Drain Cleaning in Five Points, Denver CO 80205
- ZIP 80205
- RiNo
- Curtis Park
- Residential and commercial
Five Points is the one part of our service area where a commercial kitchen and a Victorian house can share a block and sometimes a sewer main. That mix produces a wider range of drain problems than anywhere else we work.
Call (720) 794-0974Restaurant or residential, the grease load decides the cleaning cycle. Call and describe the setup.
Call (720) 794-0974Drain problems we see in Five Points and RiNo
Restaurant and brewery grease lines
RiNo's food and drink density has grown enormously, and grease is the defining commercial drain problem here.
Kitchen waste goes down warm and liquid, cools in the horizontal run and sets on the pipe wall. In a commercial kitchen that happens fast, and a line that gets cabled clear reopens a channel through a pipe that is still lined with grease. It blocks again on a predictable cycle, usually shorter each time.
This is the clearest case for hydro jetting in our whole service area. Jetting scours the pipe wall rather than punching through, and on a grease-loaded commercial line the difference in how long it lasts is substantial.
Curtis Park's original housing
A block or two away the picture is completely different. Curtis Park holds some of Denver's oldest surviving residential stock, much of it 1870s to 1890s, on original clay laterals under mature trees. Root intrusion and century-old cast iron stacks, not grease.
Old commercial buildings converted to residential
A significant amount of RiNo housing is converted warehouse and light industrial space. Those buildings were plumbed for a completely different use, and residential fixtures have often been added to lines never designed for them. Floor drains that were once industrial, unusual routing, and cleanouts in places nobody expects.
Shared and mixed-use lines
Where residential units sit above ground-floor commercial space, the two frequently share a lateral. A restaurant's grease load and an apartment's waste going down the same pipe is a combination that produces recurring problems and some awkward conversations about responsibility.
A jetted grease line. Commercial kitchens coat rather than plug. Cabling reopens a channel; jetting cleans the wall.
Recognise any of that? Describe what your drain is doing and we will tell you which one it sounds like, on (720) 794-0974.
Services that fit these homes
Hydro jetting
For grease-loaded commercial lines. This is the neighborhood where jetting most often genuinely is the right answer rather than the more expensive one.
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Drain cleaning
Across both the residential and commercial side.
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Emergency drain service
Matters more for a business than a home. A blocked line in a working kitchen is not an inconvenience, it is a closed kitchen.
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Sewer camera inspection
Particularly in converted buildings where nobody has documentation of how the drains were run.
See sewer camera inspection →Other areas we cover
Same drains, different lines. If you are near Five Points but not listed, call and ask. It takes ten seconds to check.
If you run a business in RiNo
The economics of a drain line are different for you than for a homeowner.
A residential customer weighing cabling against jetting is comparing two prices. You are comparing a cheaper method that has you closed again in eight weeks against a more expensive one that does not. That usually changes the answer, and it is worth working out what your actual re-block interval has been rather than guessing.
We will also be straight with you about what jetting will not fix. If the line has a structural problem, or the grease load genuinely exceeds what any cleaning cycle can keep up with, cleaning more often is not the solution and we will say so.
Where we work in Five Points
Five Points, RiNo and Curtis Park
ZIP codes covered- 80205
- 80216
- Named areas
- RiNo, River North, Curtis Park, Whittier, City Park West
- Housing
- 1870s to 1890s Victorian stock plus converted warehouse space
- Usual cause
- Commercial grease loading, and root intrusion in the older residential lines
RiNo and Curtis Park sit within this page's coverage. Capitol Hill is south, Highlands west across the interstate, and Central Park east.
You'll know the price before we start
We look at the problem first, explain what's involved, and give you the price. Work only begins after you say yes.
Call (720) 794-0974Five Points questions
Our restaurant line blocks every couple of months. Is that normal?
It is common, but it is not something you have to accept. A short re-block interval usually means the pipe is coated rather than plugged, and cabling reopens a channel through grease that is still there. Jetting addresses the wall. Working out your actual interval is the useful first step.
Do you handle commercial as well as residential here?
Yes, and Five Points is where we do most of it. Commercial lines carry a different load and usually need a different cleaning method and cycle. Tell us the type of business and roughly how often it has been blocking.
My building is a converted warehouse. Where would the cleanout be?
Frequently not where residential instinct suggests. Converted industrial buildings often have floor drains and access points from the original use, and residential fixtures added later onto existing runs. A camera and locator sorts it out faster than guesswork.
Who is responsible when a shop and the apartments above share a line?
Usually the building owner, since the shared lateral serves the whole building rather than one tenancy. Lease terms and any association documents can change that. Worth establishing before a blockage rather than during one.
Get a price for your Five Points drain
Tell us the Five Points address, which fixtures are affected and roughly when the building went up. That is usually enough for us to say whether you are looking at a branch line or the main sewer lateral before anyone is on site.
We look at the problem first, explain what clearing it involves, and give you the price. Work only begins after you say yes.
- Which fixture, and what else is affected
- Whether the property is residential or food service
- Whether an accessible cleanout exists
- The price before any work starts
Call about a Five Points drain
Tell us whether it is residential or commercial, what the line is doing, and how often it has blocked before.
Call (720) 794-0974