Drain Cleaning in Clifton, NJ

Across the river

Clifton is directly across the Passaic River from Garfield, which puts much of it within a few miles of the Lodi shop. It is large by area — one of the bigger municipalities in the region — and it varies considerably from one end to the other.

A city of neighbourhoods, and of eras

Clifton does not have one housing stock, it has several, and the drain work changes with the neighbourhood.

Botany, Dutch Hill and the older sections near Passaic and Paterson are dense and early, with pre-war two-families and the clay-and-cast-iron drainage that goes with them. Root intrusion and shared stacks.

The 1920s to 1950s single-family neighbourhoods across the middle of the city are the classic northern New Jersey root job: a clay lateral of thirty to sixty feet running under a treed front lawn to the street main.

Post-war and later development toward Montclair Heights and the western edge brings cast iron and plastic, longer runs, and grease and scale rather than roots as the usual cause.

Garden apartment complexes, of which Clifton has many, have shared drainage serving large numbers of units, where a single blockage on a main run affects everybody upstream of it.

Route 3, Route 46 and the commercial corridors

Clifton carries major commercial corridors along Route 3 and Route 46, with a heavy concentration of restaurants, diners and food retail. Every one of those has a grease line, and a grease line behaves differently from a domestic drain: it does not block from an object, it closes gradually as grease builds on the wall. A cable makes a hole in that build-up. Jetting removes it. This is the single most useful thing we can tell a Clifton restaurant owner, and it is why we push scheduled jetting rather than repeat call-outs.

Working out which Clifton problem you have

Because the city is so varied, the first question on a Clifton call is the age and type of the building — it narrows the likely cause before anyone arrives. Where the history is unclear or the line has failed more than once, a camera inspection is the way to stop guessing.

Call (201) 315-6655, day or night, any day of the week.