Gene's Plumbing handles drain cleaning across New Orleans and the surrounding area — licensed, insured and available for emergencies.
A slow drain in New Orleans is a warning, and a backed-up one is the same problem a few months later. Clearing it is straightforward; finding out why it clogged is what stops it repeating.
Most drain cleaning calls in New Orleans arrive later than they should have. There is a sign first — a sound, a smell, a bill that crept up, a stain that was not there last month — and the repair stays small for exactly as long as it takes somebody to act on it.
So a New Orleans visit starts with finding out what is actually happening before anything is opened up or torn out. You get the diagnosis, a price for the drain cleaning work, and a plain answer about whether it needs doing now or can reasonably wait.
How the job actually runs, start to finish.
The first conversation is about how urgent it really is. Some things need a truck tonight and some can wait until Tuesday, and you get told which yours is.
Finding the real cause is what keeps the repair small. Opening one square foot of wall instead of twenty starts with knowing exactly where to open it.
You get a number for the repair before a wrench moves, and it holds. No hourly meter running while you stand in the doorway watching.
Drop cloths go down first and the area gets left clean. Old tanks, fixtures and cut-out pipe leave with the truck.
The questions homeowners ask about this one.
It depends on what the diagnosis turns up, which is why you get a firm price for your drain cleaning job in New Orleans before any work starts rather than an hourly rate that runs while you wait.
You get a straight answer on that. Plenty of New Orleans customers are told their drain cleaning situation can reasonably wait a season, and plenty are told it cannot. The diagnosis decides it, not the sales value.
Yes. drain cleaning in New Orleans is done by a licensed, insured plumbing contractor who pulls whatever permits your municipality requires, and the licence number is on your invoice.
Anything actively leaking or backing up is treated as same-day in New Orleans. Scheduled drain cleaning work is usually booked within two or three business days.
Feedback from customers who had this work done.
"Water heater let go on a Sunday morning and flooded half the basement. Had someone here inside two hours, new tank in by afternoon, and he hauled the old one off. Price was what he said on the phone."
"Got a quote elsewhere for a full repipe at five figures. Second opinion here found two bad sections and a pressure regulator. Cost me a fraction of the first number."
"Old cast iron stack was leaking behind the wall. They cut it out and put in new, and were careful about dust with plastic and a fan. That mattered with a baby in the house."