Drain Cleaning Whittier, California | Uptown, the Hills and East Whittier

The oldest Whittier homes, many near Uptown and Whittier College, are now a hundred years old or close to it. Their laterals are often clay with short sections and many joints, and the cast iron drains inside have scaled over generations. Some have been patched with whatever was available at the time, so one lateral can have three or four materials in it. A camera inspection names each section and shows exactly where the trouble is.

The hillside neighborhoods north of Whittier Boulevard sit on steep lots below the Puente Hills. Laterals there run downhill fast, and over the decades joints can shift with soil movement. The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake and its aftershocks also shook a lot of older pipe. A small offset is enough to catch paper and solids, and the camera measures each one so you know whether jetting will keep the line working or a repair is due.

East Whittier and the south side are mostly tract homes from the 1950s and 1960s. Their clay laterals have roots from the street trees planted when the tracts were new, and their kitchen lines carry sixty years of grease. These are the most common calls we get in Whittier, and they are usually solved in one visit with a plan to keep them from coming back.

Uptown Whittier along Greenleaf Avenue and Philadelphia Street has restaurants, cafes and bars in older buildings, and the shopping centers at Whittwood and The Quad have busy kitchens of their own. Commercial lines need scheduled jetting and grease trap service, done before opening or after close.

Whittier is also a city of mature trees. Old pepper trees, oaks, sycamores and the remains of the citrus groves still grow in many yards, and their roots are strong enough to fill a clay lateral in a single season once they find a way in.