24/7 Drain Cleaning & Sewer Service in Murfreesboro, TN

The neighborhoods around the historic courthouse square and East Main Street have homes from the 1850s through the 1940s, many on crawlspaces with clay or cast iron laterals.

Neighborhoods near Middle Tennessee State University were built from the 1950s through the 1970s with ranches, many now rented to students.

Most of Murfreesboro, from Blackman to the Gateway area and out toward Christiana and Lascassas, was built since the 1990s with slab homes and PVC drains.

Rutherford County sits on thin soil over limestone, with cedar glades, caves and sinkholes.

Many residents commute to Nashville, and the city's population is young, with lots of families and MTSU students.

Murfreesboro Water Resources runs the city's sewer system and the Sinking Creek treatment plant, with some outlying areas served by Consolidated Utility District. Murfreesboro homeowners own the private service line from the house to the public sewer.

Spring storms soak the thin soil and can open sinkholes, and August move-in fills MTSU rentals.

Winters are mild with occasional ice storms that freeze garage and crawlspace pipes.

Murfreesboro was briefly Tennessee's capital, and the neighborhoods around the historic courthouse square have antebellum and Victorian homes, along with bungalows from the early 1900s. Many sit on crawlspaces, and their clay or cast iron laterals are old. Big oaks and maples send roots into the joints, and rock near the surface makes repairs harder.

Middle Tennessee State University is one of the largest universities in the state, and the neighborhoods around it have many ranch homes and duplexes rented to students. Several tenants push heavy loads through lines that are fifty to seventy years old. Hair, grease and wipes are the usual culprits. Landlords who jet lines in summer avoid many fall emergencies.

Murfreesboro has added tens of thousands of homes since 2000, with subdivisions spreading in every direction. New homes have PVC drains on slab foundations. Most calls there come from grease, wipes and kids' bathrooms, along with the occasional construction debris left in a new line.

Rutherford County is known for its cedar glades, rocky openings where limestone lies right at the surface. Even where there's soil, rock is often just a foot or two down. Sewer lines are laid shallow or cut into rock, and sinkholes can open where water dissolves the limestone. Trenchless repair is often the practical choice.

In August, a young family in a 2015 slab home in Blackman finds the kitchen sink and dishwasher backing up the night before school starts. The plumber clears the kitchen line and pulls out a plug of grease and rice about ten feet in. Jetting scrubs the pipe, and the family starts scraping plates into the trash.

Some Murfreesboro neighborhoods, especially newer ones on rocky or uneven ground, use grinder pumps in the yard to push waste into a pressure sewer. If the pump fails or wipes jam it, the house backs up. Keep wipes out of toilets, know where the alarm panel is and call for service as soon as it sounds.

The Stones River and its forks wind through Murfreesboro, and Sinking Creek gets its name from the way it disappears into the limestone. Low areas near the river and creeks have higher groundwater after storms, and cracked lines there take in water.

Many Murfreesboro residents commute to Nashville, and busy schedules mean quick dinners and quick cleanup. Grease poured down the sink is one of the most common causes of kitchen clogs in newer homes. A grease can and a sink strainer go a long way.

The Avenue Murfreesboro, Medical Center Parkway, Old Fort Parkway and the square have a lot of restaurants. Busy kitchens keep running smoothly by pumping interceptors on schedule.

Ranches built from the 1950s through the 1970s, near MTSU and along Memorial Boulevard and Northfield, have cast iron and clay laterals that are now aging. Scale, roots and cracks are common.

Many of these homes sit on crawlspaces, and in the humid summers the cast iron under the floor rusts from the outside as well as scaling inside. A plumber clearing the main can take a quick look at those lines too.

Rural parts of Rutherford County, and some neighborhoods just outside city limits, use septic systems. On thin soil over limestone, drain fields can struggle, and a full tank can look like a clog. If you're on septic, let the plumber know so they bring the right equipment.

Murfreesboro winters are mild, but occasional ice storms and arctic blasts freeze pipes in garages and crawlspaces. Insulate exposed pipe and let a faucet drip on the coldest nights.

Share the neighborhood and the home's age, whether it's a rental, whether it's on a slab or crawlspace and whether there's a grinder pump. Mention which drains are affected.