We clean and camera sewer lines all over Centennial — Southglenn, Cherry Knolls and Walnut Hills, the Willow Creek and Foxridge streets, and out east through Smoky Hill and Piney Creek. Mon–Fri, published prices.
We don’t do repairs and we don’t dig. We can’t sell you a sewer line replacement, which means we have no reason to make your line sound worse than it is — and no reason to talk you out of it if it’s real.
In Centennial, which end of the city you’re in tells you what’s in the ground
Centennial is one of the youngest cities in Colorado — it only incorporated in 2001 — but the neighbourhoods inside it are not all the same age, and they are not remotely the same underneath. Before you take anybody’s word about your sewer line, work out which half of the city your house is in. It changes what’s likely, and it changes what a quote should cost.
West and north — cast iron under the house, clay out to the street
The Southglenn, Cherry Knolls, Walnut Hills and Willow Creek side of Centennial went in through the 1960s and 70s. Those houses are typically cast iron inside and vitrified clay tile from somewhere near the foundation out to the city tap.
Clay comes in short sections with a joint every few feet, and after fifty or sixty years every one of those joints is a place a root can find. That is not a broken pipe. Roots come in at the joints; they do not grow through solid pipe wall. Finding roots in a clay line on those streets tells you the line is old, which you already knew.
They get cut out mechanically and they come back. Every twelve to twenty-four months is normal under mature trees, and those neighbourhoods have plenty of them. That’s maintenance, the same as a furnace filter — not a reason to dig up a lawn.
East — Smoky Hill and Piney Creek, and why you should be sceptical of a replacement quote
The eastern half of Centennial, out past Parker Road, was built from the 1980s onward. Those lines are plastic — PVC, ABS, SDR35 — with glued or gasketed joints. No corrosion. No root path at the joint. And nowhere near old enough to have failed.
We see it in our own footage. In the Centennial lines we’ve filmed, the older western streets are the ones that come back with something written down, and the eastern ones come back clean. Not because anybody out east has been luckier — because the pipe is forty years newer and made of a material that doesn’t rust or take roots at a joint.
So if your house was built in the eighties or nineties and somebody has told you the sewer line needs replacing, get a second opinion before you agree to anything. In a house that age the problem is almost always something else — grease in the kitchen line, wipes, a blockage at one point — and the fix is a cleaning, not an excavation. We’d rather tell you that than take the job.
The clay under all of it
Whatever era your house is, it sits on the same expansive clay soil as the rest of the Front Range, and that soil swells and shrinks with the seasons. Pipe buried in it moves with it, which is why so many reports around here come back saying belly, low spot or sag.
Most of those are nothing to act on. There’s a number that decides whether a sag is a defect, and a much lower one that decides whether it even gets written down, and the gap between the two is where a great deal of unnecessary work gets sold.
How long and how deep a belly has to be before it actually matters →
Five findings on one Centennial line. One of them cost money.
A house on the older, western side of Centennial. Cast iron from the house, clay tile from fifteen feet out. It took two camera runs to see all of it — garage clean-out to the crawl space, then crawl space to the city tap, a hundred and two feet in total.
Five things went into the report. Here is what they were and what each one meant.
At sixteen feet eight: a circumferential fracture with roots coming through it. That one is real. A fracture is a break that has visibly opened, and roots had found it. The report locates it seven feet nine inches down and it was marked in the yard with green paint, so the homeowner knew exactly where it was before anybody quoted anything.
At twenty-seven feet: a longitudinal crack in the pipe bell. The report writes it down, gives it its code, and then says, in the findings table itself — No Problem.
At thirty, thirty-four and forty-two feet: roots through the joints. Normal for clay of that age. Annual cleaning, not repair.
At forty-eight feet: a second circumferential crack, no displacement. The two halves of the pipe are still where they should be. Nothing to do.
Five findings, four of which needed nothing. And the recommendation for the one that did wasn’t a replacement — it was bi-directional clean-outs, to repair the fracture and give easy access for cleaning it in future.
That is what a report should do. Not a list of alarming words with a price at the bottom, but every finding written down, each one judged, and the ones that don’t matter said out loud to be the ones that don’t matter.
If you’re holding an inspection report
A lot of people reach us in the middle of buying or selling a house in Centennial, with a report full of words nobody explained and a recommendation at the bottom that may or may not mean anything.
Call and read it to us. We’ll tell you what the words mean before you spend anything.
- What your sewer inspection report actually means — roots, scale, cast iron, footage numbers, and what genuinely does mean replacement
- Offsets — the single word that sells the most unnecessary sewer replacements in Colorado, with camera footage of a real one and of a joint that only looks like one
- What’s actually on the truck, and how far it reaches — cable sizes, the flex-shaft, and where our own equipment stops
- For realtors — turnaround, access, and what we will and won’t put in writing
We’re NASSCO certified, and we were the first company in the Denver metro area to hold the building sewer and drain inspection certification. If you need a written report and video for a lender, a title company or the other side’s agent, that’s what you get — and the footage stays yours permanently.
What we actually do
Drain and sewer cleaning, hydro-jetting, carbide flex-shaft milling for scaled cast iron, root cutting, and camera inspection. That’s the whole list. Our prices are published and everyone pays the same.
We put a camera down every line before we start and again after we finish, on every job, so you can see what was there and what changed. That’s not an extra and it isn’t a sales tool — it’s how we know the cleaning did what we said it would.
When a line genuinely does need digging up, 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 take no referral fee — the moment money changes hands for a recommendation, the recommendation is worth nothing.
A Centennial customer who had already been told she needed a new sewer line:
Our Drain and Sewer Company is amazing! We were told by another company that we needed to replace our sewer line and the cost would $20,000. Our Drain and Sewer Company sent Ronnie out and he cleaned the line with no issues. He was highly professional and made sure the job was done right. They saved us from doing unnecessary work. We can’t say enough good things about Ronnie and the team and Our Drain and Sewer Company. We will use them for all our needs in the future!
Jenna Horstman — Google review, Centennial
What it costs, before we start
Centennial is inside 470, so there’s no trip charge here. You pay the same published rate as everyone else in the metro area.
Estimates are free and our prices are published. The ones we quote most often:
- Cable clogged drains and sinks — up to 1 hour, 75 ft of cable — $175
- Maintenance mainline cleaning — up to 1 hour, 150 ft of cable — $225
- Camera inspection — NASSCO certified, report and video included — $175
- Carbide flex-shaft milling — cast iron, up to 2 hours — $475
- Roof vent, crawl space, no clean-out or toilet pull — $50
See the full price list — every service, every rate, no membership required.
Another Centennial customer, on what that works out to:
Kim fit us into the schedule, and even found a hole to move us up earlier when we explained the number of times we’d had other plumbers out.. Our Drain and Sewer diagnosed and solved the issue quickly, on the first visit! Ronnie was prompt, friendly, and helpfully explained what he was doing and why. Also, very fair pricing, much more affordable than the plumbing chains in town! Call Our Drain and Sewer when you need an Affordable Sewer and Drain Specialist in the Denver Metro Area!
Matthew Weidinger — Google review, Centennial
Booking, honestly
We’re usually booked about a week out, and by Friday most of the following week is gone. We work Monday to Friday, 8 to 5 — no nights, no weekends, no holidays. We’d rather tell you that now than take a booking we can’t keep.
Cam answers the phone and will take care od you.
Family owned and operated, and run on one rule: 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 Centennial and the Denver metro area.