Effective Drain Cleaning in Fairbanks, AK for Lasting Convenience
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Effective Drain Cleaning for Lasting Convenience
Drains make residential and commercial buildings hygienic and safe to use. They also make cleaning convenient as you can wash utensils, bathe, and even flush the toilet. The dirty liquids then drain into sewage lines.
You have a severe problem on your hands when your sink or tub doesn’t drain at all. You’ll need emergency drain cleaning if your drain lines are clogged and can’t pass waste liquids. Prospector Plumbing is your best bet for drain cleaning and clog removal.
When Do You Need to Restore Drain Functionality?
It would help if you restored drain functionality immediately when you notice problems with drainage or flow. Drains will continually clog over time, but effective maintenance helps keep them clear. Effective cleaning restores drain functionality. You won’t have to keep boiling water to unclog greasy sinks.
You must inspect and clean your drains when:
- There’s a stench coming from your drains
- Your sinks and showers are draining slowly
- Your sinks and showers are fully blocked
- Your drains make gurgling sounds
- Sinks flood when you flush the toilet
- Your toilet floods when flushing
- Your toilet’s water level is inconsistent

Why Do Drain Clogs Require Urgent Drain Cleaning?
Upholding Your Health and Hygiene
Preventing More Damage
Drain clogs can spin out of control real quick. A partial block can prevent subsequent solids from passing, and accumulation follows.
It’s easier to treat one partial clog earlier than a later, full-blown block in all your drain lines. The urgency increases when dealing with frozen drains, which could rupture anytime if you keep using them while frozen.
How Does Prospector Plumbing Inspect Drain Lines for Clogs?
Different clogs call for unique unblocking methods. We try to unclog your drains cost-effectively. For that to happen, we start with a thorough, non-invasive inspection of your drains. We don’t speculate because it wastes time and money.
Our experts don’t prefer excavating to unearth the problem in your drain lines. Excavation takes time and upheaves structures on your property, thus raising your costs due to the need for unnecessary repairs.
Instead, we take an inside look at the condition of your pipes and sewer lines. Prospector Plumbing invests in superior drain-inspection technologies. We insert waterproof cameras in troublesome drain lines to get an inside look at exactly what’s going on.
This technique allows our plumbers to identify:
- The cause of clogging
- The size of a clog
- The exact location of a clog

What Kinds of Drains Do We Clean?
- Bathroom and kitchen sink drains
- Perimeter drains
- Toilet drains
- Tub and shower drains
- Utility drains
What Are Some Cost-Effective Methods of Unclogging Blocked Drains?
Snaking
We use this method when clearing debris and hair blocking kitchen sinks and bathtubs. We insert a coiled metal wire down the drain and rotate it to dislodge the clog. The clog collapses and the debris flows away.
Snaking is excellent for dispelling solid clogs, but it doesn’t completely clean your drains. For long-lasting maintenance of your drains, we combine this method with hydro-jetting.
Rooter Service
We use this method when tree roots grow into your sewer line and perforate your drain lines, in which case a repair is necessary.
Rooting involves snaking blades into the affected drains and cutting off the invasive tree roots. If the roots are stubborn, we opt for root-killing chemicals. However, chemicals are always a last resort in light of our eco-friendly policies.
This process is sensitive, but we only work with well-trained plumbers. Inexperienced technicians could rapture your plumbing lines.
Hydro-Jetting
We use hydro-jetting to unclog greasy kitchen sinks. This method applies to most industrial kitchens with very greasy sinks. Snaking can’t clear insolvent substances, but high-pressure jets of water can clear away such build-ups.
This method scrubs your drain pipes, clearing away:
- Grease
- Sand and silt
- Hard water scales
- Soap scum
In exceptional cases, we also use hydro-jetting to wrap up snaking and rooting jobs. This drain cleaning method applies to all sorts of plumbing lines. However, we don’t apply the same pressure we use for main sewer lines when clearing kitchen sinks. Every drain line can only take so much pressure.
Our team comes with portable machines for jetting drains within the house. We also bring bigger machines for use in external drainage systems.
Vacuum Excavation
Sometimes, we have to excavate. Clogs and roots could get too stubborn to deal with through snaking. We can tell from the inspection process.
We only excavate at the source of blocking to vacuum out the debris. The clog gets sucked into our truck, improving drain functionality.
Why Are Chemical Drain Cleaners Our Last Option?
Most chemical drain cleaners are toxic and corrosive. Moreover, they don’t provide lasting solutions for stubborn clogs. They only burn holes into your plumbing lines and make the problem worse.
Best Plumber in Fairbanks: Unfreezing Drains
Drain clogs accumulate over time, but a cold snap in winter can freeze your pipes and cause a clog overnight.
You can tell your drains are frozen if:
- There’s no running water
- Your pipes are frosty
- Your pipes drain slowly
If you suspect your drain is frozen, try using a pot of boiling water. If it doesn’t work, pour baking soda down the pipes, followed by a cup of vinegar. The mixture will bubble and fizz, melting away the ice.
When all else fails, it’s time to give Prospector Plumbing a try.
You can always trust us for long-lasting and cost-effective solutions to your drain clogs.
Prospector Plumbing at (907) 322-5763 for urgent drain cleaning services.

