Hydro Jetting.
Deep-Clean Your Line.

What Hydro Jetting Actually Does

The difference between cabling (also called snaking) and hydro jetting is worth understanding. Cabling punches a hole through a blockage — it restores flow but leaves the pipe walls just as coated with grease, scale, or root buildup as before. That's why cabled lines clog again in weeks or months. Jetting, on the other hand, scours the entire pipe wall clean with high-pressure water. The waste and buildup get flushed downstream and out.

If cabling is like drilling a hole through a cake, jetting is like eating the cake. Pipe comes out actually clean, not just marginally open.

When Jetting Is the Right Call

• Grease-heavy kitchen lines — the classic jetting application. Grease coats pipe walls slowly; cabling barely touches it. Jetting removes it.
• Restaurants and commercial kitchens — often on recurring maintenance schedules to prevent grease traps and drain lines from ever getting bad enough to shut down service.
• Root buildup — after the roots are cut, jetting flushes the debris and cleans the pipe wall so roots have less to grip on.
• Recurring clogs — any line that keeps clogging back up after cabling. The pipe wall itself is the problem.
• Mainline buildup — long residential and municipal mainlines with years of scale.
• Pre-lining prep — every CIPP lining job starts with a clean pipe. Jetting is often how we get there.

Residential vs. Commercial Jetting

Most residential jetting jobs are one-time: a homeowner has a grease-caked kitchen line or a mainline that keeps backing up, we jet it once, and the line runs clean for years. Commercial jetting tends to be recurring — restaurants, apartment buildings, and food-service operations that generate enough grease and food waste that jetting quarterly or semi-annually is cheaper than dealing with backups.

For restaurants specifically, we can set up a service schedule that keeps you ahead of blockages, out of shutdowns, and in compliance with local grease-trap ordinances.

Is Jetting Safe for Older Pipes?

When done properly, yes. We match nozzle type and pressure to the pipe material. Cast iron and vitrified clay handle standard pressures without issue. Old Orangeburg — a fiber-based material that softens with age — gets a lighter touch. If a camera inspection shows the pipe is too compromised for safe jetting, we tell you and recommend a different approach.

Camera Before, Camera After

For any significant jetting job we recommend a sewer camera inspection before and after. Before, so we know what we're cleaning and can confirm jetting is safe. After, so you can see the result — a pipe wall you can read the manufacturer's stamp off of, if the material's old enough to have one.

Related Services

• Drain Cleaning — the everyday cabling service. Jetting is the deeper cousin.
• Sewer Camera Inspection — recommended before and after any significant jetting.
• Trenchless Pipe Lining — if the camera shows the pipe needs more than cleaning.