About twice a year, the mud and whatever overtakes my drains and its time to call in the plumber. I've found that hydrojetting works a lot better than a snake as it seems to clear the lines better. I've snaked it myself a few times but that isn't my favorite chore, if you know what I mean.
Unfortunately the hydrojetting costs $250 per time.
I just found a new product designed to clean out drains that screws onto the trigger gun of a pressure washer. Sort of like the poor man's hydrojet. I ordered one when Bay 1 started draining slowly, and I bought the version with the 100' hose that was around $150 including shipping. The hose size is similar and maybe a little smaller than 1/4 high pressure hose. Probably a little more flexible.
Today the Bay graduated from a slow drain into a small lake, so it was time to try it out. This thing works GREAT!!! The head on it has some very tiny streams of high pressure water, one forward to eat away at stuff and I think 3 tilting backward. The 3 tilting backward makes this thing crawl itself down the drain without having to push on the hose hardly at all. I would let it crawl forward on its own for about 3 feet, then pull it back, then let it go a bit farther, etc. I clearly knew when I hit the blockage because there was a familiar whoosh when the line cleared.
I was a little skeptical that this thing would work very well, as it is clearly a much smaller version of the BIG hydrojet machine the plumber has. But ..... it worked perfectly!
http://www.cloghog.com/
Unfortunately the hydrojetting costs $250 per time.
I just found a new product designed to clean out drains that screws onto the trigger gun of a pressure washer. Sort of like the poor man's hydrojet. I ordered one when Bay 1 started draining slowly, and I bought the version with the 100' hose that was around $150 including shipping. The hose size is similar and maybe a little smaller than 1/4 high pressure hose. Probably a little more flexible.
Today the Bay graduated from a slow drain into a small lake, so it was time to try it out. This thing works GREAT!!! The head on it has some very tiny streams of high pressure water, one forward to eat away at stuff and I think 3 tilting backward. The 3 tilting backward makes this thing crawl itself down the drain without having to push on the hose hardly at all. I would let it crawl forward on its own for about 3 feet, then pull it back, then let it go a bit farther, etc. I clearly knew when I hit the blockage because there was a familiar whoosh when the line cleared.
I was a little skeptical that this thing would work very well, as it is clearly a much smaller version of the BIG hydrojet machine the plumber has. But ..... it worked perfectly!
http://www.cloghog.com/
