Drain Cleaning in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
On the ridge above the Meadowlands, two miles east of Lodi. Higher ground than most of what we cover.
Up the hill
Hasbrouck Heights is about two miles east of Lodi, and its name is accurate — the borough sits on a ridge above the Meadowlands, noticeably higher than Lodi, Wood-Ridge or Moonachie below it.
What being on high ground changes
Most of the boroughs immediately around us are on low ground and deal with groundwater pressing in. Hasbrouck Heights largely does not, and that removes one whole category of basement problem. Storm-driven floor drain backups are much less of a theme here than they are in Lodi, Garfield or the Meadowlands boroughs.
What replaces it is gradient. A property on a slope has a lateral running downhill, sometimes steeply, and a steep run is not automatically a good run. Water moves faster than solids down a sharp pitch, which leaves solids behind partway along — the same end result as a flat section, arrived at from the opposite direction. Where a house on the ridge blocks repeatedly with no roots visible on camera, pitch is worth looking at.
The housing
Hasbrouck Heights is overwhelmingly single-family and was largely built between the 1920s and the 1950s, on modest, well-treed lots. The common jobs:
- Root intrusion in clay laterals. The street trees are mature and the laterals are the right age for clay.
- Cast iron stacks at the end of their useful bore. A 1930s house on original cast iron is running on a fraction of its original diameter.
- Kitchen branch grease, in houses where a post-war kitchen was added onto pre-war drainage.
Route 17 and the commercial edge
Route 17 runs along the borough and carries hotels and restaurants. Commercial kitchen and hotel drainage is a grease and volume problem, and hydro jetting on a schedule is the maintenance that prevents it becoming an emergency.
Calling
(201) 315-6655, day or night, any day of the week. If the same drain has blocked more than once in a year, say so — a repeat is a different conversation from a one-off, and usually means putting a camera down it rather than just clearing it again.
Recent work
Photographs from jobs across the counties we cover.
