Hair Wound Into a Tub or Sink Trap
Hair and soap twist into a rope at the trap arm. A thin cable with a corkscrew head winds that rope up so it pulls out instead of sliding deeper.
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Drain Auger Service in Ankeny
A drain auger, also called a drain snake or cable machine, is a rotating steel cable fed into a drain to break up, cut through or hook a blockage and pull it back out. We at Clog Busters run augers on every drain in the house and out to the street across Ankeny from our Des Moines branch on Vandalia Road, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Ankeny’s own code tells us which cable to reach for. Chapter 95 of the Ankeny Code says the building drain inside the house hands off to the building sewer three feet outside the inner face of the building wall, and Chapter 96 has each building sewer join the public main at a Y branch or saddle Y. Inside the house, the work is a small cable through a fixture. Outside the wall, a heavier sectional cable runs from a cleanout toward that Y, where the city’s pipe begins.
A cable opens a line. It does not scour grease off the pipe wall or correct a sag, and the camera shows when either one is the real problem. Compare our drain auger service at every branch, hydro jetting in Ankeny for coated pipe, drain camera inspections in Ankeny, or the Ankeny service area page.
Iowa's plumbing code since March 26, 2025 is the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code, and our cable work in Ankeny follows it.
