Drain cleaning and sewer repair in Lawncrest, Philadelphia
Kitchen sink, tub or basement drain backing up again? We clear clogged drains and main sewer lines in Lawncrest, then camera the line when a clog keeps coming back, so you fix the cause instead of the symptom.
- Branch drains and the main cleared with the right cable or jet
- Camera footage shared so owners and landlords can see the line
Who clears drains and sewers in Lawncrest?
Lawncrest owners and landlords can reach us for clogged drains and main sewer backups at any hour. We clear the line, then tell you what caused it: grease and wipes in a kitchen line, hair in a tub drain, or roots and broken pipe in the sewer. When a line keeps blocking, we camera it so the next step rests on what is actually down there.
Lawncrest is in the Lower Northeast, with Rising Sun Avenue running through it, a short drive south of our Huntingdon Pike office.
In a neighborhood with both owners and renters, drain calls come from two directions: the person who lives in the house and the landlord who hears about a backup secondhand. The second case is harder, because nobody saw what went down the drain. We clear the line, pull out what we can of the blockage so you can see it, and when the same drain fails twice we recommend a look with the camera rather than another round of cabling.
A neighborhood with more renters than it once had
Pew found that the Lower Northeast, the part of the city that includes Lawncrest, shifted from buyers toward renters between 2000 and 2012. More rental units means more drains used by people who did not install them and may not know what they can take. Grease poured down a kitchen sink, wipes flushed in a bathroom, a slow tub ignored for months: all of it ends up in the branch lines and the main.
About 60 percent of Philadelphia runs on combined sewers, and here the lateral from the house to the street belongs to the property owner. For a landlord, that puts a broken lateral on the owner's list no matter who lives in the house.
Plumbing jobs we handle in Lawncrest
These are the drain and sewer jobs that Lawncrest homes, owner-occupied and rented, keep us busy with.
Drain Cleaning
Kitchen lines packed with grease and tub drains matted with hair are the most familiar calls of all.
Main Sewer Line Cleaning
When every basement drain backs up together, the blockage is in the main and needs a larger cable.
Hydro Jetting
Grease that coats the whole pipe wall comes back after cabling, and jetting scours it out to bare pipe.
Sewer Camera Inspection
A second backup in a short span is the signal to look inside the line before cleaning it again.
Rental Property Plumbing
Landlords between tenants want drains, traps, toilets and the water heater checked before the next lease starts.
Sewer Line Replacement
A lateral that has collapsed or separated at several joints needs a new run from the house to the main.
They can make an existing weakness worse. Wipes and grease catch on roots or a broken joint and build a blockage much faster. They rarely break sound pipe on their own, which is why a camera inspection matters when backups repeat.
Jetting is safe for pipe in sound condition, and we camera the line first when there is any doubt. Badly corroded cast iron or a cracked clay section can be damaged by high pressure, so there we clear the line with a cable and plan a repair instead.
Yes. We tell you what we found, where it was and what we did, and we share camera footage whenever we ran one. Our rental property plumbing work is set up with owners who are not on site in mind.
Wipe grease out of pans into the trash before washing, use a sink strainer and keep fibrous scraps out of the disposal. Hot water does not carry grease far before it cools and sticks. If the sink is already slow, a cleaning now beats a backup later.
Lawncrest drain backed up tonight?
Tell us which drains are affected and we will tell you what to stop using until we arrive. The line is staffed around the clock.