I had a secondary main line snaked a little over a month ago. Back then the plumber recommended a hydrojetting because there was likely a lot of grease buildup from the kitchen sink. Wanted about $400 to jet what he thought was a 2" line. As far as I can tell it's only connected to the kitchen sink, laundry room sink, and washing machine. The kitchen sink and laundry room sink are pretty much tied before heading where they tie into the washing machine drain. Then there's a cleanout hole that the plumber used to snake the line. As far as I can tell it's a 2" lateral line that eventually meets up with a 4" main line connected to the municipal sewer.
I'm probably getting overenthusiastic about trying to get this thing clean. I've bought five different drain treatments hoping it will A) slowly clean out the sludge and B) keep this from happening again. I've gotten both versions of Zep Drain Defense, Green Gobbler Bio-FLOW (put a couple right in the cleanout hole), Roebic K-67 granular drain/trap cleaner, and Roebic K-97 main line cleaner (still waiting to use). Still not sure how much I'm going to do this, but once a month for just one treatment per drain is what I'm planning.
At this point is it worth doing it, or will this stuff eventually clean out enough of the grease that I won't need to worry about hydrojetting? I've been using a lot of these bacterial/enzyme cleaners recently and it's hard to know if it's making a difference. I never asked the plumber to maybe use a camera. When he snaked our sewer cleanout he offered a camera check for free.
Plumbing woes: laundry cleanout plugged again
I've had this problem before and paid a plumber to clean it out. We've got a laundry room cleanout on the lower floor. It seems that the upstairs kitchen sink drain is also connected. We used to have problems with the kitchen sink filling up, but not any more. However, what I see now is that...
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I'm probably getting overenthusiastic about trying to get this thing clean. I've bought five different drain treatments hoping it will A) slowly clean out the sludge and B) keep this from happening again. I've gotten both versions of Zep Drain Defense, Green Gobbler Bio-FLOW (put a couple right in the cleanout hole), Roebic K-67 granular drain/trap cleaner, and Roebic K-97 main line cleaner (still waiting to use). Still not sure how much I'm going to do this, but once a month for just one treatment per drain is what I'm planning.
At this point is it worth doing it, or will this stuff eventually clean out enough of the grease that I won't need to worry about hydrojetting? I've been using a lot of these bacterial/enzyme cleaners recently and it's hard to know if it's making a difference. I never asked the plumber to maybe use a camera. When he snaked our sewer cleanout he offered a camera check for free.
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