- 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.