Drain cleaning in Toronto & the GTA

Roots, grease, and what actually goes down a drain

Large parts of the older city still drain through clay laterals laid in short sections, and mature street trees find the joints. Root intrusion is seasonal, it returns, and a cable cuts a channel through it rather than removing it — which is why a drain that clears every eighteen months is telling you something a second snaking will not fix. Grease is the other one, and it is not the kitchen sink that suffers but the horizontal run beyond it. Wipes sold as flushable do not break down and are the commonest cause of a main-line blockage in a house with no trees near it at all. Chemical drain cleaner is worth avoiding for a reason that is not environmental: it sits above the clog, it is still caustic when somebody opens that trap an hour later, and it does nothing whatever to roots.