Drains, sewers and backups
Kitchen sink grease clogs
Kitchen sinks backed up with grease, rice and coffee grounds cleared through the trap arm and branch line, with the P-trap rebuilt if it leaks.
- Phone answered every hour, holidays included
- Fault found and explained before anything is cut
- Branch line cabled with a cutting head
- Flow-tested in front of you when finished
Call now(365) 517-7215. A plumber picks up, day or night.
- Open 24/7. Phone answered every hour, holidays too.
- Licensed & insured. Trade licence details given on request.
- Shown before cut. You see the fault and the plan first.
- Gas by gas techs. Licensed gas technicians on gas heaters.
Kitchen clogs build slowly. Warm grease pours away thin and runny, then stiffens in the cooler branch line and lines the pipe wall. Rice, pasta and coffee grounds glue themselves to that coating until the passage shrinks to roughly a straw’s width.
Getting past the trap
- We remove the P-trap first and check it, because a surprising number of kitchen clogs live right there.
- If the trap is clear we run a cable into the trap arm and along the branch toward the stack, which in many Toronto houses runs through a wall to a basement cleanout.
Clues it is this job
- One bowl filling up while you empty its twin
- Dishwasher leaving dirty water in the bottom
- Sour smell from the sink after cooking
- Bubbling as water goes down
Grease needs scraping, not just piercing
- A small cable can open a hole through grease, and the sink drains for a week before closing up again.
- We use a cutting head sized to the pipe so the walls get scraped.
- On long kitchen runs that have been cleared before, we may suggest jetting to wash the grease out of the line entirely.
Double sinks and dishwashers
- Many kitchens have a double bowl, a dishwasher drain hose and sometimes a disposal on the same trap.
- We make sure the dishwasher hose rises in a high loop or runs through an air gap, which keeps sink water from creeping back into the machine, and that the continuous waste piece slopes the right way.
Blot greasy pans with a paper towel before they meet the sink. That single habit prevents most kitchen calls we see.
How the job runs, step by step
- 1Trap removed and inspected
- 2Branch line cabled with a cutting head
- 3Dishwasher hose and loop checked
- 4Hot water flush and leak check