Hydrojetting
Hydro jetting for grease, scale, and root-packed drain lines in Northern Utah. 32 jetting jobs in the past year, and we camera the line first.
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If the same drain clogs every few months, you do not have a clog problem. You have a pipe problem. A cable snake punches a hole through the blockage and the water runs again for a while, but the grease, scale, and root hair still coating the walls of that pipe catch the next thing that comes down it. Hydrojetting is the tool that actually cleans the pipe. From June 2025 through July 2026 our techs ran 32 hydrojetting jobs across Northern Utah.
- Hydrojet work we actually did this past year
- What hydrojetting actually is
- When jetting is the right call
- When we will tell you no
- Put down the bottle of drain cleaner
Hydrojet work we actually did this past year
A Murray sewer got a camera before it got a jetter. Past the house the line was in good shape. The problem was the cast iron underneath it, scaled up heavily and holding standing water because of it, and standing water is what takes a cast iron line out early. So we quoted a descale instead of a replacement, and we said the uncomfortable part out loud: Picote cutting is aggressive. The risk of damage is small, but if the pipe is already compromised the cleaning can find it, and we would rather tell you that before we start than after. Jetting is the right answer for a specific set of problems, not the answer we reach for on every clog.
What hydrojetting actually is
A hose goes down the line with a nozzle on the end that fires water backward at high pressure. The reverse thrust pulls the hose up the pipe while the jets scour the walls, and the debris washes back down toward the main. Where a cable bores through the middle of a blockage, jetting takes the pipe back to something close to its original inside diameter. The practical difference shows up months later. Snake a grease-lined kitchen line and you will likely see us again before the year is out. Jet it and the surface the grease was clinging to is gone.
When jetting is the right call
Kitchen lines packed with grease. Court points out a specific Utah house layout that makes this worse: when a laundry sink sits directly below the kitchen sink, kitchen fats hit the laundry soaps and congeal, and that line clogs more often than it should. Main lines with fine root hair after a cable has cut the larger roots out. Lines coated with mineral scale, which is a real problem here because Utah water runs between 8 and 29 grains of hardness across our service area. Restaurant and commercial kitchen lines, which build grease faster than any house does. And any line that has been snaked repeatedly and keeps failing.
When we will tell you no
High pressure water is not gentle, and a pipe that is already compromised can be made worse by it. We put a camera down the line first so we are looking at the pipe instead of guessing at it. We will not jet a line that is already collapsed, badly separated at the joints, or made of Orangeburg. Orangeburg is a wartime pipe built out of tar paper because metal was rationed, and it went into millions of homes. It is fragile enough that a snake can destroy it, and jetting is worse. Very old cast iron that has corroded thin gets the same caution. In those cases jetting is not the fix, and the honest conversation is about a repair or replacement instead. Telling you that up front costs us a jetting job and saves you a sewer.
Put down the bottle of drain cleaner
Stop pouring chemical drain cleaner down your drains. It is either an acid or a base, and either way it sits in the pipe, heats up, and eats at it. Maybe you get away with it on plastic. The truth is that under most Utah homes there is metal pipe. He has walked into countless houses where the copper or cast iron was completely eaten out by drain acid, and the homeowner had no idea they had done it to themselves. A clog is a physical problem inside a pipe. Diagnose the pipe. If you want a maintenance product between service calls, use an enzyme cleaner rather than an acid. We use Total-C.
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