Drain Cleaning in Everett, WA
Kitchen drains, main lines and the camera pass that tells you why it clogged, from licensed plumbers ten minutes away
Stollwerck Plumbing & Sewer clears drains across Everett, from a slow kitchen sink to a main line full of roots, and on main lines we run a camera after the cable so you see what caused the clog and whether it will come back. Our shop is ten minutes south in Mukilteo, so same-day drain cleaning in Everett is usually possible.
Real Drain Work in Everett
In July 2026 a homeowner in south Everett called with every fixture in the house draining slowly, which is the sign that the trouble is in the main line rather than in any one drain. The homeowner had already pulled the toilet, planning to replace it anyway, so Willie and Chase had their access. They ran the 3/8-inch cable machine down the line with a spade bit first, which broke through the blockage, then switched to a root-cutting head and pulled back a significant tangle of roots along with the paper and grease that had built up behind them.
Then came the part that separates a clearing from a guess. The camera went down the same line and showed that the roots had been entering at the transition where the house's ABS pipe meets the older concrete pipe on its way to the street, and that the cutter had cleaned it. Willie and Chase flushed every toilet in the house several times and ran every sink for a couple of minutes to confirm the drainage held, then recorded two camera runs, one from the bathroom and one from the front-yard cleanout, roughly seventy feet out to the city main.
In May the call was smaller and just as typical: a kitchen line in south Everett that had stopped taking water. Chase and Logan found the grease clog twenty-five to thirty feet out, worked the cable a foot either side of it to clean the walls, ran water for ten minutes, and finished with five dump tests on each side of the double sink and a check of the trap for leaks. Different scale, same habit: clear it, then prove it.
What We Clear in Everett
Kitchen, Bathroom and Laundry Drains
Grease in kitchen lines, hair and soap in tubs and lavatories, lint in laundry standpipes. These are the short-line jobs, cleared with the small machine and confirmed with dump tests before we pack up.
Main and Side Sewer Lines
When everything in the house backs up together, the blockage is in the main. That takes the larger cable machine, the right cutting head for what is in there, and access through a cleanout or a pulled toilet.
Camera Inspection After Clearing
On a main line, the camera follows the cable. It shows what caused the clog, whether the pipe is broken or offset, and how far the trouble runs, and the recording is yours.
When a Cable Is Not Enough
Heavy grease or a line that has scaled up across its whole length calls for hydro jetting, and a pipe with a missing bottom or a collapsed joint is a sewer repair conversation, not a cleaning one. We tell you which you have.
Everett-Specific Considerations
North Everett Drains Into a Combined Sewer
The north end of Everett, the historic core that includes Rucker Hill, Northwest Everett and Riverside, is served by a combined sewer built between 1890 and 1963 that carries rainwater and sewage in the same pipe. In a hard rain those pipes fill from the street side, and a basement floor drain or a low fixture can back up even when the house’s own line is clean. South Everett neighborhoods like Boulevard Bluffs, Pinehurst and View Ridge sit on separated systems, so a backup there usually starts on the property.
Your Side Sewer and the City’s Main
In Everett the property owner is responsible for the side sewer from the house to the edge of the public right of way, and the city maintains the lines within it. We clear and camera the owner’s side. If the camera shows the problem is out in the street, Everett Public Works has a sewer emergency line, 425-257-8821, and we will tell you plainly when it is time to call it instead of us.
Old Pipe, New Pipe and the Joint Between Them
Much of Everett was plumbed in eras that left cast iron, concrete and clay in the ground, and where a section has since been replaced with ABS, the joint between old and new is where roots find their way in. The July job above failed exactly there. North-end houses also carry galvanized branch lines and drains cast into concrete, which is its own story, and we wrote up one such main drain failure in south Everett earlier this year.
Soft Water, So It Is Roots and Grease
Everett’s water comes from Spada Lake and is soft, so the mineral scale that narrows drains in hard-water regions is not the usual culprit here. What we pull out of Everett drains is roots at the joints, grease in kitchen lines and paper packed behind both, which is why a cable with the right head, followed by a camera, solves most of them.
How We Clear an Everett Drain
Find the Access
A cleanout is best, a pulled toilet is next, and a trap arm serves for a single fixture. If your house has no cleanout at all, we tell you so and offer to add one, because it changes the cost of every future call.
Cable With the Right Head
A spade bit to break through, then a root cutter or a grease head to clean the walls of the pipe. Punching a hole through a clog is not the same as clearing it, and the second pass is where the difference lives.
Camera and Run Every Fixture
On a main, the camera follows the cable and the recording goes to you. Then every toilet is flushed and every sink is run, or the fixture gets its dump tests, before anyone calls it done.
Tell You What We Saw
If the line is sound, we say so. If roots are getting in at a joint or a section is broken, you hear what that means and what it would take to fix, in plain language, with no pressure to decide that day.
Drain Cleaning FAQ for Everett
Is a backed-up drain my problem or the City of Everett’s?
If one fixture is slow, it is your drain. If everything backs up at once, the trouble is in your main line or the city’s. The owner is responsible for the side sewer to the public right of way; we clear and camera that side, and if the problem is in the street we tell you to call Public Works.
Why does my north Everett basement drain back up when it rains hard?
Because the north end of Everett drains into a combined sewer that carries stormwater and sewage together. In a heavy rain the street mains fill and the water level rises into the lowest openings connected to them, which in an older house is the basement floor drain. Your own line may be clear; a backwater valve is the usual protection.
How much does drain cleaning cost in Everett?
Which drain it is decides the price. Clearing a single kitchen, bathroom or tub drain is the least expensive call we make. A main or side sewer line takes the larger machine and usually a camera pass afterward, so it costs considerably more, and hydro jetting sits above that. We price the job before we start, never after.
Do you camera the line after clearing an Everett drain?
Yes on main and side sewer lines, because a cable can punch through a blockage without telling you what caused it or what shape the pipe is in. The camera shows roots, breaks and offsets and records the run to the city main. On single fixture drains we confirm with dump tests instead, since the line is short.
Can roots get into the drain of a newer south Everett home?
Yes, at the joints. Roots do not break into sound pipe; they follow moisture into a joint that has opened, and a common one is where a house’s newer ABS meets the older concrete or clay pipe that was left in the ground toward the street. The July job above was a south Everett house with exactly that transition.
Serving Everett From Mukilteo
Our shop is in Old Town Mukilteo, about ten minutes from Everett's south end and a little longer to the north end through downtown. Everett is our second-largest market after Mukilteo itself, so a truck is often already in the city, and same-day drain calls are the norm rather than the exception. When the ferry line backs up the Speedway, we tell you before it costs you an afternoon.
Why Everett Homeowners Choose Us
Licensed Plumbers, Not Contractors
Every person we send is a licensed plumber on our own crew, which is who you want deciding whether a line needs clearing or repair.
We Clear It, Then Prove It
A clog is not gone because the water went down once. It is gone when every fixture has been run and, on a main line, the camera has shown the pipe open to the street.
A One-Year Guarantee
Our workmanship is guaranteed for a full year on every job, and we tell you honestly when a line’s condition means a clearing will not hold that long.
A Drain That Keeps Backing Up
Call the Mukilteo office and tell us which fixtures are slow. That one detail usually tells us whether we are bringing the small machine or the big one.