Water Rising in the Basement Floor Drain
The basement floor drain sits lowest in the house, so a blocked main line pushes water up there before anywhere else. If it appears when the washer drains or a toilet flushes, the main line needs attention.
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Drain Cleaning in Grand Rapids
Drain cleaning in Grand Rapids works best when the method fits the pipe, because many neighborhoods here were built from the 1940s through the early 1970s and still drain through the pipe they were built with. Orangeburg is a bituminous fiber pipe, made of wood pulp bonded with pitch, that was laid in a lot of postwar housing. In Grand Rapids those lines are now old enough to soften, flatten and in some cases collapse. Forcing a cutting head through a deformed Orangeburg section can make it worse, so we find out what the line is made of before we choose a tool.
Grease is the most common thing we pull out of kitchen lines in the city. The City of Grand Rapids Environmental Services Department warns that cooking oil, kitchen grease and meat fat poured down a drain collect inside pipes and lead to sewer backups and basement flooding, and it tells residents to cool grease and throw it away in a sealed container (City of Grand Rapids environmental tips). Old branch lines that are rough inside hold onto that grease faster than new pipe does.
We at Clog Busters run our West Michigan crews from the Grand Rapids branch at 584 44th Street SE. We clear drains for homeowners in Grand Rapids and nearby Wyoming, Kentwood, Walker and Grandville. Read how our drain cleaning service works, when we use hydro jetting, or what else the Clog Busters Grand Rapids branch handles.
Work is performed to the plumbing rules adopted by the State of Michigan: the 2021 Michigan Plumbing Code, effective March 12, 2024, and the 2015 Michigan Residential Code for one and two family homes.
