Plumbing - Drain & Sewer Cleaning
Solano County, San Francisco North Bay, Ca. USA

A building's waste-disposal system has two parts: the drainage

 system and the venting system. The drainage system, also called traps and drains, comprises pipes leading from various plumbing fixtures to the building drain (indoors) and then the building sewer (outdoors). The building sewer is then connected to a municipal sanitary sewage disposal system. Where connection to a municipal sewage system is not possible, a local, private, code-approved septic system is required. Cesspools and outhouses do not meet health codes.

Drain & Sewer Cleaning companies usually come out and clean sewers lines ad drain line when they are too clogged for you to handle or it the sewer line has a tree root growing in it blocking passage of water and sewerage.  The often use a plumbers snake.

A plumber's snake, sometimes known as a "toilet jack," is a flexible auger used to remove clogs in plumbing that cannot be loosened with a plunger.

Most devices consist of a coiled metal wire with space between the coils at the end. The other end is attached to a device with a crank that rotates the wire as it moves down into the pipe. Drains are cleared by one of several mechanisms:

The auger end of the wire digs itself into the clog much like a corkscrew, allowing retrieval of the object causing the clog when the snake is pulled out. (Commonly hair, combs, small toys, cloth.)

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