Get Into the Line
The hose goes in through an existing access point: a cleanout, a manhole, a septic tank or, where there is no other way in, a pulled fixture.
Residential, commercial & municipal
High-Pressure Sewer Jetting
A jetter puts water down the line at pressure, cuts the build-up off the pipe wall and flushes it away. Where the pipe itself is sound, that is the difference between poking a hole through a blockage and getting the line back to its full diameter.
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Serving Ohio since 1960
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Our own crews and equipment
Homes, businesses and municipalities
What Jetting Actually Removes
Grease is the usual culprit in a kitchen line, and a cable does not do much about it. A snake bores a hole through the middle and leaves the rest sitting on the pipe wall, so the line closes up again. Water at pressure strips it off.
The same goes for sludge and scale in an older line, and for fine root hair that has worked in through a joint. For heavier root intrusion we would normally camera the line first, and often follow the jetting with RootX, because cutting roots without treating them just sets the clock running again.
How Sewer Jetting Works
Work the Line
The nozzle feeds up the line and water at pressure cuts the build-up away from the pipe wall, rather than boring a channel through the middle of it.
Flush It Out
The debris is carried back down to the access point and cleared. On larger scopes the Jet-Vac vacuums it up in the same visit, so it leaves the site with us.
When It Is the Right Tool
- Repeat blockages in the same line, where a cable keeps buying a few weeks
- Kitchen and restaurant lines carrying grease
- Slow drainage across a whole building rather than one fixture
- Scheduled maintenance on a line with a known history
- Sand, silt and debris in a storm line or a catch basin lead
- Municipal mains, where jetting and vacuum recovery run together
On a larger scope the work is usually done with the Jet-Vac, which jets and vacuums in one visit so the debris leaves site with us rather than settling further down the system.
What Jetting Will Not Fix
Jetting cleans a line. It does not repair one, and it is worth being clear about the difference before you spend money on it.
- A broken, collapsed or offset pipe. If the line has failed structurally, cleaning it only means it fails clean. That needs a repair, and the first step is finding out exactly what and where.
- A blockage a defect keeps causing. Where a crack, a belly or a bad joint is the reason debris keeps catching, the line will keep blocking however well it is cleaned.
- Pipe that is already fragile. On an old line in poor condition, how hard to work it is a judgment call rather than a setting, which is one of the better reasons to put a camera down first.
- A line with no way in. Jetting needs an access point. If there is not one, finding or making access is part of the job and part of the price.
If we get there and the problem turns out to be structural, we will tell you that rather than jet it and book you in again in three months.
Seeing the Result
Where it matters, we can put a camera down afterwards so you can see the pipe wall rather than take our word for it. On a recurring problem that is worth doing, because it shows whether you are dealing with build-up that keeps coming back or with something structural underneath it.
It is the same reasoning that puts a camera in before the jetting on a line nobody has looked at. Cleaning a line you have seen is a different job from cleaning one you have not.
What to Expect From Darr's
We have been clearing sewer and drain lines in this part of Ohio since 1960, with our own jetting equipment and our own crews. Jetting is rarely the whole job: it usually sits alongside an inspection, a locate or a septic service, and we run all of those ourselves.
- Residential, commercial, contractor and municipal work, from one contractor
- Jetting paired with camera inspection, locating, RootX or vacuum recovery as the job needs
- A straight answer about whether the line needs cleaning or repair
- Open 24 hours, 7 days, across 23 Ohio counties
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