Drain cleaning in Mt. Juliet

A clog that is cleared and returns in a few weeks is almost always sitting on something: a rough joint, a sag, a patch of grease coating the pipe wall. Clearing it again does nothing for the underlying problem. Finding the cause, and fixing it when we can, is what stops the cycle.

In a newer neighborhood the main lines are PVC and usually in good shape. The things that go wrong tend to be human. A wipe is flushed, a kitchen sink swallows too much grease, a child drops something into a tub drain. Some of it is a sag where fill settled after construction, which holds water and collects paper.

Bathroom sinks and tubs usually have a mechanism in the drain, a pop-up stopper or a lever that closes a plug. Hair and soap wrap around those parts and hold onto everything else. Pulling the stopper and cleaning it often fixes a slow sink without any tools beyond a screwdriver and a small brush.

In a tub, the same thing happens at the overflow and at the drain strainer. A cheap strainer that catches hair before it goes down the pipe is the best investment in a bathroom. If the drain is slow even after you clean what you can see, the clog is deeper, and we can clear it.