Drain Cleaning in Garfield, NJ

A mile away

Garfield sits immediately west of Lodi on the Passaic River, and the city line is roughly a mile from our door. It is also the edge of Bergen County — the far bank is Passaic County, and Clifton and Passaic are directly opposite.

A mill town's housing

Garfield grew as a mill town through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its housing stock is correspondingly old and dense. Two-family and three-family houses on narrow lots are the norm across much of the city, particularly in the older sections toward the river.

This is the oldest drainage in our immediate neighbourhood, and it fails accordingly:

• Clay laterals, wide open at the joints, with roots through them. The default main line problem in Garfield.
• Heavily scaled cast iron stacks. A century of interior corrosion leaves a pipe with a fraction of its original bore. It does not block so much as it stops coping.
• Multi-family shared stacks. In a three-family, three kitchens and three bathrooms meet in one run. A blockage below that junction affects everyone, and clearing one apartment's trap achieves nothing.
• Piecemeal historic repairs. Lines patched across four generations, with transitions between clay, cast iron, Orangeburg and PVC in a single run. The transitions are where it fails.

Why we camera here more than most places

On a Garfield house, what is actually wrong with a buried line is genuinely unknown until somebody looks. Roots, a settled section holding water, a crack, and a collapse all present the same way at the fixture and cost wildly different amounts to put right. Running a camera down the line before committing to a repair is how you avoid paying to excavate a pipe that needed cleaning, or paying repeatedly to clean a pipe that has collapsed.

The river

Garfield's low ground along the Passaic takes water. As everywhere on low ground, the basement floor drain is the lowest opening and the first to show it. A floor drain that has never been cleared has no capacity in reserve when it is needed.

Call (201) 315-6655, day or night, any day of the week.