Drain Cleaning services in Chicago
Most Chicago drain cleaning jobs we see fall into 3 or 4 categories — common stuff, common fixes. Less of a mystery than the marketing makes it seem. What you get with us: licensed work, upfront pricing, a tech who can read what's wrong before opening up a wall.
Scope of work
Drain cleaning sits between simple kitchen-sink clogs and full sewer-line replacements. We do everything in between: tub drains, laundry standpipes, kitchen sinks, toilets, and main lines.
First call is always cable (also called snaking). For most kitchen and bath blockages, a cable hits the obstruction and clears it. Cost: $145 to $340 depending on access.
If the cable doesn't clear it — common with grease accumulation in older kitchen lines, or root invasion in main sewer lines — the next step is hydro-jetting at 4,000 PSI. That actually scours the pipe rather than punching a hole through the clog. Cost: $480 to $950, often with a camera inspection thrown in.
The camera tells you whether you have a recurring problem (cracked tile, belly in the line, foreign object) versus a one-off clog. It's worth doing on a third call to the same drain — that's when something structural is usually behind the clog.
Drain Cleaning in Chicago — what's typical here
Around here, the most common calls we run come from older homes near the city center and newer subdivisions on the fringe — different problems, same crews.
If you're calling from a property management company, we have separate scheduling and billing for that.
One we ran last year
Last spring we got a call from a homeowner near the east Chicago. Slow kitchen drain that kept clogging every six weeks. Diagnosis: 15 years of grease + calcium buildup in a 1960s galvanized line. We hydro-jetted the line and recommended yearly maintenance, ran the test, and were out the door in in one trip. Total: $2275 including parts.
Pricing
Kitchen sink cable runs $180 – $425. Toilet auger runs $225 – $325. Main sewer line cable runs $300 – $675. Hydro-jet + video camera inspection runs $600 – $1,190. Camera-only inspection runs $225 – $350.