Yes. Commercial drain and rooter work is a distinct service from residential, and we scope it that way — different equipment, different scheduling constraints, and a maintenance interval set by what your business actually puts down the drain.
Why Commercial Lines Fail Faster
A house runs its kitchen sink a dozen times a day. A Fredericksburg restaurant runs it continuously through a dinner service, sends grease down the line, and cycles a dish machine at 180 degrees.
That volume compresses the failure timeline dramatically. Problems that take fifteen years to develop in a home appear in three in a commercial building.
Grease is the dominant issue. It goes down warm and liquid, cools, and congeals on the pipe wall — building layer by layer until the effective diameter is a fraction of what it should be.
Cabling Versus Jetting
For commercial grease lines, this distinction matters more than anywhere else.
A cable bores through the blockage and restores flow. If the pipe wall is coated in congealed grease, that channel closes again quickly — sometimes within weeks in a heavy-use kitchen.
Hydrojetting scours the pipe wall back toward bare surface with high-pressure water and flushes the debris out. It restores full diameter rather than a channel.
For a restaurant, jetting on a schedule is genuinely preventive. Cabling reactively is a treadmill.
Scheduling Around Your Business
For a commercial property, the invoice is rarely the largest number. The closure is.
A sewer backup during Saturday lunch does not cost you a drain cleaning. It costs the covers you could not seat, the food you discarded, the staff you paid to stand around, and a run of reviews that outlast the incident by years. A health inspection during a backup is worse.
So we schedule around your operation — before opening, after closing, or on your slow day. Emergency dispatch runs around the clock, because backups do not respect business hours.
Property Types We Work With
Restaurants and commercial kitchens. Grease management, scheduled jetting, and grease interceptor service coordination.
Hotels and lodging. High-volume fixture use and guest-impact urgency.
Wineries and tasting rooms. Seasonal volume swings and event schedules that cannot move.
Retail and office. Lower volume, but restroom lines that cannot be out of service during business hours.
Medical and dental. Compliance and documentation requirements alongside the plumbing work.
Diagnosing Rather Than Guessing
On a recurring commercial problem, we camera the line before proposing anything.
A drain that will not stay clear could be grease coating, root intrusion, a bellied section holding water, an offset joint, or scale. Those are different problems with different repairs, and they are indistinguishable from the fixture.
A sewer camera inspection shows which one you have and locates it precisely — which matters for cost, because knowing a problem sits at eighteen feet rather than somewhere in a sixty-foot run is the difference between a targeted repair and opening the whole line.
Documentation
Commercial properties often need to prove maintenance happened. Insurance carriers ask after a loss. Leases assign responsibility to landlord or tenant, and a service record is what settles the argument. Health inspectors ask about grease management.
Every visit produces a written report with findings and recommended actions.
One Vendor for the Building
Most of our commercial clients run drains, plumbing, and HVAC through a single agreement. Because we also provide commercial plumbers and commercial HVAC services, that means one schedule and one point of contact.
It also closes the gap around shared systems — condensate drains from rooftop units tie into your drain system, and when the building is split between two vendors that connection tends to be nobody’s responsibility.
Setting Up a Schedule
We walk the property, camera the main lines, and propose an interval based on your actual usage rather than a default. Details are on our sewer and drain services and drain cleaning pages.
Contact 72 Degrees or call (830) 240-1835.
