Sewer-Saver™ Root Treatment
Our "Sewer-Saver™" process uses a formulation of root
controlling chemicals that can prevent the eventual
destruction of your sewer line.
When it comes to using rotary root cutting heads on snake
machines, remember, "The more you snake it, the worse you
make it."
Cabling roots actually accelerates the eventual destruction
of your sewer line by encouraging more growth just like
pruning a plant encourages more growth. Sooner or later a
root cutter head may no longer penetrate roots that have
repeatedly been cabled.
Remember, the only way roots can grow into a properly
fabricated sewer line is if it is broken as clay sewer pipes
usually are. Tree roots can sense water vapor and head
towards the break, sending in root tips through as fine as a
few cells in diameter. Once it hits the water and
fertilizer, it spreads rapidly and the original anchor root
starts adding rings in diameter every growth cycle just like
a tree trunk does. Then the roots begin the long growth
process of eventual occlusion of your sewer line. As it
starts to back up, since roots masses are sometimes porous,
effluent doesn’t initially manifest its symptoms inside your
home just like a car engine often times runs decent till
something major breaks.
Chemicals like copper sulfate in home centers are illegal to
put in your drains as it harms the beneficial bacteria used
in public sewage treatment facilities. Also, when you flush
your toilet, the effluent level in a sewer sits on the
bottom and may rise less than a 1/2". This prevents any
substantial contact of copper sulfate to the root mass,
which commonly grows in from the sides and tops anyway.
Where copper sulfate does make limited contact, it does a
good job of killing the few roots it contacts, but it also
kills the fungus and bacteria that colonize but do not harm
living roots as since they are alive, they have a natural
defense system. That is just the opposite of what you want,
as dead, dense roots can cause stoppages just as easy as
live ones-paper doesn’t care. Dead roots are woody cellulose
based food the fungus and bacterial would rapidly consume if
it weren’t for the fact you just killed off the fungus and
bacteria with chemicals toxic to them.
Our Sewer-Saver™ process foams inside your sewer and drain
pipes delivering a root herbicide that typically kills the
roots within the hour, is non-toxic to fungus and bacteria
and in fact breaks down into sugars and fertilizers so the
fungus and bacteria can go on a feeding frenzy at the
expense of your now dead root food. But it can only travel a
foot or so up the root mass so with proper application can
remove the roots not only in your sewer but remove them from
the breaks to just outside the sewer pipe, preventing the
eventual destruction of your sewer yet not harming your
trees.
Only our expert plumbers can determine if your root
occlusion case is good candidate for our Sewer-Saver™
process, as some sewer roots are far beyond chemical
remediation.
Dave Bischof is the federally registered trademark holder of
Sewer-Saver™ and as such we're the only firm offering the
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