We've had to snake our pipes from the kitchen 3 times now in the last couple years. I'm pretty confident that it mainly due to the misuse/abuse of our underpowered garburator. Some in our family who will remain nameless seem to think they can toss pots of old broccoli and bean sprouts down it without ramification. We are going to upgrade the garburator.
Anyways, the last plumber we used suggested hydro-jetting our lines, where they feed a hose down the pipes blasting water at up to 3000psi. He claims it will leave the pipes about as clean as if they were brand new.
The charge to hydrojet all the pipes in our house was monstrous - multiple thousands of dollars. After some investigation, it looks like I can rent my own hydro-jet machine locally for very cheap (around $120/day). There are some videos online on how to operate the machine too.
Does anyone have experience with this? Is this something a homeowner can do, or is it best left to the professionals?
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