We’ve been clearing Denver sewer lines for over 28 years, and our technicians live right here in the metro. When you call, we’re not driving down from somewhere else — we’re already close.
Before You Replace That Sewer Line, Let Us Show You What’s Wrong
Here’s what we see all the time in Denver.
A homeowner gets a sewer inspection during a home sale. Someone tells them the line is shot and needs replacing. The number comes back at fifteen, twenty thousand dollars. The sale is on the clock and the pressure is on to just say yes.
Sometimes that’s true. Most of the time it isn’t.
If your mainline has EXTREME BUILDUP or MASSIVE ROOT INTRUSION, that is not the same thing as a collapsed pipe. We can clean that line and restore it like NEW — and we’ll put a camera down it first so you can see exactly what you’re dealing with before you spend a dollar.
Then we inspect our own work when we’re done, so you’ll pass your re-inspection.
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.
Denver Homes Have Denver Problems
Much of Denver was built before 1980, which means cast iron and clay drain lines under a lot of these houses.
Cast iron corrodes from the inside. Rust scale builds up on the pipe wall and narrows it year after year. You’ll notice it as slow drains all over the house — not one fixture, all of them. Snaking punches a hole through it and it closes back up in a few months. Carbide flex-shaft milling actually strips the scale off the wall and gives you the pipe’s original diameter back.
Clay lines have joints, and Denver has old trees. Roots follow water. They find the joint, they get in, and they catch everything that comes down the line after them. Chemical drain cleaner will not touch a root mass. Cutting heads will.
And the mature neighborhoods are the worst for it — the bigger the tree, the further the roots travel. If your house is older and your drains have been getting slower, that’s not bad luck. That’s a pipe telling you something, and a camera will show you which of the above it is.
Denver is also not a standard city for line length. In most of the metro the sewer runs from the house out to the street. In the older Denver neighborhoods — the Federal and 36th Avenue area especially — it doesn’t. It goes out the back of the house and down the alley. Fifty to a hundred fifty feet is the normal range here, and some of those blocks run longer still.
The longest Denver line we have measured on a signed report is a hundred and five feet eight inches. Another was ninety-two feet of horizontal pipe reached from a roof vent, because a roof vent was the only access that house had. A company carrying seventy-five feet of 3/8-inch kitchen cable will not reach the blockage on a line like that, and may tell you the line is beyond cleaning when the truth is they simply stopped short.
What’s Actually on the Truck and how far it reaches →
Six findings on one Park Hill line. One of them mattered.
Here’s the sentence we write on a lot of reports: eighty percent of sewers have minor defects and function exactly as intended. The job isn’t finding defects. Anyone can find defects. The job is telling you which ones are going to cost you money.
So here is a real one. A Park Hill house, eighty-one feet from the basement to the city tap — cast iron out of the house, clay tile the rest of the way. Textbook Denver.
What the camera found, and what we told them about each of it:
- Two bellies, at twelve to fifteen feet and eighteen to twenty-two feet, holding about half an inch of water. Not impeding flow, not catching waste. Leave them alone.
- Roots through the joints, the whole length of the clay. Typical of clay pipe — that’s how roots get in. Clean it annually and it runs fine.
- A circumferential crack at forty-five feet eight inches. On the surface of the pipe. No separation. Nothing to do.
- A circumferential fracture at seventy-six feet ten inches, and a hole in the bottom of the pipe at seventy-eight feet eight. That one is real.
Five of those six findings needed nothing but a cleaning schedule. The sixth needed a hole in the ground.
So the report recommended a spot repair from seventy-six to seventy-nine feet, and we located the hole for them at nine feet deep so whoever dug it would know exactly where to put the excavator. Three feet of an eighty-one-foot line.
Now picture the same line described by somebody who sells sewer replacements. Bellies. Root intrusion throughout. Cracked. Fractured. Holed through. Every word of that is true, and it adds up to a quote for the whole eighty-one feet.
That’s the difference a number makes, and it’s why every finding in our reports carries a footage and a percentage. What the words in your report actually mean →
Every job gets a camera. Before and after.
We put a camera down the line before we start, and you watch the same footage we do. Then we do it again after the work is done.
That’s not a sales gimmick — it’s how we avoid arguments and how you avoid paying for work you didn’t need. We’ve told plenty of customers their line was fine and we weren’t going to charge them to clean it.
Our inspections are NASSCO certified, which matters if you’re buying or selling — the report and video are the documentation lenders and title companies ask for.
White Tarp Service
We lay white tarps over your floors before we bring equipment into your house.
It sounds like a small thing. It isn’t. This is drain work — we are dragging cable and hose across your home. You should get your house back the way we found it, and the white tarp is how you know we mean it before we’ve done a thing.
What It Costs, Before We Start
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Clogged drains and sinks — up to 1 hour, 75 ft of cable | $175 |
| NASSCO camera inspection — report and video included | $175 |
| Camera with locate | $145 |
| Mainline cleaning — annual maintenance, up to 1 hour, 150 ft of cable | $225 |
| Hydro-jetting — up to 2 hours, up to 500 ft hose | $475 |
| Carbide flex-shaft milling — cast iron, up to 2 hours | $475 |
| Service charge — up to 1/2 hour | $125 |
These are our prices. You’ll know what a job costs before we start, and if it turns out you need less than you called about, we’ll tell you that too.
Estimates are free. We can often give you a number over the phone if you describe what your drains are doing.
What Denver Customers Say
“Our Drain & Sewer came to my rescue and cleared my main sewage line after I had been told by another company the line needed to be replaced. I am very pleased with the attentiveness of Ronnie the tech who came out and explained/showed me everything he was doing to fix my problem. Highly recommend their affordable services!”
Jenny Lang — Google review
“Have worked with Cam and Mark and Ronnie at Our Drain and Sewer for the past few years and I can always count on them to be prompt, thorough and honest. Ronnie, in particular, works really hard to thoroughly clean any line and does a great job doing what is often pretty thankless work. Thanks to the entire team for being there and always going the extra mile!”
Dale Becker — Google review
Call Us (720) 435-7315
Family owned and operated. We run our business on one rule — the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s it. That’s the whole policy.
Serving Denver and the surrounding metro: Aurora, Lakewood, Westminster, Thornton, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, Englewood, Littleton, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Broomfield and Brighton.