Fort Collins Drain Cleaning — Clogged Drains, Hydro Jetting, and Sewer Line Service
Hard water from the Cache la Poudre and decades-old clay pipe under Old Town make Fort Collins one of the toughest cities in Northern Colorado on drain and sewer lines. Same day across the city, flat price before we start, and a real person on the phone any hour you call.
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Clogged Drain in Fort Collins? Find Your Problem Here
Pick the line that matches your situation. It tells you what you need and how fast we can be there.
Sewage backing up right now
Call immediately. We run 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with fully stocked trucks.
Call Now — (833) 338-2528Same drain clogging repeatedly
In Fort Collins that almost always points to Poudre River mineral scale or tree roots in old clay pipe. Another snake will not fix it — you need a camera and a deep clean.
Buying a home in Fort Collins
Scope the sewer before you close, especially on anything built before 1990 in Old Town or the neighborhoods around CSU.
One slow sink, tub, or shower
A same-day snake visit usually clears it in under an hour.
24 Hour Emergency Drain Cleaning in Fort Collins
A sewer backup does not wait for business hours. Sewage comes up through the tub at midnight. A floor drain backs up the morning your family arrives for the holidays. That is when you find out if your drain cleaning company is actually available or just says so.
When you call (833) 338-2528, a real member of our team answers — day or night, weekday or holiday. Our 24 hour emergency drain service rolls with fully stocked trucks so we never have to leave mid-job to get parts.
Call us immediately if you see:
- Sewage backing up into a tub, shower, or floor drain
- Waste rising from a basement floor drain
- A toilet that will not flush while other drains back up
- Sewer smell inside the house or rising from the yard
We work every night, every weekend, and every holiday including Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July.
Fort Collins Drain Cleaning and Sewer Services
Every job starts with finding what is actually wrong. Flat price before we touch anything. Smallest fix that solves it permanently.
Drain Snaking and Rooter Service
A motor-driven cable runs 75 to 100 feet into the line, cuts through hair, grease, and soft buildup, and pulls the clog out instead of just pushing a hole through it. Most visits are done in under an hour. When rooter service is not the answer is when the same drain clogs back within a few weeks — we show you on camera before recommending anything more.
$100 – $300Hydro Jetting Near You in Fort Collins
High pressure water scours the full pipe wall — flushing out grease that coats kitchen lines, hard mineral scale the Poudre leaves behind after years of use, and root debris packed into older lines. The pipe runs at full diameter again. We camera the pipe before jetting every time — old cracked clay cannot handle jetting pressure and we say so up front.
$350 – $1,400Sewer Camera Inspection
A camera stops the guessing. We run a waterproof camera down the line while you watch the monitor with us — you see the roots, the crack, the grease coating, or the low spot for yourself. A surface locator pinpoints the exact depth and location of any problem. You get the recorded video and a plain written summary to keep.
$125 – $500Main Sewer Line Cleaning
When every drain in the house backs up or slows at once, the blockage is in the main sewer line. Left alone it ends in a basement full of sewage. We camera the line first, then clear it with a heavy cable for roots and solids or jetting for grease and scale. When it clears, the camera goes back in to confirm end to end.
$150 – $500Sewer Backup Repair and Trenchless Replacement
When the camera finds a cracked, collapsed, root-wrecked, or bellied pipe, cleaning will not hold. Pipe bursting threads a new pipe through the old one. Pipe lining hardens a resin sleeve into a new wall inside the existing pipe. Both work from two small access points — lawn, driveway, and trees stay in place. When digging is genuinely the right call, we say so.
