Emergency Plumber Recommendation
I wanted to give a quick shoutout to a great emergency sewer clog cleaning service whose guy came within about an hour of a call I made at 9am on New Years Day (!!!). It’s http://www.a4995.com/ and I actually found them from the brownstoner archive. The guy came, cleaned out a clogged sewer drain (guess…
I wanted to give a quick shoutout to a great emergency sewer clog cleaning service whose guy came within about an hour of a call I made at 9am on New Years Day (!!!). It’s http://www.a4995.com/ and I actually found them from the brownstoner archive.
The guy came, cleaned out a clogged sewer drain (guess our tenants were having a stuff-some-paper-towels-down-the-toilet party) for $50 and cleaned out another pipe (something about soap gunk?) for another $50. $111 with tax. I also tipped the guy $20 since presumably he’s not getting paid a heck of a lot for making these calls on holiday mornings…
After he left, of course, the fun with the bleach and broom began– what a way to start the new year as a new homeowner!
Yes – I would definitively NOT recommend Roto Rooter. We were on vacation in New Hampshire when our front upstairs tenant’s shower drainage water started coming out of the downstairs tenant’s bathroom. A friend jumped in for us and called Roto Rooter.
We paid $900!!!!! – and 2 weeks later the very same clog re-appeared. It was at least covered by their warranty – but we had more flooding downstairs and in the basement – it’s all been a nightmare. They came back & seem to have fixed it, and gave me a new 30 day warranty – not really enough – if cleaned well, this should last 2 years.
Legion, Had any luck with a specific company? I’ve had two Roto Rooter emergencies in the last two years at $300 a pop, ugh.
speaking of Roto Rooter,
if you call them, they will certainly show up
but be prepared to pay through the nose for the
service.
They always seem to charge $300 plus per visit, and that’s only for a clogged tub drain or something similar.
You’re best bet is to become familiar with the companies that do the same service for $49 per call. they usually want you to sign up for a yearly contract ($50) where they call you once a year for a maintainence service, but it is well worth it, especially for the sewer main which tends to clog up during the winter holidays.
First off, they remind you when you are usually too busy to forget and secondly, better to pay the $50 yearly than to spend New Year’s day cleaning out sewer back up.
That is cheap. Most Roto Rooter type operations don’t get out of the truck for less than 2 bills.