What’s Hiding in Your Pipes? The Truth About What We Find During Jetting
What’s Hiding in Your Pipes?
The Truth About What We Find During Jetting
If you’ve never had your sewer lines cleaned, chances are… they’re hiding something.
At C&C Environmental Services, we’ve seen it all — and we mean everything. As a hydro jetting company serving Thomasville, High Point, Trinity, and the surrounding Piedmont region, we spend our days sending 4,000 PSI of water through pipes that haven’t been cleaned in decades.
Here are some of the most common — and surprising — things we’ve found hiding in people’s sewer lines.
🌳Tree Roots (The Sneakiest Invader)
Small hair-like roots slip into joints or cracks, then expand into a tangled mat that catches everything. Left untreated, they cause backups that can damage your lawn, flooring, and foundation.
We cut and flush roots clean with a specialized root-cutting nozzle.
🧼Grease Blobs & Soap Sludge
Even if you never pour grease down the drain, it builds up over time from everyday cooking. Add soap scum, food particles, and body oils and you’ve got a thick “sludge ring” clinging to your pipe walls.
This is one of the biggest causes of slow drains and foul odors.
🧸Jewelry, Toys, and… False Teeth?
Yup. In more than one case, we’ve jetted lines only to find necklaces, flip phones, Hot Wheels, dentures, and once… a plastic dinosaur head.
We don’t guarantee we’ll find your lost items, but we have returned some over the years.
🐀Signs of Rodent Activity
It’s not common, but in older or cracked clay systems, we’ve come across signs that rodents had passed through — usually identified by debris or nests clogging lateral lines.
We always recommend a camera inspection when something doesn’t feel right.
💩Literal Mountains of Waste
Sometimes, the buildup is just… years of waste. We’ve jet-cleaned lines where solid waste was packed 90% of the way across the pipe diameter.
People were still flushing, not realizing that a complete clog was just days away.
Why It Matters
It’s not about being gross — it’s about being prepared.
Your sewer line is out of sight, but when it fails, it’s an emergency. Scheduling a jetting and inspection every 1–2 years keeps you ahead of problems, reduces emergency costs, and gives peace of mind.
Serving the Piedmont Triad:
We perform jetting, inspections, and cleanouts in Thomasville, Lexington, High Point, Trinity, and nearby towns.