Rodding restores flow. It is fast, it is the cheapest thing on this page, and for a one-off blockage it is the correct answer.
Jetting cleans the pipe rather than opening a channel through what is in it. That is the answer when the same line keeps closing.
Repair is the answer when the pipe itself has failed, and no amount of cleaning changes that. We tell you which rung you are on before we start, not after.
The building drain out to the city main — cleared, then camera-checked.
A cable and a cutting head. The right answer for a one-off blockage.
Takes the pipe back to its walls, not just a channel through the blockage.
Roots cut back at the joint they came in through — and you see why.
Kitchens that cannot afford to stop serving mid-service.
Jetted and vacuumed before the next storm puts water on the sidewalk.
Cleaning clears the blockage. It does not repair the pipe.
If roots came in through a cracked joint, cutting them buys you a season, maybe two, and then they come back through the same crack. We will tell you which one you have and what each costs, because the alternative is you paying us twice for the same afternoon.
Main sewers, building drains, floor drains and storm lines. Same idea in every case — a cable, a cutting head, and somebody who has done it enough to feel the difference between grease and a root.
Grease cools and lines the pipe like plaque, narrowing it a little every year. Roots find the one cracked joint and grow into the only water on the block. And occasionally there is a thing that was flushed and should not have been, which we pull out and do not comment on.
A cable cuts a hole through the blockage. A jetter takes the pipe back to its walls.
Rodding punches an opening and the flow returns, which feels like a fix — but the grease ring, the scale and the root hair at the joint are all still there, and the pipe closes again from the diameter it started at. Jetting is water at pressure through a nozzle that pulls itself up the line and cuts backward against the walls.
It is the right call on restaurant grease lines, on mineral scale, on storm drains and catch basins packed with sand after a season of runoff — and on any drain you have had rodded twice in the same year.
Jetting a pipe that has already failed can finish it.
Old clay tile with cracked joints, a line offset at the bell, a section already collapsed — pressure in that pipe makes the problem larger and the repair more expensive. That is why we camera anything we have not seen before the jetter comes off the truck.
Somebody willing to jet your sewer without looking at it first is gambling with your line, not theirs.
We are an excavation and main-line contractor. We do not take clogged toilets, sinks, tubs or a single slow fixture. That is a plumber’s afternoon, not ours, and sending a crew and a jetter to a bathroom sink serves nobody.
If the blockage is in one fixture, call a plumber. If it is the main line, the building drain, a grease line or a catch basin, call us.
A grease line closes over months. The day it blocks is the day the kitchen is not serving.
Sand and leaf litter fill the basin until the water has nowhere to go but across the sidewalk.
A backup is a symptom, not a diagnosis. We clear the line, then camera it so you know which one you have.
Rodding restores flow. It is fast, it is the cheapest thing on this page, and for a one-off blockage it is the correct answer.
Jetting cleans the pipe rather than opening a channel through what is in it. That is the answer when the same line keeps closing.
Repair is the answer when the pipe itself has failed, and no amount of cleaning changes that. We tell you which rung you are on before we start, not after.
We quote before anything comes off the truck, not after. Rodding or jetting a main line is a known quantity and we will price it on the phone.
The camera pass is a charged service, not a free add-on — anyone offering a free camera inspection is pricing it into something else. What we will not quote on the phone is a repair, because nobody can price a break they have not seen.
All five boroughs — Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Recurring backups, a main line you have had rodded twice this year, a grease line slowing down, or a catch basin that floods the sidewalk every storm.
Call (718) 965-3500 or request sewer cleaning. A person answers.
What we can show you in writing before any work starts.
Yes. Lady Liberty Contracting Corp is fully licensed, bonded and insured for water main and sewer work throughout New York City. Certificates of insurance and licence details are available on request before any work begins.
The work is carried out under a New York City Licensed Master Plumber on our own staff, not subcontracted to another firm. That matters on permitted work, because the DEP and DOT filings are pulled under the licence of the plumber responsible for the job.
Yes. Every installation and repair carries a 10-year workmanship guarantee. If an issue arises that relates to our work, we come back and put it right.
We handle them. Permit filing, inspections and sign-off are managed in-house as part of the job, including street-opening permits and the restoration that follows.
Yes. Water main and sewer replacements are large, unplanned expenses, and payment options are available. See financing and flexible payment options.
We work on the water and sewer lines that connect a property to the city main: service line repairs and replacements, sewer laterals, excavation, DEP and DOT permitted work, and the street and sidewalk restoration afterwards. That covers residential, commercial and municipal properties across all five boroughs. We do not take on interior plumbing — in-house leaks, fixtures, heating or boiler work.
