24/7 Drain Cleaning & Sewer Service in Coral Springs, FL

Coral Ridge Properties drew up Coral Springs as a master-planned city in 1963, with strict landscaping rules, hidden utility lines and neighborhoods built around canals and lakes. Most homes went up between 1970 and 1995.

Homes from the early 1970s, in the eastern neighborhoods near University Drive and Sample Road, often have cast iron drains under the slab. By the late 1970s, builders had largely switched to PVC.

The city's famous tree canopy, including black olives, ficus hedges and oaks planted by the original developer, now shades nearly every street. Those trees are big enough to reach laterals.

Coral Springs sits on fill over a high water table at the edge of the Everglades. Laterals can settle in that fill, and groundwater rises with summer rains.

The city is known for its schools and young families, and many homes have four or five bedrooms, several bathrooms and busy kitchens.

Coral Springs is served by several providers: the City of Coral Springs utility, Coral Springs Improvement District and North Springs Improvement District each cover different areas. Homeowners maintain the line from the house to their provider's main.

From June through October, daily storms and the occasional tropical system raise the water table and test laterals near canals.

Winter is dry and pleasant. Holiday cooking and family gatherings from Thanksgiving through New Year's bring grease clogs.

Coral Springs' first homes, east of Coral Springs Drive and around Sample Road, went up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some have iron drain lines under the slab that have been corroding for half a century. If drains throughout one of these homes are slowing, or a sewer smell lingers in a bedroom, scope the line from the cleanout before the floor starts cracking.

The original developer required trees on every lot, and Coral Springs takes pride in its shaded streets. Black olives, ficus, oaks and royal palms planted in the 1970s and 1980s are now huge, and their roots have found many lateral joints. Cutting roots from inside the pipe keeps the line open, and a liner keeps them out without digging up the landscaping the city protects.

Western neighborhoods like Eagle Trace, Heron Bay and the areas near the Sawgrass Expressway were built from the 1980s through the 2000s with PVC drains. Pipe failure is uncommon. Grease from big family dinners, hair in teenagers' showers and wipes in kids' toilets are behind most calls.

Coral Springs is laced with drainage canals and lakes, and the water table sits close to the surface. In summer it rises further, and cracked laterals take in groundwater. Lots near canals may also have laterals that settled in fill. A camera inspection shows both.

On a Sunday after a big family dinner, a household in a 1979 home near Mullins Park finds the kitchen sink backed up and the hall toilet gurgling. The plumber clears the main from a cleanout by the driveway, cutting a dense root mass from a black olive tree about thirty feet out, then jets the kitchen branch to remove the grease.

Coral Springs homes are built for families, often with four or five bedrooms. More bathrooms mean more hair and more chances for a child to flush something. Hair catchers, trash cans in every bathroom and a lidded grease can by the stove prevent most calls.

Restaurants along University Drive, around Coral Square and in the city's growing downtown near City Hall serve busy family crowds on weekends. Commercial kitchens need interceptors pumped and lines jetted on a fixed schedule.

Buyers moving in for the schools increasingly ask for a sewer camera inspection. A clean report helps the sale, and catching roots or an early iron line before listing lets sellers fix it on their own schedule.

Tropical systems and summer downpours can overload mains. If gray water rises in a tub or floor drain during heavy rain, wait for the storm to pass and consider a backwater valve.

Ramblewood, Maplewood, Running Brook and the central neighborhoods filled in during the late 1970s and 1980s. Most homes there have PVC under the slab, but the trees planted along their sidewalks are now forty years old. Roots typically enter at the joint where the lateral meets the city connection near the street, so a clog thirty to fifty feet out is a classic sign.

Give your neighborhood and the home's age, which district serves you and whether a big tree sits near the sewer path. Mention whether one fixture or the whole house is affected and whether the line has been cut for roots before.