Drain Cleaning Professionalism

[westcoastplumber]

Do you use blades on your drain cleaning machines?

[DUNBAR]

Yes.....


with the exception of smaller drains. Slightly bent open hook.

[westcoastplumber]

Vote away fella'z, I will be open and truthfull, I use a blade on my 3/4" mainline only, my 3/8" and 1/4" have a hook, and on my 1/4", I have it bent a special way to pass traps easily.

I cannot remember one specific call beck on a drain I have cleared. I have actually recieved compliments on trips back for repeat customers, I ask how their drain is to follow up on the last service call, and they explain no problems. I had one the other day, he stated it never drained so good. So it is what it is and to each their own.

[Aaron91]

Which option do I choose if I don't bend any cable's at all? :confused:

[Drain Medic]

Spartan 2001, I use C cutters, or any cutter i need all the time on that machine

Spartan 100, Rarely do i use a cutter, but i do like using cutters on that machine to get thru floor drains

Spartan 81, I will not use a cutter at all.

On all of these machines i make a bent leader so that the cable will scrape the entire diameter of the pipe.

Sectionals i will use a bent leader with a head to go back on traps, and work with cleanouts. I will use a straight leader with a head going thru traps with a sectional

[westcoastplumber]

Which option do I choose if I don't bend any cable's at all? :confused:


Hmmmm, crappy pole I guess, well it is my first one :way-to-go:

ok then, you don't bend at all? you must use a blade then???

If you don't do either, then that could be a problem......

[Gene Bickford]

At the risk of sounding like an a** yet again, What's a top snake?

[westcoastplumber]

At the risk of sounding like an a** yet again, What's a top snake?


I use the general super vee, excellent top snake.

great for showers, tubs and lavs.

[Gene Bickford]

OH. o.k.
Now I'm really going to look like an A**.
My name is Gene B. and I own a power spin. There I said it. Admitting I have a power spin is the first step:help:.
I like the Super Vee but its hard as hell on my hand,wrist, and forearm. Too many years of pipe laying and visiting mary palmer and her five sisters:D I guess. I can run a Super Vee about 5 mins max, then I can't feel my hand, after that it's just a short time before I can't even hold on to it.
Anyone make a machine thats like a power spin but built as good as a Super Vee?

[gear junkie]

I use the bulb auger for my 5/16 cable with the end being bent, helps get through traps like this. For everything else, I run blades. Still waiting to see a pic of this special bend of the cable you talk about.

[plumberscrack]

Yes.....


with the exception of smaller drains. Slightly bent open hook.

Same here

The drop heads always break on the smaller cables anyway, so the first thing I do cut them off and put on my custom kink. It's easier to get the hair off the end off a bent cable than to pick it out of a bulb head. I get really grossed out doing that :barf:

I use a flat blade not the 4 sided one on the mainline cable

[westcoastplumber]

Same here

The drop heads always break on the smaller cables anyway, so the first thing I do cut them off and put on my custom kink. It's easier to get the hair off the end off a bent cable than to pick it out of a bulb head. I get really grossed out doing that :barf:

I use a flat blade not the 4 sided one on the mainline cable


Crack, I think you forgot to vote number 1 or number 2 would fit your
answer :p

[plumberscrack]

Crack, I think you forgot to vote number 1 or number 2 would fit your
answer :p

No I voted #1 earlier, just didn't post anything until now. I didn't want to vote too soon and look like a fool when the results came in :o

[westcoastplumber]

No I voted #1 earlier, just didn't post anything until now. I didn't want to vote too soon and look like a fool when the results came in :o


LOL, I left it private so no one would feel obligated to vote one way or another, this way it's all a secret, so everyone can be real honest:banghead:

[Tyman]

I use blades or bulbs on all the snakes except the one that doesn't take it. It is a 1/4" cable. I don't own a power spin either :rotflmao:

[ToUtahNow]

Blades on 3/8", 1/2", 5/8", 3/4", 7/8" and 1 1/4" depending on conditions.

Mark

[All Clear Sewer]

3/4 gets cutters and retrievers

3/8 gets blades, drop head and bulb auger`s. (I never use it any more but it`s still in the trailer taking up room) ;)

5/16 gets blades and bulb auger`s

1/4 I bend the hell out of it :D

[PLUMBER RICK]

I use the bulb auger for my 5/16 cable with the end being bent, helps get through traps like this. For everything else, I run blades. Still waiting to see a pic of this special bend of the cable you talk about.

I use blades or bulbs on all the snakes except the one that doesn't take it. It is a 1/4" cable. I don't own a power spin either :rotflmao:

Blades on 3/8", 1/2", 5/8", 3/4", 7/8" and 1 1/4" depending on conditions.

Mark

only on the 5/16'' cable do i use the factory bulb auger head. the rest all have blade holders. even when i was running drum machines, 3/8'', 1/2'', 5/8'' and 3/4''. they all had blade holders and a hugh assortment of cutters.

the sectional machines have a much broader selection of cutters and unique cutters. just look in a ridgid catalog and compare the choices. there are cutters that are made for sectionals that they don't offer for drums. yet every drum cutter has a sectional counter part.

rick.