How often should a commercial kitchen be jetted?

Most kitchens do well on a quarterly or semi-annual schedule depending on volume and whether the grease interceptor is properly maintained. A scheduled jetting costs a fraction of an emergency shutdown during service.

Does hydro jetting remove tree roots?

It clears root hair and fine root mass effectively. Heavy woody intrusion is usually cut mechanically first, then jetted to clean up what remains. If roots keep coming back, the real fix is sealing the joints they enter through — which is a lining conversation.

Hydro Jetting Drain & Sewer Cleaning, Maryland

Hydro Jetting

Water at pressure, scouring the pipe wall back to bare diameter.

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A cable machine cuts a channel through a blockage. Hydro jetting removes the blockage. That distinction is the whole reason jetting exists, and it is why restaurants, apartment buildings and any home with a chronic grease line end up here eventually.

A jetter drives water through a specialised nozzle at pressures up to roughly 4,000 PSI. Rear-facing jets propel the hose up the line and scour the pipe wall as it travels, stripping grease, soap, sludge and softened scale and flushing the debris back down to the main. What you are left with is not a hole through the clog — it is the original inside diameter of the pipe.

Jetting is the correct tool for grease, sludge, sediment and root hair. It is not the correct tool for every pipe: badly corroded cast iron, or a line with existing structural damage, should be inspected on camera first, because pressure will find any weakness that is already there. We camera first on any line we have not seen before.

Sewer and drain crew operating hydro jetting equipment from a service truck on a Maryland street

Signs you need this

A kitchen or commercial grease line that clogs on a recurring schedule
Multiple slow drains that cabling fixes only briefly
Sludge or sediment buildup in a main line
Restaurant, café or multi-unit property maintenance
Prep work before installing a trenchless liner

How we do it

01
Inspect
Confirm the pipe is sound enough for pressure before we apply any.
02
Set up
Access through the cleanout, with the jetter trailer staged off your landscaping.
03
Jet
The nozzle works up the line and scours the wall back to full diameter on the way.
04
Flush & verify
Debris flushed to the main, then a camera pass to prove the result.

Hydro Jetting — common questions

On sound pipe, yes. On cast iron that has already corroded through, or a line with existing cracks, pressure will find the weakness. That is precisely why we camera an unfamiliar line before jetting it rather than after — and why we will recommend descaling or repair instead when that is what the pipe actually needs.