Bathroom sinks, tubs and showers
Soap film and hair gather in bathroom drains until the water slows to a trickle. The plumber you hire clears the blockage so the sink, tub or shower empties again.
Drain Cleaning in San Jose
A tub that fills with gray water, a sink that takes minutes to empty or a gurgle from the main line each mean something is blocking the pipe. Call, name the drains involved and the plumber you hire clears the line.
Bathroom, kitchen, laundry and floor drains are all covered, and so is the main line leaving the house. Further down, you can read who looks after the pipe once it passes your wall.
Drains we clear
Kitchen drains
Grease and food scraps can narrow a kitchen drain until the sink holds water. Tell us whether the dishwasher side or the disposal side is backing up and the plumber works from there.
The main line
Backups showing in a shower, a toilet and a sink on the same day point toward the main line rather than any one fixture. Give us the whole list when you phone.
Laundry and floor drains
Washing machine water that spills over the standpipe, or a floor drain that never quite empties, means the blockage lies below the fixture. Call with what the fixture is doing and where the water is backing up.
What to tell us on the call
Say which drains are slow, how long the problem has gone on and whether water comes up in a different fixture when you run one. That gives the plumber you hire a clear idea of where the blockage sits.
When the clog is in the pipe to the street
The City of San Jose says property owners are responsible for maintaining adequate sewage flow to and through their sewage pipe to the sewer main in the street. The City’s Department of Transportation staff can check the main sewer line.
If the City decides a blockage is in the property owner’s lateral, the owner is responsible for calling a plumber to clear the line.
See the sewer line page and the fixture page, or return to the homepage.
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