and see the problem, then blast those lines clear.

515-231-9963

Also, this thread is full of jokes
 
cyclone4L said:
Do you know how much they charge?
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I paid a guy 300 to cut a root ball out of the main line last year on a rental. Goes by the hour and a fee to bring the big machine. He was done in about 80 min
 
cyclone4L said:
Do you know how much they charge?
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You can always call and ask them. It's been awhile since I had to use them but I would expect just the trip charge alone to be close to $100.

Depends on what they have to do really, I once had to have a main sewer line scoped with a camera to see if there was a clog or collapsed portion of the line because the first guy that came out couldn't clear the clog for whatever reason and that wasn't cheap to have done. Strange enough by the time that guy came to camera it the line was clear and he found nothing wrong so whatever that 1st guy did it must have finally cleared the clog in between then.
 
There’s two things I always do when buying a house and before moving in (I’m on house number 6 right now:

Call the Duct Cleaner
Call Roto Rooter

and just have them do what they do.
 
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cyclone4L said:
Do you know how much they charge?
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We had a clog and my snake wasn’t long enough to get to it. Des Moines Drain and Sewer came out and did it for 80 bucks. I want to say they were there within an hour of calling as well. The guy was very polite and had no issues with them. There was some type of warranty for the clog removal too where if it did it again within like 90 days it was free for them to stop back out.
 
cyclone4L said:
Hey guys,

I recently bought a new house and I'm having a tough time with the plumbing in my laundry room. I've already snaked a few pipes with my handheld snake, but there is still a clog in the main drain that I just cant get to.

Does anyone know how to do this and would be willing to help me out. I'm willing to pay.

I have a video of the issue if that will help.

Let me know.
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I was getting water backed up from the laundry drain and a friend suggested I use the cleaner I will link below. I followed the directions and I haven't had an issue since. It has been a few years since I have had that issue. Could be coincidence...could be the product worked? Not sure...but it only cost $10 to try...guessing maybe their was a soap residue build up? Again...haven't had that issue since I used this product.

https://www.menards.com/main/grocer...leaner-128-oz/1801/p-1444453623293-c-7101.htm
 
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If you want to attempt to snake it yourself you can rent 50 and 100 foot snakes from most hardware stores for under $100.
 
cyfanatic said:
I was getting water backed up from the laundry drain and a friend suggested I use the cleaner I will link below. I followed the directions and I haven't had an issue since. It has been a few years since I have had that issue. Could be coincidence...could be the product worked? Not sure...but it only cost $10 to try...guessing maybe their was a soap residue build up? Again...haven't had that issue since I used this product.

https://www.menards.com/main/grocer...leaner-128-oz/1801/p-1444453623293-c-7101.htm
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I've used that stuff before, it's good stuff. Have to read the instructions carefully, you usually have to let it sit in the drains for several hours without running water down them if you want it to be effective so basically you'd want to pour it down before you go to bed then flush it in the morning.

The problem with drains can be anything and depending on the age of the house your internal plumbing as well as your sewer lines could be made of different materials that are more susceptible to clogging or failure. My 1st home was a mid 1950's house in Beaverdale and there was a lot of galvanized drain pipes that are notorious for clogging with buildup. Replaced one segment from the tub drain that was constantly clogging with PVC. Had another from the bathroom sink that I took a garden hose too and flushed out the clog with some high pressure water because only way to get to that pipe would have been cutting into drywall.

As mentioned before had my main line back up once and had to do video on it. In that era orangeburg was common before everything started going to PVC. Well research orangeburg and you'll see it was a product that doesn't hold up over the test of time, eventually it starts to collapse and you're stuck with an expensive sewer line replacement. Luckily from the video it looked like if there was any used on my home it was a very likely cast iron or galvanized steel pipe he was seeing so that was a sigh of relief because this backup happened the same time I had the house on the market so last thing I wanted was to replace a sewer line.
 
Couple hundred or so is what rotorooter would charge. That’s the only good option that I know of, most plumbers don’t have snakes long enough to get the job done.
 
I'd be seeing if the previous owner disclosed the issue. If you can post the video I for one would love to see it.
 
I've used Smith a few times, and have had good luck. It's usually around $100 and has never taken more than 30 minutes.

My problem seems to be with the line draining my garbage disposal. I don't know the layout of my pipes, but I have a feeling something wasn't installed to the proper grade to drain. About once every year and a half our drain from our kitchen sink backs up into the basement sink. After the 1st time it happened, we have been extremely conscious of what goes in the disposal. Fun times.
 
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