When a drain emergency strikes, time is of the essence. Waiting for unreliable companies can make the situation even worse, leading to additional damage and frustration. At Drain King, we understand the urgency of drain emergencies, and we’re committed to providing fast, reliable, 24-hour service across Minneapolis. Whether it’s a clogged sink or a frozen roof drain, we’re ready to take your call anytime – day or night.
Why Choose Drain King for Your Emergency Drain Cleaning Needs?
When you’re dealing with a drain emergency, selecting the right service provider is crucial. Here’s why Drain King has become a trusted choice in Minneapolis for emergency drain cleaning:
Immediate Availability: We’re here 24/7, every single day of the year.
Skilled Technicians: Our team is highly trained, experienced, and well-equipped to handle a wide range of drain issues with accuracy and care.
Fully Prepared: We bring all the necessary tools and expertise directly to your door, so you don’t have to worry about gathering supplies or making extra trips to the store.
Trusted by Clients: Our website features testimonials and references from satisfied clients who have experienced the difference of choosing Drain King in their time of need.
Comprehensive Service Across the Minneapolis Metro Area: We proudly service the entire Minneapolis metro area, ensuring that our expertise is available to all, no matter where the emergency occurs.
When to Call Drain King: Emergency Situations We Handle
Drain issues can strike when you least expect them and knowing when to call in an expert can save you both time and stress. Here are some of the most common drain emergencies we handle:
Clogged Drains: Whether it’s your kitchen sink, bathtub, or shower, a clog can disrupt your daily routine and quickly become a nuisance. Our team can clear it fast, using effective methods to get your drains back in working order.
Burst or Frozen Pipes: Minnesota winters can be brutal, often resulting in frozen pipes that can crack or burst, causing water damage. Our team is equipped to address these issues quickly, minimizing potential damage to your property.
Frozen Roof Drains: Roof drains are essential for protecting your property from water accumulation, especially during winter. A frozen roof drain can lead to severe water pooling and ice dams. We can clear these drains to ensure proper water flow and prevent roof damage.
Backed-Up Toilets and Sinks: Few things are as disruptive as a backed-up toilet or sink. These situations often require urgent attention, and our team is ready to address them effectively.
Blocked Parking Lot Drains: For commercial properties, a blocked parking lot drain can lead to flooding, creating hazards for vehicles and pedestrians. We handle both residential and commercial drain emergencies with equal dedication, ensuring a safe environment for everyone.
No matter the issue, our team has the skills, tools, and dedication to resolve it swiftly. Call 763-786-3000 for immediate assistance or use our online 24/7 Quick Service Request Form to reach us at any hour.
Experience the Drain King Difference: Commitment, Care, and Quality Service
Emergencies can be stressful and chaotic, but with Drain King, you have a team that understands how to handle high-pressure situations with expertise and precision. When you call us, you’re choosing a company that prioritizes customer satisfaction, thorough work, and timely solutions. We’re committed to addressing your drain issue quickly and effectively, so you can go back to enjoying your home or running your business smoothly.
Our goal is to provide a high standard of care and quality, treating each drain emergency with the attention it deserves. With Drain King, you can trust that we’ll not only fix the issue at hand but also take steps to help prevent future problems.
When it comes to sewer line inspection, we keep up on all of the latest technologies. Drain King Inc can help you find your sewer problem quickly! In the past, if you had a problem with your sewer, the cause was identified and corrected through a lot of expensive, messy, guesswork and large-scale yard excavation. There was no way to tell, with any certainty, where the sewer line failure occurred. So they would have to start cutting away sections of sewer pipe to pinpoint the trouble areas. Sometimes they made good guesses and the problem was easily fixed, and other times the yard became a nightmare of trenches, tracks and mounds of dirt unearthed leaving YOU to re-sod almost everything! This approach was both inefficient and costly.
Fortunately for today’s home or business owner, sewer disruptions are now much faster, easier, and less expensive to diagnose and correct. Our Drain King professionals utilize state-of-the-art equipment that allows us to locate and inspect sewer and drain lines without having to dig up your entire yard. We use high definition cameras to give us detailed information about the condition of sewer pipes and where the obstacle (or obstacles) are located. We can map the location and depth of your sewer line to prevent accidental damage when digging for landscape or construction purposes.
Here’s how sewer line inspection works: Our high-tech miniature cameras are mounted to the end of a fiber-optic cable, which is then pushed into a sewer line. The camera is controlled by a
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certified Drain King technician, who can change its speed, direction, and angle of inspection. A digital recording is made of the camera’s progression through the sewer pipes, which shows our expert what sort of impediment is interfering with the sewer line. (SIDE NOTE: We actually retrieved a diamond wedding ring for one of our clients!) We can detect whether roots have grown into the sewer line, identify a buildup of food or kitchen grease in the pipe, identify foreign objects that have been flushed down the toilet, and check for natural deterioration of sewer and water lines. The obstacle can be removed or the sewer line can be repaired at the exact spot it is impaired, without having to dig up large areas of your yard.
Our sewer line inspection services employ similar techniques with a transmitter and a hand-held receiver. We can push a transmitter through a sewer line as narrow as 1 1/2 inches, and locate it with an above-ground receiver. This gives us the exact depth and location of your sewer pipes, as well as the direction they run. Having this information is critical in the early planning stages of landscaping or remodeling. Without knowing exactly where your sewer pipes are located, you run the risk of unintentionally damaging them or unnecessarily tunneling through your yard to find them.
Whether you’re dealing with a sewer line emergency or planning a home renovation, let the experts at Drain King locate your sewer lines efficiently and accurately with our leading-edge Sewer Line Inspection services.
Water is a unique liquid as it expands when it freezes (as in ice). Therefore, plastic or metal pipes that contain water are under tremendous pressure when this occurs in colder weather. This can cause even the best-made pipes to break or crack. Pipes that are susceptible to this are located in areas like swimming-pool supply lines, water-sprinkler lines and water-supply pipes in unheated interior areas like basements and crawl spaces, attics, garages or kitchen cabinets. Also, pipes that run against exterior walls that have little or no insulation are also vulnerable to breakage or cracking.
Even before the onset of the cold weather months, pipe freezing can be prevented by draining water from swimming-pool and water-sprinkler supply lines. Antifreeze should not be used in these lines unless directed. Antifreeze is environmentally harmful, and is dangerous to humans, pets, wildlife and landscaping. Hot- and cold-water pipes in areas with no heat should be insulated. Products such as pipe sleeve, or installing heat tape or heat cable, can be used to insulate water pipes. If on a budget, newspaper can provide some degree of insulation and protection to exposed pipes.
During the cold-weather months, allowing warm air to circulate around plumbing can help keep pipes from freezing. If exposed pipes have faucets attached, a trickle of cold water dripping from them will help prevent the pipes from freezing.
If the pipes have already frozen, thawing them is necessary. Faucets with frozen pipes should be kept open. As frozen pipes are treated, running water through the pipe will help melt any ice. Applying constant heat in the form of a heating pad wrapped around the pipe, a hair dryer or space heater, or wrapping pipes with cloths soaked in hot water will help thaw them. Careful care should be taken to avoid using open-flame devices.
Sometimes if one pipe is frozen, additional pipes may freeze, as well. Hence, all the faucets must be checked. In cases where the frozen area of the pipe is not known or not accessible, a licensed professional’s help must be sought. Call us today at Drain King if you experience any problems with frozen pipes this winter. We are your local experts and will take care of all your needs in an efficient and professional manner.
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