Drain Cleaning in San Marcos, TX

Abundant Plumbing clears blocked drains in San Marcos for houses, rental property and small businesses.

Shared housing loads drains harder

A lot of San Marcos housing is rented to several unrelated adults. A kitchen line carrying the cooking of several households builds up much faster than the same pipe in a family home.

Blockages cluster around move-in and move-out. Wipes are the other common cause. They clear the toilet but do not break up in the drain, so they snag and catch everything behind them.

Drain problems we handle in San Marcos

• Kitchen lines closing up with grease
• Blocked sinks, tubs, showers and bathroom drains
• Main line blockages from wipes and other non-flushable items
• Backups affecting more than one unit in a shared building
• Blockages at tenancy changeover

Finding the cause, not just clearing the line

Where several units back up together the shared main is the problem, not one apartment. A blockage there fills into whichever fixture sits lowest, which is often not the unit that caused it.

On rental property the cause decides who pays. A sewer camera inspection records what is actually in the pipe. Debris and roots look nothing alike on camera. If it shows damage rather than debris, sewer line repair is the next step.

Call (512) 201-9978 or request a plumbing estimate. Abundant Plumbing is based in Austin and serves San Marcos.

Grease is the main problem in shared kitchens

Cooking grease goes down warm and liquid, then cools and hardens onto the pipe wall in the horizontal run. Every use after that adds food debris to it.

In a house shared by several households the kitchen line takes several times the grease it was designed around. That is the most common cause of a kitchen drain that gets slower across a semester.

San Marcos Drain Cleaning FAQ

Why do the drains in my rental clog so much?

Load. Shared houses run several independent households through one drain system. The plumbing is not faulty, it is being used harder than the original design assumed.

What is the worst thing for a kitchen drain?

Cooking grease down the sink. It goes down liquid and hardens in the pipe, then catches food debris on every use afterwards.

Are flushable wipes actually flushable?

They clear the toilet, which is all the label claims. They do not break apart in the drain the way paper does. They snag on anything rough and catch everything behind them.

Who pays for a clogged drain in a rental?

Your lease and Texas landlord-tenant law set that. A blockage caused by a fault in the pipe is a different situation from one caused by what went down it, and a camera tells them apart.

Can a drain problem in one unit affect the others?

If they share a main, yes. The blockage backs up into whichever fixture sits lowest, which is often not the unit that caused it.