$1,500 – $15,000Kitchen Drain Cleaning
Grease, oil, coffee grounds, and food cool and solidify where the kitchen drain narrows past the trap. We clear it at the source with a cable sized for kitchen pipe. When grease has built up along the walls over years, we jet the line. If your garbage disposal hums but the water backs up, the problem is almost always the drain line, not the disposal.
from $100Bathroom and Shower Drain Cleaning
Hair and soap scum bind together in the trap and trap arm. We pull the cover, run a cable through to where the clog sits, and pull it out completely instead of dissolving the top layer with chemicals that eat at older pipe. If the shower, tub, and sink all drain slowly at the same time, we check the main line rather than clearing drains one at a time.
from $100Clogged Toilet and Floor Drain Cleaning
A toilet that gurgles, overflows, or refuses to flush fully needs a closet auger — not a plunger. We clear the bowl without scratching it and pull the toilet if the clog sits deeper in the line. Floor drains that back up during laundry are a common main line signal. We treat these as same-day calls, any day of the year.
from $100Drain Cleaning Cost in Fort Collins — What You Pay in 2026
| SERVICE | TYPICAL PRICE IN FORT COLLINS |
|---|---|
| Drain snaking / rooter service | $100 – $300 |
| Main sewer line clearing | $150 – $500 |
| Hydro jetting — drain line | $350 – $700 |
| Hydro jetting — main sewer line | $600 – $1,400 |
| Sewer camera inspection | $125 – $500 |
| Pre-purchase sewer camera | $125 – $300 |
| Trenchless spot repair | $1,500 – $3,000 |
| Full sewer line replacement | $4,000 – $15,000+ |
What can push the price higher in Fort Collins:
- No clean out access — we reach the line through a roof vent or by pulling a toilet
- Pipe deeper than six feet — common under Old Town homes built in the early 1900s
- Years of Poudre River mineral scale narrowing the pipe inside
- Heavy root intrusion from the old-growth trees along Old Town streets
- Fragile clay or paper-composite pipe that needs careful handling to avoid breaking further
How a Drain Service Visit Works in Fort Collins
You call, a real person answers.
Any hour, any day. Same day appointments are standard, and we dispatch immediately for emergencies.
Camera first, always.
We find the real cause before we recommend anything. On older Old Town lines this step catches broken pipe that a snake would miss entirely.
Flat price in writing.
If the camera finds something unexpected, we stop and talk before we proceed.
Right tool for the actual problem.
Rooter for a simple clog. Jetting for grease and scale. Trenchless repair for a broken pipe. Open digging only when nothing else will hold.
Camera again after the job.
We confirm the line is clear from end to end before we leave.
Why Fort Collins Chooses Us Over Other Drain Cleaning Companies
Why Drains Clog Faster in Fort Collins Than Most Cities
Fort Collins has two drain problems most cities do not share at the same time.
Hard Water from the Cache la Poudre
Fort Collins water tests around 9 grains per gallon of hardness — well above the threshold where mineral scale starts depositing inside pipes year after year. The inside of the pipe gets smaller every year. A snake opens a hole in the scale but leaves the buildup on the walls, so the clog returns faster each time. Hydro jetting scours the full wall and resets the pipe to its original diameter. That is why jetting holds longer here than in cities with softer water.
Old Clay Pipe and Shifting Front Range Soil
Much of Old Town Fort Collins sits on pipe laid in the early 1900s. Clay joints that were tight a century ago have cracked over decades of freeze-thaw cycles and soil movement. Roots from the mature cottonwoods and elms that line Old Town streets find those cracks and grow into the pipe. Older galvanized steel lines have rusted and narrowed. Newer neighborhoods near Harmony run plastic pipe that does not have these problems — the issues are grease and food, not structure. The city varies enormously block by block, and knowing which type of pipe you have changes the entire diagnosis.
Old Town vs. CSU Rentals vs. Harmony — Three Different Drain Problems
Old Town and Downtown Fort Collins
Homes built between 1900 and 1940 still running their first clay or cast iron pipe. Cracked joints let in roots from the old street trees. This is the zone where a camera check and trenchless repair save the most money.
Student Rentals Near Colorado State University and Campus West
High occupancy and frequent tenant turnover mean kitchen drains see heavy grease and bathroom drains take constant hair loads — on pipe that was never sized for it. Clogs here are hard and come back fast, especially at the end of the school year. Property managers with multiple units near CSU benefit from a regular jetting schedule rather than emergency calls.
