When the clog
keeps coming back
Some drains do not need cleaning again. They need the thing that keeps catching debris found and fixed — a cracked section, a belly holding water, an offset joint, or roots that got in through one.
Signs the pipe itself is the problem
If any of these describe your line, more cleaning is money spent on the same afternoon over and over.
It clogs again within months
A properly cleared line should stay clear. One that does not is catching debris on something structural.
Roots in what came out
Roots do not enter a sound pipe. They find a crack or a separated joint, and they will keep coming back to it.
A soggy or unusually green patch in the yard
A drain line leaking underground waters the ground above it. It is often the first visible sign.
The line clears then re-blocks fast
Classic belly — a sag holding standing water where solids settle out every time.
Sewer smell outdoors
A cracked or separated line venting where it should not be.
Older home, original drain lines
Decades of ground movement under a Boerne home takes a toll on joints that were fine when they went in.
How a repair gets scoped
Nobody should open ground on a guess. The point of the first visit is knowing exactly where and exactly what.
We confirm it is structural
Behaviour of the line, what comes out of it, and where the trouble sits. Cleaning is ruled in or out first.
We locate the fault
Where along the run, how deep, and what is actually wrong — crack, belly, offset, crush or roots.
You get the scope and the price
What has to be opened, what gets replaced, how long, and what the ground looks like afterwards. Approved before we dig.
We repair and reinstate
Section replaced or repaired, line tested, and the ground put back rather than left as a scar.
Drain Repair
Repairing the cause rather than renting the symptom
A recurring drain clog is one of the few plumbing problems where the cheap option is genuinely more expensive. Three or four clearing visits in a year cost more than the repair, and you still have the damaged pipe at the end of it.
We are straight about which situation you are in, partly because it is right and partly because we live here. Selling somebody the same visit four times is not a business model that survives in a town this size.
- Cracked, crushed and separated drain lines
- Bellies and sags that hold standing water
- Offset joints from ground movement
- Root intrusion — and the entry point that let them in
- Section replacement rather than wholesale replacement where possible
- Line tested after repair, not just closed up
- Ground reinstated when we are done
The clay under your yard moves every year
Expansive clay is the defining soil problem across this part of Texas. It swells when it is wet and shrinks hard through drought, and it does that around whatever is buried in it. Drain lines are rigid; the ground is not.
Over enough seasons, that movement pulls joints apart, drops sags into runs that were laid flat, and opens the hairline cracks roots find. It is the single most common reason a Boerne-area drain line goes from fine to problematic without anybody doing anything wrong.
Cleared it twice already?
That is usually the line telling you it needs a repair, not a third cleaning.
Drain Repair questions
Still not sure?
Describe it on the phone and we'll tell you straight whether it needs us.
If a properly cleared line blocks again within a few months, or roots keep appearing, the pipe itself is the problem. Cleaning treats the symptom; repair addresses what keeps causing it.
Sometimes, depending on where the fault is and what it is. We locate it precisely first so that anything we open is as small as it can be, and we put the ground back afterwards.
Mostly ground movement. Expansive clay swells and shrinks through our wet and dry cycles, which pulls joints apart and drops sags into buried lines. Roots then find those openings.
Roots rarely break a sound pipe. They find an existing crack or separated joint, get in where there is water, and then expand. Which is why we look for the entry point rather than just clearing the roots.
Yes, contact Pulliam Plumbing Services and receive your free estimate.
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