Contact Drainiacs Plumbing — Drain Cleaning in Wichita, KS

Usually a failed joint in a clay tile lateral. Roots do not break into sound pipe, they follow moisture into a joint that has already opened. Clearing buys a year or two; closing the joint is what stops it.

Before buying a house in the older neighborhoods, before any lateral repair is quoted, and after a second blockage in the same line. A failed lateral is a five-figure problem that a standard home inspection does not cover.

Almost always the municipal main surcharging during the storm and relieving into the lowest opening in the system, which is your floor drain. A backwater valve on the lateral prevents it.

Sediment. Wichita water is hard, calcium settles in the bottom of the tank, and water trapped under that layer flashes to steam. Flushing annually helps considerably and most people never do it.