Drain Cleaning services in Dallas
Drain Cleaning in Dallas can mean a $200 fix or a $4,000 job depending on what's actually wrong. We figure it out before quoting. What you get with us: licensed work, upfront pricing, a tech who can read what's wrong before opening up a wall.
How Dallas jobs differ
Our techs know the Dallas area: housing stock, soil, water main configurations, the parts that usually fail first.
That said, newer construction in Dallas has its own set of typical issues. We see both.
What you're paying for
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.
Cost range
For drain cleaning jobs in the Dallas area:
- Kitchen sink cable: $135 – $315
- Toilet auger: $165 – $240
- Main sewer line cable: $220 – $495
- Hydro-jet + video camera inspection: $440 – $875
- Camera-only inspection: $165 – $260
A recent drain cleaning call
Got a call last month from a the historic core Dallas home — 1980s build. Symptom: sewage backing into the basement drain after rain. Cause: clay tile lateral cracked at 42 feet, root mass invading. Hydro-jet + chemical root treatment, scheduled trenchless burst, all done in about two hours, billed flat-rate at $202.