Sewer line descaling

  If you have a home built before 1980, there’s a good chance you have older cast iron sewer pipes that may have scale, metal and debris buildup clogging your sewer lines and causing damages to the pipe.

The good news is a complete sewer line replacement may not be necessary. Often, we can employ our pipe descaling method before a costly replacement of those old cast iron pipes. For older houses, descaling is important to help stop blockages and save homeowners from having to replace the entire sewer line.

   When hydro jetting alone can’t be used to clean pipes due to scale buildup or deteriorating pipes, we use sewer descaling to remove corrosion, scale, and metal deposits on your cast iron pipes. This process helps avoid future clogs and extends the life of your existing pipes, saving you lots of money. 

Many Sewer and Drain cleaning companies will use a more traditional method to try and clean cast iron pipes with blades or cable attached to a drain snake. This method is ok for clearing a clog, but it doesn’t descale the inner walls of your pipe and help to prevent future clogs.

Depending on the severity of the pipes and accumulation of scale, we employ hydro jetting or a newer technology using high powered spinning brushes, grinding chains, special drill heads and cutters from Picote, which is much safer and more effective to descale sewer pipes.