Drain Cleaning in Katy, TX

Signs of a clogged drain (and who this is for)

A clogged drain, a backup, gurgling, or sewage at a fixture is why most Katy homeowners look up drain cleaning. Call when you notice:

This page is for Katy homeowners and light-commercial kitchens (including grease-trap lines) who want a clogged drain cleared and the cause named. A single slow bathroom sink is still drain cleaning. A main-line backup is drain cleaning too. You do not have to wait until water is on the floor.

After a heavy rain, some Katy slabs and older laterals show the problem at the cleanout first. If you see water there, or sewage at the lowest fixture, stop using the drains and call. That is still a drain issue. It is not automatically a replacement job.

• A clogged or slow drain that used to empty fine
• Standing water in a sink, tub, or shower after a backup
• Water backing up into another fixture (you flush the toilet and the tub fills)
• Sewage at the lowest drain, often a floor drain or a garage drain
• Gurgling, a bubbling toilet, or sewer odor
• Water showing at a cleanout
• More than one fixture acting up at once
• A clog that returns after a chemical cleaner or a store-bought snake

How Ory’s does the work

We diagnose first. Grease, hair, roots, crushed pipe, and leftover builder debris do not clear the same way.

We will tell you if snaking is enough, if jetting will actually help, or if the camera shows an offset, belly, or collapsed pipe that cleaning will not fix. That is an honest decision tree. Drain cleaning restores flow. It is not a permanent fix for a broken pipe, and we will not sell it as one.

1. Look at the pattern. One fixture usually means a branch line or fixture drain. Several fixtures, sewage at the lowest drain, or water at the cleanout usually means the main line or the lateral.
2. Snake for a localized fixture clog, such as hair in a bath line or food waste in a kitchen trap and first run. A cable breaks or retrieves a blockage in one spot. It is the right tool when the pipe itself is sound.
3. Hydro-jet when grease, FOG, soap scum, hard-water scale, or soft roots coat the pipe. Jetting washes the full diameter. A snake can punch a hole through the same mess and leave the walls coated, which is why that clog comes back. We do not jet a line whose condition we cannot stand behind. If the pipe may be offset, belly, or collapsed, we camera first.
4. Camera when the clog recurs, more than one fixture is involved, clearing fails, or we have not seen the pipe. Camera inspection is how we tell PVC from cast iron or clay tile, and how we find tree roots at a joint versus a crushed section under a slab.
5. Flush and test. We run water through the fixtures that were failing and check the cleanout.
6. Price before we start the work. You get an upfront, written price after we see the line, not a coupon and not a guess from the driveway.

Why Katy homeowners trust Ory’s

Service areas

• Katy, TX (77450 and 77494)
• Cinco Ranch
• Cross Creek Ranch
• Seven Meadows
• Cane Island
• Firethorne
• Fulshear
• West Houston

Professional drain cleaning for homes and light-commercial kitchens in: Older Katy and homes often fight clay-soil movement, oak roots, and aging cast iron or clay tile. Newer , , , and homes more often fight builder debris and tight PVC runs. Both are drain cleaning. Both get the same diagnosis-first visit.