Newer Builds Near Harmony, Fossil Creek, Rigden Farm, and Bucking Horse
Modern PVC and ABS plastic pipe runs clean and rarely cracks. The drain problems here are grease, garbage disposal waste, and hard water scale — not broken pipe. Snaking usually clears it; jetting keeps it clear longer.
We Know All Three
We do only drains and sewers, all day, every day across Fort Collins. That is why we can tell these homes apart in a few minutes on the camera and bring the right fix the first time.
Signs Your Fort Collins Drain or Sewer Line Needs Cleaning
Call before a slow drain becomes a flooded basement:
Multiple drains slow at once
Every drain in your home connects to one main sewer line. When several slow down together, that line is the problem.
Toilet gurgles after flushing
Air bubbling back past a partial main line clog — one of the earliest warning signs.
Sewer smell inside or in the yard
A cracked pipe is venting gas into the house or soil — old joint failure in most cases.
A wet, green patch in the yard
A leaking sewer line is feeding that grass with nutrients and water from below.
The same drain clogs every few weeks
Cleared but not fixed. The buildup — scale, grease, roots — was never fully removed. Skip the store-bought chemical cleaners. They soften the top of a clog and eat at older pipe, leaving the real cause in place.
Buying a Home in Fort Collins? Get a Sewer Camera Check First
A standard home inspection does not include the buried sewer line. For $125 to $300 we run a camera from the house to the city main and show you exactly what you are buying.
This matters more in Fort Collins than in most cities. A large share of Old Town and the areas surrounding CSU were built before 1990 on pipe that is now at or past its design life. Root intrusion, cracked clay, and corrosion do not show up in a visual inspection of the house. A camera check finds them before you close — when you still have options: a price adjustment, a repair credit, or the choice to walk away.
You get the full video recording and a plain-language written summary. No sales pressure. Just what the camera shows.
Commercial Drain Cleaning in Fort Collins
Restaurants and commercial kitchens along College Avenue and in the Old Town Square push grease, food waste, and high daily volume through their drain lines from open to close. A clogged kitchen drain during service costs money every minute it sits. We clear commercial drains, service grease traps, and build regular jetting schedules around your operating hours so a drain problem never shuts down your kitchen.
For office buildings, retail spaces, and multi-tenant properties along Harmony Road and throughout Fort Collins, we handle one-time backups and ongoing maintenance plans. Fast response, camera documentation, and records for every address.
Drain and Sewer Service for Landlords and Property Managers
Landlords with rentals near Colorado State University know the pattern: heavy grease and hair during the school year, a wave of backups at move-out, and the pressure to turn a unit fast between tenants. We handle emergency calls and set jetting schedules between leases — with camera reports for every address, so you have a written record of condition at each visit.
One call covers a single fourplex or your entire Larimer County portfolio.
Residential Drain Cleaning Service in Fort Collins
For homeowners, we take the time to explain what the camera shows and what your options are — so you understand your own plumbing and can make an informed decision. No upselling. No unnecessary work. Our residential drain cleaning service covers everything from a slow shower drain to a full sewer line replacement under a 100-year-old Old Town yard.
Fort Collins Areas and ZIP Codes We Cover
ZIP Codes
80521, 80524, 80525, 80526, 80528
Neighborhoods
Old Town, Old Town West, Campus West, University Acres, Midtown, City Park, Fossil Creek, Rigden Farm, Bucking Horse, Fossil Lake Ranch, Harmony corridor
Who Owns the Line and Why It Matters
The city owns the main sewer line under the street. You own the lateral — the pipe running from your foundation to that main. Virtually every residential sewer problem happens on your lateral, on your dime. Most homeowner insurance policies exclude sewer backup unless you add it as a rider. That rider typically costs $50 to $150 per year, which is a fraction of what a basement cleanup costs.
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Get Your Fort Collins Drain Cleared Today
Hard water from the Poudre and century-old clay pipe under Old Town create a real drain challenge. We know this city's plumbing, clear it fast, and show you on camera exactly what was wrong. Flat price upfront. Same day across Fort Collins. A live person every time.
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