Drain & Sewer Service
in Great Kills
Great Kills is South Shore Staten Island at its most suburban — detached houses, driveways, mature trees, and a harbor that makes storms personal.
The housing stock decides the problem
Mostly post-war detached and semi-detached single-family homes, many on mid-century clay sewer laterals running long distances under front yards and driveways to the street main.
Roots, and the long lateral they have to travel
A Great Kills house often sits well back from the street, which means a long lateral passing under a lawn full of mature tree roots. Clay pipe joints leak just enough moisture to attract them, and once roots are in, they return on a seasonal cycle. The real question isn't whether to clear them — it's whether the pipe is sound enough to keep maintaining or damaged enough to justify repair, and only a camera answers that honestly.
Storm surge and low-lying blocks
Blocks near the harbor and the creeks know what a nor'easter does to a basement. Clearing house drains and site drains before storm season is cheap insurance, and where the water is coming back through the sewer rather than the ground, a backwater valve is the fix worth discussing.
Most-called services in Great Kills
Main Sewer Jetting
High-pressure water jetting that scours the main line clean — not just a hole poked through the clog.
Learn more →Sewer Camera Inspection
See exactly what's in your line before anyone quotes you a number. You get the footage.
Learn more →Exterior & Site Drains
Yard, area and courtyard drains that turn into lakes every time it rains.
Learn more →Streets & areas we cover
Straight answers
Roots keep coming back in my Great Kills sewer line. Cut them again or replace the pipe?
Roots keep coming back in my sewer line. Cut them again or fix the pipe?
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Sewage doesn’t keep
business hours. Neither do we.
Nights, weekends, holidays — the emergency line rings a dispatcher, not a voicemail.