Mooresville, NCDrainCleaning

Century-old mill houses and twenty-year-old subdivisions

The mill village went up between 1902 and 1930, beginning with three-room, T-shaped houses for cotton mill workers. The village is listed on the National Register as a historic district. Any drain pipe that survives from those years is likely cast iron, and after a hundred years the inside is rough enough to hold whatever passes. A slow drain in one of these houses is often a pipe problem first and a clog second.

Most of the town is far younger. Curtis Pond and Cherry Grove date from the 2000s boom, and Alexander Island from the early 1990s. Their plastic drains clog from use: grease in the kitchen line, hair in the shower, wipes in the toilet. Those are quick to clear the first time. When the same drain stops again within weeks, the cause is further down, and it is worth finding.

Cable, water and a camera. No chemicals

We clear a blockage mechanically. A cable with the right head goes in at the best access point and opens the line. For grease and sludge we follow with hydro jetting, which uses water under pressure and nothing else. That matters here. The Town's FOG policy, which covers fats, oils and grease, does not allow solvents or surfactants for cleaning drain lines without written approval from the Town, so a business cannot simply pour a product down a slow drain.

At home we give the same advice for a different reason: chemical openers rarely shift a solid blockage, and they can damage older pipe. When the same line keeps blocking, a sewer camera inspection tells us why. Public Utilities, a Town department, maintains the public sewer. Everything on your property is your own pipe, and that is the pipe we clear.

Downtown, the lake side and the shops in between

For homes, we expect calls from the mill village and downtown, from subdivisions such as Curtis Pond, Cherry Grove, Winslow Bay and Byers Creek, and from The Point on the Brawley School Road peninsula, which was planned in the 1990s. Real-estate agents can book a main line cleaning ahead of a listing, and property managers get the price up front for each unit.

Race City USA is the town's brand, and over 60 race teams and racing businesses are based here. Race shops and auto repair shops appear in the Town's grease policy next to restaurants, so a blocked floor drain in a shop needs clearing by cable or water, not with a cleaner from the parts shelf. Restaurants need an outdoor interceptor pumped at least quarterly, but pumping does not clean the line between the kitchen and the interceptor. Both are commercial plumbing work we take on, after hours if that suits the business.

• Restaurant kitchen lines ahead of the interceptor
• Floor drains in race shops and auto repair shops
• Restroom and mop sink drains
• Main lines for shops and offices

Scheduling, pricing and warranty in Mooresville

Call at any hour, because we are open 24/7. You can ask for same-day service, and most bookings fall within 24 to 48 hours. A kitchen that cannot open or sewage on a shop floor counts as urgent, and our emergency plumber service covers it.

Pricing is settled before work starts. The factors are the size and length of the line, how it is reached and how heavy the blockage is. A home shower drain is a short visit. A restaurant line that needs a camera and jetting is a bigger one. We are based in Charlotte, so we tell you on the phone when we can be there, and customers say in their reviews that we arrive on time.

Drain cleaning carries no warranty, and we say so before the visit. The 1-year labor warranty is for repairs and installations, and that includes repairing a drain or sewer pipe the camera shows has failed.