Hydro Jetting Service by Titan Plumbing and Electric. Corbin walks through a real Tampa hydro-jetting job. Camera-locating the buildup of caking inside a sewer line that was causing recurring clogs, then high-PSI jetting the line clean and confirming clear flow with a follow-up camera pass.
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Hey guys, it's Corbin with Titan Plumbing and Electric, and today we're out here at this property doing a hydro jetting. We're going to pressure-wash the inside of this line and get it real nice and clean and pop a clog. The customer called us out here because they were experiencing clogs. We stuck the camera down the line and we realized that the reason why they were having clogs is because over time the sewage running through the pipe will create a caking inside the pipe, and it can clog up the pipe and stop proper flow. What the jetter does is we have a high PSI. It goes inside the pipe, and as we push it through and pull it in and out, it's going to clean out and pressure-wash the inside of that line, removing the caking and allowing the pipe to flow freely. Before we do the hydro jetting, we're going to stick our camera in here, and as you can see the pipe is dirty. It's got a lot of caking on it and it's kind of clogged up. So we're going to go ahead and stick the jetter in there and clean it out. As you can see, the pipe is clear of all the caking. It's much cleaner now. The clog is gone and the customer is very happy.
Hydro Jetting Service by Titan Plumbing and Electric — Tampa Drain & Sewer Walkthrough
Corbin walks through a real Tampa hydro-jetting job. Camera-locating the buildup of caking inside a sewer line that was causing recurring clogs, then high-PSI jetting the line clean and confirming clear flow with a follow-up camera pass.
Most repeat clogs in Tampa Bay homes trace back to grease in kitchen branches, root intrusion at clay-tile sewer laterals, and old galvanized lines that have lost their inside diameter to scale. A cable will punch a hole through a clog and buy you a few weeks; hydro jetting and a camera locate fix the underlying cause. The video above shows the difference in real time.
In this clip: Hey guys, it's Corbin with Titan Plumbing and Electric, and today we're out here at this property doing a hydro jetting.
Why Tampa drains clog the way they do
Tampa Bay's mid-century housing stock leans heavily on clay-tile sewer laterals — joints every five feet, just enough gap for tree roots to find. Once roots are inside the pipe, every flush slows them down a little less. By the time the homeowner calls us, the clog has usually become a recurring problem, and a snake just punches through what will close again in a month.
Newer homes don't have the root problem, but they do have grease problems. Long branch lines from the kitchen sink to the main stack accumulate cooled grease at the cooler sections of the pipe — typically the wall behind the dishwasher and again at the basement-stack tie-in. A camera shows the grease layer, the jetter cuts it back to bare pipe.
How we approach a recurring clog
Camera first. Always. Without a camera, you're guessing about the clog type, the pipe material, and the location — three things that change the right tool. The camera locates the failure, identifies the pipe (clay vs cast iron vs PVC), and tells us whether jetting is appropriate (yes for most modern pipe; cast-iron with active corrosion gets a gentler treatment).
After the jet, we run a follow-up camera pass to confirm the line is clear. If the clog turned out to be structural — a collapsed section, an offset joint — we write up a trenchless point-repair quote on the spot.
- Camera locate before any cabling or jetting
- Jetter at 3,500–4,000 PSI for mainline clears
- Follow-up camera pass to confirm clear
- Documented quote if the issue is structural
In this video
6 chapters
- 0:00 Corbin intros today's hydro jetting job
- 0:15 Why the customer called. Caking causing clogs
- 0:31 How the high-PSI jetter cleans the line
- 0:46 Camera inspection BEFORE the jet
- 1:02 Camera inspection AFTER the jet
- 1:17 Result: clear flow, happy customer
Key takeaways
What this video covers in plain English
Most repeat clogs in Tampa Bay homes share three causes. The video shows one of them in action; these takeaways help you identify which one is actually behind your recurring problem.
- Tree-root intrusion is the #1 cause of recurring clogs in clay-tile sewer laterals
- Grease buildup at long kitchen branches is the #2 cause in newer homes
- A camera locate before any cabling tells you which problem you have
- Hydro jetting clears scale and roots that a cable just punches through
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