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Bruce (Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA @ YouTube) is at a public washroom with a blocked urinal. He begins by plunging it, to try to drain away some of the sewage. After a while, he adds some fresh water, and plunges that through the drain, too. Once it has been plunged way, he pours some hydrochloric acid down the drain to try to dissolve any mineral buildup that might be blocking the drain. After letting the acid sit and work for some time, some more fresh water is poured down the drain. Some more plunging is done to clear the drain, and another bucket of water drains away as expected.

At a different job, Bruce has to clear another backed-up urinal. He starts by plunging it, too, and it drains away quickly. He pours some hydrochloric acid down the drain, and after waiting half an hour, he pours some water into the urinal that drains away fine.

Bruce (Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA @ YouTube) is at a restaurant with a blocked floor drain.

He finds the access lids for the restaurant’s grease trap along the side of the building, near some green bushes. The cover on the incoming side is lifted, and the drain camera is inserted into the pipe leading back to the restaurant. An obstruction of some sort is observed.

The drain camera is removed from the pipe, and the high-pressure water jetter nozzle and hose are inserted. After some jetting, a large volume of water suddenly empties into the grease trap.

Sinks inside the restaurant are used to send some water through the system, and it can be seen draining into the grease trap.

Some more jetting is done, just to ensure that the line is fully clear, and some more debris is pulled back. The walls of the grease interceptor are then hosed off before the cover is replaced.

For the first of two jobs, Bruce (Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA @ YouTube) is working on a floor drain that is blocked.

He removes the drain’s grate using a pair of pliers, and a nearby sink is used to send some water through the line. The water level observable through the floor drain does appear higher than expected, so a bucket of water is poured down to completely fill it.

A small nozzle is used on the high-pressure water jetting hose, and they’re fed into the floor drain. It doesn’t take long to pop the blockage, and the water rapidly drains away.

The sink is used again to send more water through the system, and the floor drain does appear to be draining properly now. Another bucket of water is poured around the floor drain, and it also drains away as expected.

For the second job, Bruce is working outside at an inspection opening that has sewage backing up out of it and collecting on the nearby ground.

A shovel is used to move aside some of the accumulated sewage, to help gain access to the inspection opening. With the location of the opening more visible, the high-pressure water jetter is fed into the system. After some jetting, the blockage is popped and some of the sewage on the ground nearest to the inspection opening begins to drain away.

The drain then backs up again a few moments later, and some more jetting is needed. The sewage begins to drain away again a short while later, but it backs up once more. After some more jetting, it drains again, but then backs up.

A different nozzle is attached to the jetting hose, and it’s sent into the system through the inspection opening. The drain appears to be draining better after this nozzle is used. Finally, a reverse nozzle is also sent into the drain.

With the drain apparently cleared, the sewage that still remains on the ground around the inspection opening is pushed in using the blade of a shovel, and it’s washed down the drain using the hose and some water.

Bruce (Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA @ YouTube) is at a channel drain that is severely clogged.

He begins by removing the grates cover the channel drain, and then uses the jetting hose to shoot some water into the blockage. This doesn’t seem to do much, though.

A trowel, and then a spade, are used to dislodge and break up the material. The hose is used again to wash the loose pieces down the drain. Since the dislodged clog is considered to be controlled waste, it has to be sent through the drain’s pipe where it will end up in a grease trap and eventually pumped away, instead of being removed and thrown into the garbage.

The channel drain’s output pipe eventually clogs up, and a plunging rod is used to clear it. More of the broken-up clog drains away, and the hose is used again to continue washing down more of the material. Since the channel is so thoroughly filled, it takes some time to wash it away.

Some disinfectant is poured through the channel, the hose is used some more, and then the plunger is needed once again to clear the drain’s pipe. More hosing is done to clean up the remaining material.

Bruce (Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA @ YouTube) is working in a washroom with a toilet that isn’t draining properly. He starts by trying to plunge the toilet, but this isn’t successful.

He then goes outside, and locates the inspection opening in a box under a metal lid. There appears to be some toilet paper and sewage backed up inside the box. After prodding around inside the box briefly with a long drill bit, he pulls out some toilet paper and what appear to be light blue paper towels.

The high-pressure water jetter is used to clear the drain, and some more of the blue paper towels are removed by hand before they continue through the system. When the drain appears to be clear, the drain camera is used to check the line. What seems to be a fragment of concrete is discovered to still be in the line. This piece is removed by hand, but some more pieces of concrete are soon located using the camera.

Two more chunks of debris are removed by snagging them with the jetting hose and nozzle while the jetter is turned off, and then pulling them out of the drain pipe through the inspection opening. The camera is used once again to check the line, and some tree roots are found, although no more pieces of concrete are found. Even before the roots are removed, the toilet is tested, and it is flushing better.