SHEET 01MANCHESTER, NHDRAIN / SEWER
Old clay laterals, maple roots, ledge, and New Hampshire winters. Most backups around here have a cause you can see on a camera. We find it, show it to you, and give you a flat-rate price in writing before we touch anything.
Nights and weekends billed at the same rate as weekdays. We tell you the trip fee on the phone.
Stop running water in the house. Don't flush, don't run the washer or dishwasher. If water is near an outlet, a furnace or a water heater, stay out of it. Then call us. Dispatch answers 24 hours a day and will tell you an honest arrival time.
We're a drain and sewer shop. That's the whole job. No furnace sales, no bathroom remodels. Six things, done carefully.
Kitchen sinks, tub and shower drains, floor drains, laundry standpipes. We clear the clog and tell you why it happened.
We run a color camera down your main line and record it. You watch the monitor with us and keep the video.
High-pressure water that scours roots, grease and scale off the pipe wall. For lines where snaking only buys a few months.
Spot repairs, full replacement, and trenchless options like lining or pipe bursting where your line and lot allow it.
The pipe from your house to the street, or to your septic tank. We clear it and check the line. We don't pump tanks; we'll tell you if you need a pumper.
Sewage in the basement at 2 a.m. We clear the line first, then find out why.
Southern New Hampshire is hard on sewer pipe. These are the four causes we find most often.
A lot of the city's older housing, from West Side triple-deckers to North End colonials, still drains through vitrified clay tile with a joint every few feet. Many 1950s and '60s homes in the suburbs went in with Orangeburg, a tar-paper pipe that slowly flattens. Both fail in ways a camera shows clearly.
Sugar maples, red maples and Norway maples line a lot of Manchester streets. Their roots find the smallest gap in a clay joint and grow into a mat that catches everything you flush.
New Hampshire frost reaches deep, and the ground heaves and settles every spring. Over the years that can crack joints or leave a low spot, called a belly, where waste sits. Ledge sits just below the surface on a lot of lots, so pipes were sometimes laid shallower or bent around rock.
The one cause that isn't the house's fault. Cooking grease cools into a hard layer in cold pipes, and "flushable" wipes don't break down. Together they build plugs fast in winter.
Four steps. You leave with footage and options, not a shrug.
We come in through a cleanout if you have one, or pull a toilet if you don't. Drop cloths and shoe covers first.
A color camera head goes down the line while you watch on the monitor with us. We point out roots, cracks, offsets and grease.
If something needs digging later, our locator finds the camera head from the yard. We mark depth and position with paint so nobody digs blind.
Snake, jet, line or dig. You get each option with a flat-rate price in writing, and nothing starts until you pick one.
We price by the job, not by the hour. Here's how it works:
Financing is available on approved credit for larger repairs and replacements. Ask us for details.
For houses with a known root problem. Once a year we run the camera, clear the roots before they block the line, and send you the footage so you can see if anything is changing. Plan members get priority scheduling and a reminder before the season when roots grow fastest.
Manchester first, then the towns around it: Bedford, Goffstown, Hooksett, Londonderry, Auburn, Candia, Litchfield and Merrimack. Outside that ring? Call. We'll give you an honest arrival time or tell you who's closer.
These are sample reviews written for this demo. They are not from real customers.
“Main backed up the night before Thanksgiving. The camera showed a root ball about 40 feet out. They jetted it, left me the video, and the bill matched the quote.”
“Third company we called. The first two wanted to dig without looking. Granite State showed us the belly on the screen and gave us two options in writing.”
“Our 1962 ranch still had Orangeburg out to the street. They explained the lining option and the dig option without pushing either one.”
On main line calls and repeat backups, yes. The exception is when sewage is already on the basement floor. Then we clear the line first so the house is safe and usable, and run the camera right after. We'll tell you which plan makes sense when you call.
No. Nights, weekends and holidays are billed at the same rate as weekdays. There is a trip and diagnostic fee, and we tell you what it is on the phone before we drive over. After that, every repair is a flat-rate price you approve in writing first.
Sometimes. Trenchless lining or pipe bursting works when the pipe still holds its shape and we can reach both ends. Collapsed sections, heavy ledge or a bad belly usually mean a dig. The camera tells us which one you have, and we'll show you why.
No. We clear the line between your house and the tank and check it with a camera, but we don't pump tanks. If the problem is a full tank or a failing leach field, we'll tell you so and suggest you call a septic pumping company.