Drain & Sewer Cleaning in Laureldale, PA

Laureldale is a small, compact borough north of Reading, and it is one of the communities we serve most often around Reading. The borough has established residential neighborhoods with homes that have been there for generations, and that means the drain and sewer lines under those homes have been there just as long. The calls we get from Laureldale are usually straightforward, a kitchen line that will not drain, a bathroom sink that has slowed to a trickle, or a main line that has backed up into the basement.

What we do not usually see in Laureldale is the heavy commercial drain volume of a place like Route 61 in Muhlenberg. This is a residential borough, and the work here is mostly household. But the pipes are old, the trees on the streets are mature, and the main sewer laterals running to the street are the same clay and cast iron that give every older neighborhood in the Reading area the same set of problems. We know what to expect, and we carry the tools to handle it.

In Laureldale the phone usually rings about a kitchen sink. Grease from cooking cools and sticks to the pipe walls, food scraps and garbage disposal waste collect in the trap and branch line, and eventually the drain slows or stops. We cable the line to break up or pull out the clog, and if grease is the cause and it keeps coming back, we hydro jet the branch to scour the walls clean. A jetted kitchen line drains noticeably better than a cabled one because the pipe is actually clean, not just cleared enough to pass water.

Bathroom drains are the other common call, hair and soap combining into a dense mass that slows the sink or tub. Floor drains and laundry drains clog from lint and sediment. Every one of these is the kind of residential clog we handle every day, and none of them surprises us.

When more than one fixture backs up at the same time in a Laureldale home, the clog is usually in the main sewer line from the house to the street. The main line is where everything collects, and in older neighborhoods it is also where roots, scale and debris accumulate. We cable or hydro jet the main line to the clog, break it up, and restore flow. Then we run a camera down to show you whether the blockage was a simple clog or a sign of something deeper, like root intrusion, a sagging belly, or a cracked section of pipe.

• The same kitchen or bath drain clogs repeatedly after snaking
• Water backs up in the basement floor drain or lowest tub
• Several fixtures in the home are slow at the same time
• A gurgling sound comes from drains across the house
• You want to see what is in the line before you decide on a repair