DRAIN CLEANING
Drain Cleaning
When every drain in the house is running slow at once, the problem is usually the line or the tank, not the sink.
Why the whole house drains slow at once
One slow drain is almost always local to that fixture: hair in a bathroom sink, grease in a kitchen line. When the tub, the toilets, and every sink in the house all start draining slowly within the same week, that points somewhere else entirely: the main line running out to the tank, or the tank itself sitting full and backing pressure up into the house. Running a cable or an auger through a single fixture trap does nothing for that kind of blockage, because the fixture was never the problem. The line has to be cleared at the point it is actually restricted, and that is usually further out than a homeowner's own snake can reach.
Clearing the line without guessing where
The tank gets checked before the line does, because a tank that is simply due for pumping will cause every symptom of a blocked line without any blockage existing at all, and clearing a line into a tank that is already full only buys a few days before the same slow drains come back. Once the tank is confirmed clear, the line is cleaned out along its actual run rather than just at the cleanout closest to the house, since grease, paper buildup, and root intrusion further down the line will keep causing the same backup if only the first few feet get cleared.
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What causes a coast line to back up in the first place
Grease that sets hard inside the pipe, paper and wipes that build up in layers rather than break down, and roots that find their way in through a joint are the three most common causes of a blocked house line. On the coast there is a fourth: a high water table. After heavy rain the ground around the tank and the field line can saturate faster than it drains, and a system that is already working near its limit backs up sooner than it would on higher, drier ground further inland.
Drain cleaning fixes a blocked line. It will not fix a field line that has failed or a tank that genuinely needs pumping, and running a cable through a system with either of those problems just delays the real fix by a few days. If the same backup keeps coming back after the line has been cleared, that is usually the sign the tank or the field line needs its own look, not another pass with the machine.