Commercial Hydro Jetting
For commercial kitchens and properties with heavy drain loads, jetting on a schedule is the difference between routine maintenance and an emergency closure.
Commercial Hydro Jetting
When to call
What usually brings people to this
Plenty of properties in our service area were never tied into a municipal sewer, so the whole system is a tank and a leach field sitting in somebody's yard.
These are the symptoms that usually prompt the call. Any one of them is worth a conversation, and most of them get cheaper to deal with the earlier they are looked at.
Restaurant and commercial kitchen lines
Lines that re-block soon after cabling
Grease carrying past an interceptor
Scale buildup in older commercial pipe
Properties with a history of drain emergencies
Water finds its way into structure, insulation and flooring long before anybody sees it, which is what makes early diagnosis worth so much.
How we work it
We would rather spend an extra half hour locating the fault than an extra day undoing unnecessary work.
Assess the line and its history
How often it blocks and why sets the right interval.
Schedule around operations
Most commercial jetting happens outside trading hours.
Jet at the correct pressure
Matched to pipe material and condition, verified by camera first where the line's condition is unknown.
Set a maintenance interval
Scheduled jetting costs a fraction of emergency response plus lost trade.
Worth knowingWhat commercial hydro jetting actually involves
If the honest answer is that this can wait, or that a smaller repair will do, that is the answer you get. We are not working from a script.
The business case for scheduled jetting is straightforward. An emergency drain failure in a restaurant costs a service call plus lost trade plus, in the worst cases, a health inspection problem. Scheduled jetting outside operating hours costs a service call. Most kitchens that have had one bad closure move to a maintenance schedule and stay on it.
We keep the trucks stocked for the failures this valley actually produces rather than a generic national parts list.
Four decades of work in this region built a service area that covers most of the Inland Empire. If you are outside the usual radius, call and ask. We cover more ground than most shops our size.
We would rather spend an extra half hour locating the fault than an extra day undoing unnecessary work.
Keeping it from happening again
Water finds its way into structure, insulation and flooring long before anybody sees it, which is what makes early diagnosis worth so much.
Knowing your own system is worth real money. Where the main shutoff is, where the sewer cleanout is, how old the water heater is, and whether the property is on sewer or septic. Those four facts shorten every future service call you will ever have.
If you have had a line cleared more than once, ask for a camera inspection rather than a third clearing. Repeated blockages nearly always have a physical cause worth finding.
Look behind and under appliances once in a while. Washing machine hoses, dishwasher connections and ice-maker lines are common leak sources and they are all hidden from normal view.
For commercial property, a maintenance schedule on drains and interceptors costs a fraction of emergency response, and it is the difference between planned work and a closure.
Who you are calling
We would rather come out and find it was nothing than have somebody wait on a problem that was getting worse.
This company has been in one family since 1982, through three generations of Inland Empire housing and every change in the trade along the way.
We hold plumbing, sanitation and general engineering contractor licensing, which is what allows one shop to take a job from the fixture in the bathroom all the way out to the leach field.
We are a family shop, not a franchise. The person who answers has a stake in how your job goes.
Big Mike's · Yucaipa, California
Questions we get about commercial hydro jetting
If yours is not here, call and ask. We would rather talk it through than have you guess.
How often should a restaurant jet its lines?
It follows volume and what goes down the drain. Many kitchens settle on quarterly, some monthly. We set it from your actual line condition.
Can you work overnight?
Yes. Most of our commercial jetting is scheduled outside business hours.
Is jetting safe for old commercial pipe?
We camera first and match pressure to condition. Where the pipe cannot take it, we say so and recommend something else.
Does it help with odor?
Often yes, since odor frequently comes from decaying buildup coating the line.
How long have you been in business?
Since 1982. Big Mike founded the company and handed it to his family, who run it now. That is forty-four years in the same valley under the same name.
What payment do you take?
Call and ask and we will tell you straight. You will know the cost before the work starts either way.
Can you give a price over the phone?
For simple, well-defined jobs sometimes. For anything that needs diagnosis, a number quoted blind is a guess, and we would rather look first and give you a real figure.
Are you licensed?
Yes. We hold plumbing, sanitation and general engineering contractor licensing, which lets one shop handle work that runs from inside the house out to the septic field.
How this fits the rest of the system
Compliance is a live concern in commercial plumbing in a way it is not residentially. Backflow assemblies need annual testing and certification. Grease interceptors need servicing and records. Health inspections look at drainage. Keeping the documentation straight is part of the service rather than an administrative afterthought.
Before we come out
Knowing when the problem started, whether it is constant or intermittent, and whether anything was done to the property recently tells us a surprising amount before we arrive.
Our territory spans mountain-adjacent communities, valley cities and desert towns, each with its own water conditions and construction patterns.
Related work and where we do it
Other commercial work
- Commercial Drain Cleaning
Keeping business drains running.
- Office Building Plumbing
Multi-tenant office systems.
- Commercial Leak Repair
Commercial leak repairs.
- Apartment Complex Plumbing
Multifamily plumbing across many units.
- Backflow Prevention
Protecting potable supply from cross-connection.
- Backflow Installation
Installing backflow prevention assemblies.
Where we go
We run commercial hydro jetting out of Yucaipa across Victorville, Moreno Valley, Upland, Montclair, Diamond Bar, Chino Hills and Canyon Lake, and the rest of San Bernardino, Riverside and the eastern edge of Los Angeles County.
Call the shop. A person picks up.
Tell us what it is doing and we will tell you what it takes to fix it. Plain language, no sales pitch, and the number before we start.
Yucaipa, California · Serving San Bernardino, Riverside and eastern Los Angeles counties · Open 24 hours