24/7 Drain Cleaning & Sewer Service in West Jordan, UT

Old West Jordan, near the Jordan River and the original town center, has homes from the 1900s through the 1960s, some with clay or cast iron lines.

Neighborhoods built from the 1970s through the 1990s east of Bangerter Highway have ramblers, split-levels and two-stories with basements.

West of Bangerter, toward the Oquirrh Mountains, most homes were built since the 2000s with finished basements and PVC drains.

Many homes have basement bathrooms served by ejector pumps.

West Jordan sits on the valley floor and benches west of the Jordan River, with cold winters and hot, dry summers.

The City of West Jordan's Public Works department runs the city's sewer collection system, and the South Valley Water Reclamation Facility treats the wastewater. West Jordan homeowners maintain the private lateral from the house to the city sewer.

Holiday gatherings and big family meals bring kitchen clogs, and summer heat drives roots toward water in older neighborhoods.

When an inversion parks cold air over the southwest valley for a week, garage laundries and pipes in outside walls can freeze.

West Jordan began as a farming community along the Jordan River, with a sugar factory and small town center. The oldest homes near the river and the original town have clay or cast iron lines and mature trees. Roots and scale are common there.

From the 1970s onward, West Jordan grew rapidly as families moved to the southwest valley. Neighborhoods east of Bangerter Highway filled in through the 1990s, and since then development has spread west toward the mountains. Most homes have full basements, many finished, and PVC drains.

Many West Jordan homes have basement bathrooms set below the sewer, drained by an ejector pump in a sealed basin. Wipes, paper towels and toys jam the pump, or the float sticks, and the basement bathroom backs up. Pumps last ten to fifteen years. A quick press of the alarm test button each season and a trash can beside the basement toilet head off most of those calls.

West Jordan households are large, and busy kitchens and kids' bathrooms produce most clogs. Grease, rice, wipes and toys are the usual culprits. A grease container, a sink strainer and a trash can in every bathroom go a long way.

On a Sunday evening, a family in a 2006 two-story west of Bangerter hears the ejector alarm and finds water around the basement toilet. The plumber opens the basin and finds the float stuck on a tangle of wipes. After clearing it and replacing the worn float switch, the bathroom works again.

Neighborhoods built in the 1970s and 1980s east of Bangerter have trees now forty to fifty years old, and their roots find cracked joints in early plastic or clay laterals. Root cutting and lining keep those lines open.

West Jordan winters bring inversions and cold snaps. Pipes in garages, exterior walls and unfinished basement corners freeze first. A closed garage door and a little foam insulation on exposed lines usually prevent it.

New subdivisions keep going up on the west side, and plumbers sometimes find construction debris in new lines or sags where backfill settled. If a home under a year old has drain problems, check with the builder.

Jordan Landing and the busy corridors along Redwood Road and 7800 South have many family restaurants. Kitchens there keep grease traps pumped on schedule.

Finished basements are standard in West Jordan, and a backup can ruin carpet, drywall and furniture. Keep the cleanout accessible when finishing a basement, and consider a backwater valve.

Some basement remodels cover the floor drain entirely, which means a backup has nowhere to go but across the floor.

West Jordan's water is hard, and scale builds up in kitchen and laundry lines. Jetting clears it along with grease.

Starchy foods sent down the disposal, like rice and potato peels, build up downstream with grease. Use the disposal sparingly and run cold water.

Old West Jordan and the neighborhoods along the Jordan River Parkway sit on lower ground where groundwater rises in spring. Cracked laterals take in water there, and some older homes with basements see seepage through the walls as well. A sump pump and a sealed lateral keep most of those basements dry.

West of Bangerter, homes climb gentle benches toward the Oquirrh Mountains on fill and native soil that can settle after construction. A sewer line laid in a poorly compacted trench may sag a few years later, creating a low spot where grease and paper collect. A camera inspection shows the sag, and a spot repair usually fixes it for good.

Many West Jordan residents commute to Salt Lake, the airport or Silicon Slopes, and mornings in a big household mean several showers, a load of laundry and a dishwasher running within an hour. A partly blocked lateral that copes during the day can overflow during that rush.

Because of the hard water, many West Jordan homes have water softeners that flush brine into a basement drain during regeneration. If a laundry standpipe or floor drain overflows at night, the softener discharge may be the cause rather than a clogged main.

Share the neighborhood, the home's age, whether the basement is finished and whether there's an ejector pump. Mention any alarm sounding.