Sewer Services from Greenstar Home Services/Rescue Rooter

Sewer Services in Orange, CA

One of the most common and frustrating plumbing issues that can arise in your home is a clogged sewer line or water main. Often associated with digging up old pipes and replacing them, there are newer technologies like trenchless pipe repair and ways of cleaning and clearing older systems that can options in some cases as well.

Some of the first signs of sewer line blockage are gurgling sounds coming from your drains, use of one fixture causing water to come up from the drain of another fixture, and multiple drains appearing to clog at the same time.However big the problem or its cause, Greenstar Home Services/Rescue Rooter can help take care of your sewer and water line issues.

What causes sewer line blockage?

One of the most common causes of a clogged sewer line is the infiltration of tree roots into the pipes that carry your water away. Tree roots seek moisture, and unfortunately our home’s pipes are a great source. Ridding sewer lines of tree roots is where get the common plumbing term “rooter.”

Other potential causes include:

• Flushed debris or non-flushable items (like toys) building up or clogging the line
• Your sewers pipes sagging across a cavity in the ground under the pipe
• Eventual erosion of old pipes, allowing dirt or other debris into the pipe
• Damage from other outside forces like fallen limbs or even occasionally landscaping

Minerals naturally found in tap water in some areas can also cause pipe erosion or build up within the pipes over time. This is somewhat more common in water mains.

Sewer line video inspections

The best way to find out the cause of what is clogging your sewer line is to look and see through the use of piper optic video cameras. Greenstar Home Services/Rescue Rooter will snake such a video camera inside your pipes so that you can see in real time what the cause of the issue may be. What is causing the block often determine how to fix it.

How do you fix a clogged sewer line?

How to unclog a sewer line can depend on many factors, including the cause of the obstruction, the age of the pipes, and what the best long-term solution may be in your particular case. Sometimes, like in the case of debris or toys flushed into the pipe, the obstruction can merely be removed.

Other times, a section of pipe may need to be removed in the case of damage to the pipes. Old or eroded systems may benefit from being replaced. In this case, an increasingly common method of repair is called trenchless pipe repair. Instead of digging in your yard and ripping up old pipe to be replaced with newer pipes, your plumber can run new pipe within the old pipe lines, functionally replacing them.

Locating the problem is the first step to fixing it. No matter what is causing your sewer line backup, we can find it and we can fix it. Call Greenstar Home Services/Rescue Rootere to schedule today!