Done primarily serves residential customers throughout the Denver metro and Front Range, so if you’re looking for help at your home — including rentals, townhomes, and condos — we’re absolutely the right call. For large-scale commercial facilities such as restaurants, office complexes, or multi-story apartment buildings, our residential drain and plumbing teams are best suited for owner-occupied and single-family residential work. That said, we encourage you to reach out and describe your situation, because smaller commercial or mixed-use properties often fall within the scope of what our crews handle every day.

What Our Drain Cleaning Services Cover

For residential and residential-adjacent customers, Done offers a full range of drain and sewer services. That includes standard drain cleaning for kitchen sinks, bathroom drains, tub and shower drains, floor drains, and main sewer lines. We also offer hydro jetting — a high-pressure water cleaning method that clears grease, mineral scale, and root intrusion more thoroughly than a cable snake alone — as well as sewer camera inspections, pipe lining, and sewer line repair and replacement.

Colorado’s hard water leaves mineral deposits inside pipes over time, and the clay and expansive soils common across the Front Range can shift and crack older sewer lines. Tree root intrusion is a frequent culprit in established Denver neighborhoods where mature cottonwood and elm trees have had decades to send roots toward sewer lines. Our crews know these patterns and come equipped to handle them.

Rooter Service: What It Means and When You Need It

The term “rooter” comes from the original use of powered cable machines to cut through tree roots in drain lines — the same equipment that evolved into today’s drain snake or auger. When a cable machine is run through a blocked drain, it physically breaks up the obstruction (roots, grease, soap scum, debris) and restores flow. Rooter service is appropriate when you have a slow drain, a complete blockage, or recurring clogs that liquid drain cleaners haven’t fixed.

Store-bought chemical drain cleaners can temporarily restore flow in minor clogs, but they are often ineffective against solid obstructions and can damage older pipes with repeated use. A professional rooter service addresses the actual blockage rather than just masking it.

When to Consider Hydro Jetting Instead

A cable machine clears a path through a clog, but it doesn’t clean the pipe walls. Hydro jetting uses water pressure (typically 3,000–4,000 PSI or more) to scour the interior of the pipe, removing grease buildup, mineral scale, and fine root tendrils that a snake leaves behind. This makes hydro jetting the better long-term solution for chronically slow drains and for lines that have recurring grease accumulation.

  • Drain snake/rooter: best for a single solid blockage, first response to a clog
  • Hydro jetting: best for recurring clogs, grease buildup, root-infested lines, or pre-lining prep
  • Camera inspection: recommended when the cause of a clog is unknown or recurrent
  • Pipe lining or repair: necessary when the pipe itself is cracked, offset, or badly root-damaged

Emergency Drain Cleaning

Drain backups rarely happen at convenient times. If you’re dealing with sewage backing up into a floor drain, a main line that’s completely blocked, or a kitchen sink that’s dead before a family gathering, Done offers emergency drain cleaning services. Our team can respond quickly to get your home back to normal.

What to Expect During a Service Visit

When Done arrives for a drain cleaning call, the visit starts with a conversation about what you’re experiencing — which drain, how long it’s been slow, whether other fixtures are affected, and whether the problem is recurring. That information shapes the diagnostic approach before any equipment goes into the pipe. For straightforward clogs, the fix is often quick. For more complex situations — a main line with multiple slow drains, or a recurring kitchen clog that’s been cleared before — a camera inspection is the next step to identify the root cause rather than clearing the symptom and leaving the underlying condition unaddressed.

After the work is done, Done’s technicians walk you through what was found, note any conditions — aging pipe, significant root intrusion, mineral scale buildup — that may warrant future attention, and make sure you understand the state of your drain system before they leave.

For urgent situations, visit our emergency drain cleaning page or call us directly. For routine drain cleaning or to schedule a sewer camera inspection, our drain cleaning page has everything you need to get started. We also offer hydro jetting for lines that need a deeper clean.