Plumbing Repair

Why Is My Drain Slow? Causes and Fixes for Calgary Homes

Grease, roots or a collapsed line. Why guessing costs you twice, and when a camera earns its keep.

A slow drain is almost always one of three things: grease and soap built up over years, tree roots finding a crack in an older sewer line, or a section of pipe that has partially collapsed. They look the same from the sink and need completely different fixes.

Why guessing costs you twice

Pouring chemical cleaner or snaking the line might get things moving for a week, but if the real cause is roots or a break, the blockage just rebuilds further down. That is how people end up paying for the same drain twice.

When a camera earns its keep

For anything past a simple, obvious clog, a camera shows exactly what is happening inside the pipe, so the repair addresses the cause rather than buying a few more weeks. Then we can tell you honestly what it will take to solve it.

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