Mike H.
04/04/2023 12:00:00 SA
Zoom Drain was absolutely amazing! I highly recommend them!!!! On Sunday late morning, our toilets backed up into the shower. Trouble shooting led us to believe there was a back up to the main. None of our local area plumbers were able to help on such short notice but one referred me to Zoom Drain knowing they were open on a Sunday, and he had good experiences with them.
I called Tanner at 1 pm all his technicians were scheduled for the day and he offered me an appointment first thing Monday morning. Tanner was super pleasant and very helpful!
He reviewed their pricing with me, which was fair and reasonable. Upon hearing that I couldn't be here during the week (due to work) and I was in a serious pickle, he said he would try to get me in later that evening if at all possible and would circle back with me at 4 pm in the hopes that his technicians might finish their last job early and he could send them over. Well that job took them to the end of the work day, but Kyle one of the amazing technicians still came out all the way to El Dorado County from Sacramento at 8 pm on a Sunday!!!! That right there deserves this recommendation but it gets better...
Kyle was super helpful, pleasant and kind! He snaked the line for a very reasonable price and with camera inspection saw that the blockage had occurred because the coupling which joins the old cast iron pipes to the new abs pipes had failed causing the pipes to shift off center from each other thus causing the blockage. This was now a major concern for me as that meant any further flushing or water use would leak under my foundation.
Thankfully I have a raised foundation, so in the dark, on a Sunday night Kyle crawled under my house to try and get to it. We tried several access points but it is an older house with remodels and additions which made it near impossible to get to the break. He helped me walk the house exterior, garage and interior as he located several other access points, but none that could get him direct access. It looked like all hope was lost for that evening as the access point he need had been closed off by the previous owner and I panicked that I would need to open up the floors. Kyle persisted, and with head lamp and determination found a way enter through a different access and squeeze through beams, mud and possible black widows and somehow was able to get into that tight fitting area to fix the coupling.
Turns out the old owner connected the abs to the cast iron with the wrong fitting (they used copper to cast iron) and since the fit wasn't secure the coupling where the pipes meet shifted and failed.
Kyle had the needed coupling in his work vehicle and was able to correctly join the pipes and secure them. He was incredibly kind, patient and helpful through the whole process and answered my many questions. He shared camera views so that as the homeowner I understood what was happening and let me know exactly where the pipe was in my house and took pictures for me of the repair.
I profusely thanked him for all his help especially so late on a Sunday, and his response was simple, I treat like my clients like I would want people to treat my family
I am super grateful to both Tanner and Kyle! So much so that I had to get on here and write my first Yelp review!