ProDrain was a godsend to me in a very bad plumbing situation I just encountered in a century old Portland home. Not only did they provide good service at affordable rates. They modeled how a customer-friendly and transparent business should operate.
My tenants came home one night to find backed up plumbing. Without notifying me, they called a different plumbing company I won't name with hundreds of horrific reviews, including one I just wrote. That company wanted to charge rates I knew were outrageous and I immediately refused to pay. Like $649.99 to unclog a floor drain, which my tenants guessed was the problem. ProDrain actually had unclogged the same drain, for a fraction of the cost, in 2020. I've hired ProDrain to unclog drains a number of times and they have always done that successfully, quickly, and affordably.
So I had a situation where I told a scammy and overpriced plumber, No, and understandably frustrated tenants with backed up plumbing. Not good!
I called ProDrain the following morning at 8 AM. And their very friendly and knowledgeable receptionist Kay quoted me, at my request, both an affordable fixed rate for unclogging a floor drain as well as an hourly rate if they needed to snake the main line to the sewer. The rates were completely transparent, took 30 seconds to disclose, and were about one quarter of what the scammy company wanted to charge the night before to snake the wrong drain.
ProDrain's friendly plumber Thomas was in the house within a few hours. I was not there, but what I learned through my tenant is he quickly figured out through some simple tests that the problem was almost certainly a main line clog - not the floor drain. He didn't waste time, or my money, trying to get me to agree to some outrageous price and sign a predatory contract like the scammer the night before. He just went to work trying to clear the clog in the line to the street. His final bill was $295.00, which was reasonable. And a fraction of the $1500 the scammer wanted to do the same thing the night before.
Unfortunately for me and my tenants, in this case the problem ended up being a failing century old pipe to the street. Thomas was transparent about that as well, told me everything he could, and gave me some leads to call to get started on a much bigger project beyond the scope of what ProDrain does. I called him a few times afterwards with a few other questions, and he was very helpful and informative.
Bottom line: this was the most difficult situation I've faced in 32 years as a property owner. Now it is fixed, and there are new sewer and water pipes. ProDrain did everything they could, honestly and affordably, just like they have every other time I hired them to fix much simpler plumbing problems. Having just dealt the night before with a different plumbing company that seemed to want to use this difficult situation to play gotcha with signed estimates and rip me off for as much as they could, I really appreciated ProDrain's competence, affordability, and integrity.
My tenants, who had to live through this with me at their discomfort and my expense, told me they learned some good lessons from the experience. I think ProDrain and the other company I ended up hiring to repair the sewer line modeled how customer-friendly and affordable companies do business. Thanks!