Drain Cleaning in Lynbrook, NYPre-War Stacks and Two-Family Mains

Lynbrook's housing is older than most of the South Shore, and almost a quarter of it shares drains between two households. See our Lynbrook page and the drain cleaning page.

The Census Bureau's latest survey puts 45% of Lynbrook homes before 1940 and another 27% in the 1940s and 1950s. Cast-iron stacks from those years are often thin in spots; clay or cast-iron laterals open to roots at the joints. Harsh chemical cleaners do more damage to old metal than good, so we clear with a cable sized to the pipe and show you what came back: grease, paper, roots or scale.

The survey puts the average owner household at 3.08 people in a home with a median of 5.9 rooms — tighter than many South Shore hamlets — so a lot of water goes down one main in a short morning. Apartment and co-op buildings (19% of homes are in buildings of five or more units) have building systems run by management; we work inside individual units and on single-family and two-family houses.

A single slow sink gets cleared at the fixture. A whole-house or whole-building backup gets cleared from the main cleanout. Roots or a clog that returns at the same distance point to the pipe, which our Lynbrook sewer line page covers.