THERE’S A REASON WE HAVE
5 STAR REVIEWS!
I had a problem with the furnace at my rental property not producing heat, so I called this company. They showed up promptly and their tech assessed the problem, and told me I needed to have certain parts replaced. Now I wasn’t at my rental property at the time to confirm the issue, I simply relied on their technician’s advice.
Hours later, the tech had his parts and did the repair… only to realize what he thought was the problem, was not in fact the problem, MY NEST THERMOSTAT WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME! The tech then realized that was something he should’ve checked from the beginning and apologized for his inaccurate diagnostic, and left. I then had to charge my Nest thermostat and my furnace started producing heat!!!
Now this company is attempting to charge me $952, FOR MY THERMOSTAT BEING DEAD! The tech that came to my home is clearly incompetent, as if he knew how to do his job correctly, the thermostat (of which was located directly above his head at the furnace) would have been checked before anything else.
Now the manager is being completely unreasonable with adjusting my invoice to reflect what work SHOULD HAVE been done (a call out fee and parts) and also will not give me a breakdown of the charges for the work performed, just a total, and is continuously harassing myself and my husband for full payment.
This should company understand that what they are doing is not right, and they need to make it right. Do yourself a favor and call a company that actually cares about their customers and has technicians that actually do their job correctly from the beginning.
He is very knowledgeable and explained the necessary repair with me
Thank you. I will certainly use your company for future service
Totally awesome job!! Thank you !!
Have been a customer for 3 or 4 years
Will continue to be loyal!!
I greatly appreciate the service and I would highly recommend them!
After leaving what I felt was a fair and honest review about my experience, I was contacted by their customer support team who was genuinely interested in hearing my side and seeing what they could do better as a company. He was very professional, and went above and beyond to make sure that my total experience with the company met my expectations.
*****
Their tech, Ryland, gave my system 2000 a tuneup. He was knowledgeable and professional and made sure he answered all my questions.
I did have some snags with the company that were unexpected. I had selected Prospector Plumbing due to their high rating despite their comparatively high price. We set up an appointment for the 8-10:00 timeframe, and I drove home from work to start waiting at 8:00. After not hearing anything by 10:20, I called their receptionist, who said they would reach out to the driver. When they called back, they said they were at least another hour out, and I decided to reschedule the appointment. They were apologetic and offered a 5% discount on my service.
On the morning of my second appointment, I got a text at 8:40 introducing my driver and saying he was on the way. He arrived at 9:00 and started on the boiler. He did a thorough job, and I had no problems with his work.
When it came time to pay for the $600 annual plan (cheaper than the stand-alone tuneup cost), the tech said the 5% off wouldn’t apply. When they offered the discount, there was no mention that it wouldn’t apply to the annual plan. Since the annual plan is cheaper than a stand-alone tuneup, it is expected that people just get the annual plan, which is what the receptionist had recommended. This would have made a difference whether I just went with another company or gave them another chance with a second appointment.
Ryland, if you’re reading this, I would totally hire you to come back and work on my boiler again, but my experience with the “company” side was less than I expected for the price point.
We have been happy with Prospector for work on our propane range, home boiler, and garage Toyo boiler. Morgan and Andrew did excellent work.
We have lived in Fairbanks for over 30 years and Prospector Plumbing had refreshingly excellent service, excellent communication, and a good value fixing our shower leak. (Excellent service is rare in Fairbanks) Also used them for boiler tuneup ($380). Most recently our boiler shutdown due to recirculating pump failure. As promised, they were on site the next morning to fix the problem.
We had another Fairbanks company quote much higher for our toyo boiler repairs.
When we moved up from the lower 48 we didn’t know a thing about boiler heating systems or heating oil. I read a lot about them on Google to gain some understanding but they’re totally foreign to our family. The boiler in our house we bought was older and had been “piece mailed” together a few times and we knew it was one of the first major things we would handle after getting settled. We did a lot of research on the natural gas vs oil topic and ultimately chose to convert the entire house to natural gas.
We called a few companies out to get a feel for the companies, get quotes, ask questions, etc. It’s not that the other companies weren’t nice or knowledgeable but there is a very obvious difference in the level of care and passion that Nick and Prospector Plumbing bring to the table. Like a night and day difference. We had some locals tells us we should work with a different company because they would “be cheaper” but no matter how you do it, this was a HUGE project that wasn’t going to be “cheap”.
Once we met Nick it was a done deal. We knew we were converting to natural gas and we knew we wanted to put every appliance we could on natural gas — we figured it made the most sense to get all the work done up front and hopefully reduce the electric bill some, minimize our carbon footprint, and in the long run save a ton on heating oil. Like I said, a huge project.
Considering the cost of this project was like buying a new car or small truck I had about billion questions and Nick never lost his patience with us and was more than willing to educate us and answer ALL of the questions. Nick must have come to our house 5 or 6 times to rework quotes every time we had questions, other thoughts, and provided us about every possible way to complete the project, and even suggested several ways we could save money if we wanted to not do certain things. The transparency and honesty was refreshing.
Nick Ely is an absolute fantastic human being and is worth his weight gold to Prospector and I hope they realize the value he brings to the company and what an asset he is.
To summarize, the work in total took about 10 working days (which is what we had estimated), the quality and craftsmanship of the work is phenomenal and we are truly appreciative off all the hard work that was put in and will be a lifelong customer to Prospector because of the great service we had. I would 11/10 recommend anyone to use this company services!
The only thing we regret was not taking the time to paint the garage while everything was removed ha!
Natalie on the phone was clear and helpful. She was able to schedule me within a day during a busy time.
Morgan is the best boiler technician I’ve ever had in the 33 years in this house. He was able to troubleshoot the problem and fix it in a workmanlike fashion. He explain what he did clearly and patiently. He answered questions I had about other parts of the piping and hardware in the boiler room.
This is the first time that I have employed Prospector, and I expect that they will be my primary outfit for boiler and plumbing problems in the future.
We will be using Prospector in the future when the need arises. Great to find a company that has quality performance and a follow through attitude. Refreshing!
Everyone at the office is friendly and helpful as well, so Prospector is the only plumbing and heating service for me.
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