We clean and restore drain and sewer lines throughout Lakewood — Belmar, Green Mountain, Glennon Heights, Eiber and the older streets either side of Colfax. Our technicians are in Lakewood most weeks of the year, and we’ve put a camera down enough of its sewer lines to know what usually turns up before we open the clean-out.
Before you replace that sewer line, let us show you what’s wrong
A line packed with roots and scale looks alarming on a camera. So does a line that has genuinely failed. They are not the same thing, and they do not cost the same to fix.
We put a camera down the line before we touch it, and again after we have cleaned it. You watch the same footage we do.
We don’t do repairs
There’s a saying in our trade: if you do maintenance and repair, you cannot stay honest. We took it seriously. We only do maintenance — cleaning, jetting, milling out scale, cutting roots and camera inspection. We don’t replace sewer lines and we don’t dig.
So when we tell you your line doesn’t need replacing, we aren’t turning down work. We never had it to sell. And you don’t have to take our word for it either way — you see the camera footage before and after, and you keep it.
If it really does need replacing, we’ll show you why on camera and point you to R.C Pipeline (303-597-8396), who do underground sewer repair and replacement. BBB accredited, A+ rated. We don’t take a referral fee.
What’s usually under a Lakewood house
Cast iron out to clay, and not much in between. Lakewood lines tend to be original. Where other neighbourhoods show a patchwork of plastic repairs, here it’s usually cast iron from the house until it hands off to clay somewhere out in the yard. Older pipe, but pipe that nobody has made a mess of.
Getting to the line is half the job. More than a third of the Lakewood work we do starts somewhere other than a basement clean-out — an outside clean-out under a patio, a garage, a crawl space entrance, or the roof vent. Awkward access is where a lot of companies either price it as a mystery or decline the call.
We don’t. Roof vent, crawl space, no clean-out, or pulling and resetting a toilet is a flat $50 on top of the job. It’s on our price list, and it’s the same $50 whether it’s easy for us or not.
The runs are long. Eighty to a hundred feet is ordinary in Lakewood, and we’ve cleared blockages past two hundred feet. A company carrying seventy-five feet of cable won’t reach it — and may tell you the line is beyond cleaning when the truth is they simply stopped short of the problem.
Roots come in at the clay joints, and cast iron scales. Both are normal for pipe of that age and neither means the line has failed. Carbide flex-shaft milling takes scale back to bare pipe and root cutting clears the joints, at a fraction of what a replacement costs.
Every job gets a camera. Before and after.
We’re NASSCO certified, so the inspection comes with a written report and video you keep. That matters in Lakewood, where a good share of our calls come from people mid-sale holding an inspector’s report that recommends a replacement. A proper report showing a clean line has settled more than one of those.
White Tarp Service
We cover your carpet and stairs with clean white canvas tarps before we start. No dirty footprints, no greasy equipment marks, no sewage tracked through your house. We have found it is much better to cover up than clean up.
What it costs, before we start
Estimates are free and our prices are published. The ones we quote most often in Lakewood:
- Cable clogged drains and sinks — up to 1 hour, 75 ft of cable — $175
- Maintenance mainline cleaning — up to 1 hour, 125 ft of cable — $225
- Camera inspection — NASSCO certified, report and video included — $175
- Roof vent, crawl space, no clean-out or toilet pull — $50
See the full price list — every service, every rate, no membership required.
What our customers say
Had a clogged kitchen drain. Took two tries to unclog the drain. But they got it done and drains well. Very honest with no up sell. And that’s what I look for in a professional plumber. Thanks again Mark.Al Gideon — Google review, Lakewood
One rule
Our Drain and Sewer Company is family owned and operated, and we run it on exactly one rule for customer service: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s why we’ll tell you when you don’t need the work.
Mon–Fri 8:00am–5:00pm. Free estimates across Lakewood and the Denver metro area.