Sewer and Drain Cleaning

When Rex King Jr. bought a septic-pumping and drain-cleaning outfit (renamed King’s Sanitary Service), the acquisition included a waterjetting truck with a...

Over the course of eight years running her own business and aided by advice from colleagues, Linda Hudek has developed an array...

No vehicles, no heavy equipment, yet the job was cleaning 10,000 feet of 27- to 30-inch sewer main. The site was the Four...

When Midway Plumbing, based in Abilene, Texas, was featured in the October 2010 issue of Cleaner magazine, owner David Ratliff said the...

“Gen-Eye camera systems easily and accurately spot trouble in sewer lines — diapers, cellphones, toys — you name it,” James Capelli says. “But a...

In this video profile, Ken Beyer and Mike Phillips, co-owners of Clog Squad in Holland, Michigan, head to Hope College during the...

Wayne Norman started his company four decades ago in Richmond, Virginia, as a plumbing and drain-cleaning operation. Today, Capital City Services’ offerings...

Great Lakes TV Seal of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is always looking at how it can create a niche to stay ahead of...

Only one employee of Kyle Baxter’s current 16-plus roster for his drain cleaning company grew up outside its rural Midwest headquarters of...

General Pipe Cleaners Power-Vee drain cleaner with automatic feed makes clearing small drainlines faster and easier. The simplified feeding system is like...

For maximum versatility and productivity, it’s tough to beat the 2010 Camel 1200 combination vac truck/hydroexcavator made by Super Products LLC, says...

A typical drain service call for Parsons Plumbing, Heating & Cooling doesn’t last more than an hour. So when owner Doyle Parsons...

Every year, heedless jetter operators are needlessly exposed to serious injuries — even death — and make their employers vulnerable to negligence...

When first profiled in Cleaner magazine in 2009, Kathy and Duncan St. Croix’s Syracuse, New York, firm was known as Drainman Jet-O-Rooter....

There was a time when Marc Carestia, the co-owner of MAC Plumbing in Naples, Florida, spent hours and hours a week driving...

Additive helps keep business drainline clear Problem: In May 2015, the manager of Bode Central healthy shake bar in Howard, Wisconsin, sought a...

Kids do the darndest things — like stuff pea gravel into new underground conduit for residential outside lighting.That’s what Bob Shumway, owner...