Kitchen Drain Cleaning across Vaughan

Why kitchen drains are their own problem

Bathroom clogs are mostly hair and tend to sit near the fixture. Kitchen clogs are different. Warm fat flows past the trap and cools a few metres along, often where the branch drops inside the wall or runs flat under the basement ceiling. That is where we usually find the blockage: well past anything a store plunger can reach.

Houses where the kitchen sits on an island make it worse. The drain runs a long horizontal stretch under the floor with less slope, and grease settles along it.

What we do at the sink

• Remove and clean the P-trap and the disposal outlet, checking the disposal's own discharge for packed peels.
• Feed a cable from the trap arm into the wall, working past the first fitting and on toward the stack.
• If the cable comes back with grey paste rather than food, the line is coated. We discuss a jetting pass.
• Reassemble with new slip washers where the old ones are flattened, then run both basins full and release them together.

Keeping it open afterwards

Wipe pans with a paper towel ahead of the dishwater. Scrape plates into the organics bin rather than the disposal. Let hot water run for thirty seconds after the dishwasher finishes so its greasy discharge does not cool in the trap. Our note on grease and kitchen drains goes into more detail, including which foods are hardest on a disposal.

When the problem is the vent

Sometimes a kitchen sink drains slowly with no clog at all. Island sinks rely on an mechanical air admittance valve or a loop vent, and when that valve sticks shut the water glugs and crawls. We test the vent while we are there so you are not paying for a cable job that was never needed.

If your disposal hums but will not turn, or the dishwasher is leaving water in the tub, mention it on the call; both tie into the same drain.