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Gavin (Penetrator Blocked Drains @ YouTube; Turbo Plumbing Solutions) is in a relatively rural area, at a property with a septic system leach field that isn’t draining properly.

He removes the lid of the leaching field’s distribution box, and the box itself is full of wastewater. While wearing a long, shoulder-length glove, he feels around beneath the surface of the water to try to locate the pipes connecting to the box. Afterward, he notes that there are some large trees near where the leach field pipes likely are, leading him to suspect that their roots may have entered the leaching pipes.

Using the high-pressure water jetter, he begins to clean one of the leach field’s pipes. He encounters what seems to be a blockage, and after working at it briefly, the water in the distribution box does start to drain away. It doesn’t take long for the box to almost completely empty.

After removing the hose from the first pipe that was jetted, he moves it over to another one of the pipes connecting to the distribution box. As he jets this one, though, it becomes apparent that it’s the pipe bringing wastewater into the distribution box. He removes the hose from that pipe, and then begins to jet up another outgoing leach field pipe that he initially thought was higher up in the box, and thus the input. Gavin notes that the distribution box might not be level, resulting in only one of the output pipes possibly handling the bulk of the wastewater.

He does some more jetting with a different nozzle to try to break up what seems to be roots in the line as much as possible, and he ends up pulling some of them back when removing the hose. With the distribution box no longer retaining water, he replaces its concrete lid.

Gavin (Penetrator Blocked Drains @ YouTube; Turbo Plumbing Solutions) is at a home with a bathroom drainage system that appears to be obstructed.

He uses a drill-powered drain snake that’s fed into the pipe via a drain in the bathroom floor. Although the system is draining somewhat after a little while of using the drain snake, Gavin becomes suspicious about what’s actually going on inside the pipe. He puts the drain camera down and does see roots, but begins to think that they may be in an overflow relief gully.

After going outside the house, he uses the pipe locator and determines that the camera is below ground in a landscaped area just outside the bathroom’s window. After brushing aside the loose landscaping material using his hand, he quickly discovers a grate covering a gully. Some roots can even be seen growing in through the grate’s openings. Gavin removes the grate, and he’s then able to manually pull out some clumps of roots, thus clearing the obstruction.

Gavin (Penetrator Blocked Drains @ YouTube; Turbo Plumbing Solutions) is at a home with a blocked sewage drain. The drain system is located on the exterior wall of the house, but the vertical section of piping runs through an enclosed canopy-covered shed structure with a workbench, tools, and other items inside of it.

In order to avoid getting sewage on the items, Gavin decides to jet from on top of the canopy. He uses a ladder to climb up there, and then removes a segment of what appears to be a vent pipe. This releases some of the backed-up water, and it also gives an opening into the system that he can insert the jetting nozzle and hose through.

It doesn’t take very long to clear the blockage using the jetter. Once that’s done, he rinses down the roof he is working on top of, and manually removes some leaves and other debris that were clogging up the gutter along the edge of the canopy. Jetting on the roof did help avoid getting sewage on the various items in the shed-like structure.