High-pressure water
Hydro jetting
Where cabling makes a channel through the problem, jetting removes the problem. A hose with a rear-facing nozzle strips the pipe wall back to bare pipe.
The nozzle fires water backwards at high pressure, which both drives the hose forward through the line and blasts everything off the wall behind it. Grease, sludge, mineral scale, sand, silt and fine root hair all come off and get flushed out at the far end. You are left with a pipe close to its original diameter rather than a hole through a blockage.
That difference shows up in how long the fix lasts. A cabled kitchen line often comes back within months because the grease layer that caused it is still sitting there. A jetted one typically goes years, because there is nothing left on the wall for the next clog to build on.
Right for
- Kitchen and restaurant grease lines
- Any drain that has blocked more than once
- Sand and silt in exterior and yard lines
- Fine root hair after a root cut
- Scale in older cast iron
When we will say no
- A camera shows a crack, break or open joint
- The line has a serious belly holding water
- Pipe too degraded to take the pressure safely
- Any case where the money is better spent on repair
We camera first on anything doubtful
Jetting a broken line is money spent on a pipe that needs repairing instead. If we have any doubt about the condition of the pipe, we put a camera down it before we quote jetting, and we will show you what we find.
Straight answers
Questions about hydro jetting
Is hydro jetting safe for older pipes?
In good cast iron and PVC, yes, and pressure is adjusted to the line rather than run flat out. In pipe that a camera shows is cracked, badly scaled through, or separated at the joints, no, and we will tell you that rather than take the job.
How much longer does jetting last than cabling?
On a grease line the difference is typically months versus years. Cabling restores flow through the blockage; jetting restores the pipe itself, so the clock starts again from a clean wall.
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