Drain & Sewer Service
in East Village
The East Village is tenement-era buildings stacked over one of the densest restaurant and bar concentrations in Manhattan — old plumbing, heavy commercial load.
The housing stock decides the problem
Old-law and new-law tenements from the 1880s–1920s, five and six stories, narrow cast iron stacks, cellars used for storage and kitchen prep, and ground-floor commercial spaces on nearly every corridor.
Restaurants below, tenements above, one line between
A ground-floor kitchen and five floors of apartments frequently share drainage that predates both. Grease from below and everything from above meet in a narrow, century-old line, which is why East Village blockages tend to be sudden and dramatic rather than gradual. Scheduled jetting for the commercial line is the single most effective thing a building here can do.
Cellar and sidewalk drains that protect the storage
Most of the value in these buildings' cellars is inventory sitting on the floor. Sidewalk grates, areaway drains and cellar floor drains are the only things between that inventory and a heavy rain, and they clog with exactly what a busy street drops on them. Clearing them before the season is far cheaper than a flooded cellar.
Most-called services in East Village
Hydro Jetting
Our jetting fleet, for any line that needs its full diameter back — mains, branches, grease lines, site drains.
Learn more →Toilet & Stack Lines
From a single stubborn bowl to a full stack serving every floor in the building.
Learn more →Floor Drains
Basement, laundry and garage drains — cleared, and kept clear on a schedule if you want.
Learn more →Streets & areas we cover
Straight answers
Our East Village building has a restaurant downstairs and constant backups. What actually fixes it?
A flush upstairs comes up in my tub. Whose problem is it?
Nearby in Manhattan
Sewage doesn’t keep
business hours. Neither do we.
Nights, weekends, holidays — the emergency line rings a dispatcher, not a voicemail.