Every plumber in Houston will tell you drain calls are half the job. They’re right, and there’s a reason: this city is hard on drains. Grease, tree roots, shifting clay, and a whole lot of houses still running their original pipes. When yours backs up, call 713-955-1919 — we’ve been clearing Houston drains since 1989, and most calls get same-day service.
Drain cleaning we handle every day
If water goes down it, we clean it:
- Kitchen sinks — grease and food buildup, the number one repeat offender in any Houston kitchen.
- Bathroom sinks, tubs, and showers — hair and soap scum, usually a quick clear.
- Toilets — from a simple auger job to finding out what the kids flushed.
- Laundry and floor drains — lint, silt, and the stuff that collects where nobody looks.
- Main sewer lines — when every fixture in the house is slow at once, the problem is downstream, and that’s a different job than a sink clog.
Why Houston drains clog in the first place
Four culprits cover almost every call we run. Grease that cooled and stuck to the pipe wall. Tree roots that found a joint in the sewer line — live oaks are beautiful and merciless. Old cast iron and galvanized pipe, standard in anything built before the ’70s, rusting from the inside until the channel narrows to a trickle. And Houston’s clay soil, which swells and shrinks enough to shift lines and create low spots where waste settles.
“Flushable” wipes deserve their own sentence: they are not flushable. Ask any plumber what pays for their truck.
Snake, jetter, or camera — picking the right tool
A cable machine punches through a clog and gets your water moving — right tool for a first-time, one-fixture problem, and the cheapest fix. But if the same line keeps backing up, snaking it again is renting a solution. That’s when we recommend hydro jetting, which scrubs the pipe wall back to bare metal instead of drilling a hole through the gunk.
And when a line clogs over and over with no obvious cause, we put a camera down it before spending more of your money. Sometimes the answer is a root ball, sometimes it’s a broken section that needs repair, and you deserve to see which one it is on the screen, not take anybody’s word for it.
Same-day drain cleaning across the Houston metro
Our shop sits at Westheimer and Gessner, and our trucks run from Memorial City out to Katy, down to Sugar Land, and up through The Woodlands — the full map is on our service area page. Emergency backups get whoever’s closest, day or night, because sewage on the floor doesn’t wait for business hours.
What drain cleaning costs
Depends on the drain. A single-fixture clog with decent access is a quick, inexpensive visit. A main line full of roots is more. What doesn’t change: we look at the job, quote one number before we start, and that’s the number on the invoice. No trip-fee games, no “while we’re under here” surprises.
Drain cleaning questions Houston homeowners ask us
Can’t I just use liquid drain cleaner?
You can, but we wish you wouldn’t. The caustic stuff eats old pipes along with the clog, and it turns a cheap mechanical fix into a chemical burn hazard for whoever opens the line next — usually us.
How fast can you get here?
Most drain calls inside the metro get same-day service. Active backups jump the line.
Why does my whole house drain slowly?
When it’s every fixture, the blockage is in the main line or the vent system, not a single drain. That’s a main-line job — and worth a camera look if it’s happened before.
Will you tell me if it’s going to keep happening?
Yes, and we’d rather lose the repeat business. If your line has roots or a belly, we’ll show you the footage and the options instead of booking your next backup.
Do you clean commercial drains?
Every week — restaurant grease lines on maintenance schedules, retail, offices, and medical suites. See our commercial plumbing page or just call.
Get your drains moving today
One slow sink or a whole house backed up — call Texas Premier Plumbing at 713-955-1919. Family-owned since 1989, Master Plumber License #16188, and we answer 24/7.