- Hello, my name is Dave Schuelke. - And I'm Jim Schuelke. - [Both] We're with TheTwinPlumbers.com. - We're here to talk about
and answer the question, what's the difference between
snaking and hydro jetting? - That's right, so what
we're gonna do today is live here at our training facility, is actually illustrate
first the snaking method. So, Juan, can we go ahead
and show that to 'em, please? - We're ready. - So before we start, I'm
gonna show you exactly what we put into this line,
which is paper products, roots, and sludge. - [Dave] Right, which are the
most common causes of backups. Alright, Juan, let's go
ahead and put it into action. (snake whirring) The end of the cable
right now is currently, it's gone through the paper products, and it's bounded up into the actual roots that are in the line. - [Jim] What's really cool
is that cable's slamming, breaking up that paper product in there, or actually right here. Now the cable's headed
right to the sludge. As you can see, the water
kind of helps pushing and cleaning the drain
all at the same time. - [Dave] Has it come
to the sludge area yet? - Yeah, it's pretty tough, but it's actually fine here on the roots. Well there you have it. So now what happened is
the actual stoppages, which is the roots and the sludge, have hit a fitting, so the stoppage now is gonna take a little bit more effort to go through that actual fitting. - That's right. Alright, well, now that
the cable's gone through the entire length of the pipe, we're gonna go ahead and
extract the cable out, and let's see what the
cable actually retrieved. (cable scratching) Well there you have it, it actually pulled out
more of the paper product than anything else. Obviously if there's
massive roots in that line that are coming in from a break, the cable method's not
going to be as effective, but as you can see it
does a pretty good job with removing that soft stoppage. So now that we've retrieved
the cable from the drain pipe, we're gonna go ahead and
take a really good look and see if the cable left
anything inside the line. Let's go ahead and look at that, Jim. - [Jim] Yep, right here, Dave. - Yeah, as you can see right here, in fact let me get a light, as you can see right here,
it did a pretty good job breaking it down, but it did
leave a lot of the debris left inside the pipe, especially
here at the fitting area. So let's go ahead and see
what hydro jetting does compared to what the cable method did. - Okay, we're gonna go
ahead and demonstrate the hydro jetting process,
but before we do that, I wanted to go over with Juan, our hydro jetting technician here, what hydro jetting is. - Well it's a way to clean the pipe with high pressurized
water at about 4,000 PSI. This particular one shoots
12 gallons a minute. This is called a laser penetrating tip, and it goes down the pipe. We will start whenever you guys are ready. - So Juan, before we start though, as the tip's going down the pipe, is the water blasting in
reverse or blasting forward? - There's one going forward. - Okay. - And there's multiple coming back. - Okay. - Which propels it down the pipe and through the blockage. - Okay, perfect. - For this demonstration, we went ahead and installed some regular toilet paper, as well as roots, and downstream, just like we did the cabling,
we added the sludge as well, so we just wanted to
compare apples to apples, so you can see the difference
in the two different methods. Go ahead, Juan, let's go
ahead and fire that up. - Okay. (water rushing) - Wow. Let' go slow, what I wanna show. So the stoppage is completely
cleared now, bring it back. And you can see here's
the end of it right here with the stoppage completely removed. Yeah, I think you got it, Juan. So as we're removing
the hydro jetting hose, let's go ahead and see what the hydro jetting method left behind. It's spotless. - [Jim] Yeah, it's spotless. - Well, there you have it. So the difference between
cabling and hydro jetting is, what do you think, Jim? - One opens the line. - And the hydro jetting actually
opens and cleans the line. Well, there you have it.
