Drain Cleaning in Bay Shore, NYOld Mains, Shared Stacks, Full Houses

The Census Bureau's latest survey counts 54% of homes as single-family detached, 12% as townhouses and 30% in buildings of three or more units, plus 2% mobile homes. In a detached house, the drains are all yours, down to the sewer. In a townhouse or apartment, your fixtures drain into a stack or main shared with neighbors. A clog in your sink's line is yours; a backup that shows up in several units at once is in a shared line, and the building or association handles it.

Counting land only, about 95% of Bay Shore is inside the county's Southwest Sewer District, by our overlay of the county's sewer map, and its sewage goes to the Bergen Point plant. If you're on the sewer, a whole-house backup is usually in your own line between the house and the street. In the small areas outside the district, mostly at the north end, the line runs to a cesspool or septic system. We clear the house line either way; a full or failing cesspool is a job for a cesspool or septic contractor, and we don't do cesspool work.

We clear from the fixture for a single slow drain and from the main cleanout for a whole-house backup, and we show you what came back on the cable. Repeated root clogs or a clog that returns within weeks point to a damaged pipe, which our Bay Shore sewer line page covers.