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In Farmers Branch, the city asks you to call Public Works before you call a plumber when a sewer line backs up. That is a fair request, and it says something useful about where public pipe stops and your pipe starts. Herndon McFarland Plumbing has worked this part of the county since 1995, and we would rather a homeowner know that boundary up front than pay us to go find it.
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Farmers Branch sends us more drain and sewer work than anything else, so the list starts there. Our own licensed technicians handle all of it.
Sewer inspection, pipe repair, and fixture work are covered as well. The full plumbing services list has the rest.
Most homeowners learn how sewer ownership works on the worst possible day. Farmers Branch puts it in writing first. The city’s sewer page asks residents to call the Public Works Department at 972-919-2597 about a clogged sewer before contacting a private plumber, because a Utilities Division crew will check whether the blockage sits in the City-owned portion of the pipe before the homeowner spends anything.
Take them up on it. If the stoppage is in the public main, their crew clears it. If the public side comes back clear and fixtures are still backing up, the trouble is in the lateral between the house and the main, and that pipe belongs to the property owner.
The same page tells residents to keep fats, oil, grease, and greasy food scraps out of the sink and the garbage disposal, and it names a grease collection site at the Citizen Collection Center on Senlac Drive. That is not housekeeping advice. Grease leaves the kitchen warm and liquid, then cools out under the yard and sets against the pipe wall. On a rough older line, at a joint holding roots, or in a low spot where the fall flattened, it grabs and builds until a kitchen line that behaved for years starts backing up every few months.
Grease, roots, and a sagging section of pipe call for three different fixes, so we camera the lateral before quoting one of them.
More Than One Drain Slows at the Same Time
A single slow sink is usually local. Two or three together points downstream.
Water Rises in the Tub or a Floor Drain
Those are the lowest openings in the house, so a full line finds them first.
The Kitchen Line Clogs on a Schedule
Cabling opens a channel through grease and leaves the rest on the pipe wall.
Homeowners here call us because the job stays with one company from the first camera pass to the final inspection.
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Call the city first on a sewer stoppage. If the line turns out to be yours, we will camera it, tell you what is in there, and price the repair before anyone picks up a shovel. We cover Farmers Branch and the surrounding service areas from our shop on Billy Mitchell Drive in Addison.
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Call the City of Farmers Branch Public Works Department at 972-919-2597 before calling a private plumber. The city asks residents to do this so a Utilities Division crew can check whether the stoppage sits in the City-owned portion of the pipe. If their crew finds the public side clear, the blockage is in the lateral on your property, and that pipe is the homeowner’s responsibility. A licensed plumber can then camera the line and locate the cause.
Grease is the usual answer. Fats and cooking oil leave the sink warm, then cool and harden along the inside of the drain line past the wall of the house. Cabling opens a channel through the buildup but leaves most of it on the pipe wall, so the clog returns on a cycle. Hydro jetting scours the wall back to full diameter instead. Farmers Branch also runs a grease collection site at the Citizen Collection Center on Senlac Drive.
It depends on the scope. Minor repairs such as a leaking faucet, a toilet rebuild, or clearing a drain generally do not require one. Replacing a water heater, repiping a house, rerouting drain lines, altering gas piping, or repairing a sewer lateral typically does, and permitted work has to pass inspection before the job is complete. We determine what the City of Farmers Branch requires for your job, pull the permit, and see the inspection through.
Not always, which is why we look before we jet. A camera inspection shows the pipe material and condition first. A sound line, even an old one, jets well and comes back to full diameter. A line that is already cracked, crushed, badly corroded, or separated at a joint needs repair rather than cleaning. We make that call from the footage and walk you through what the camera found before any work is scheduled.
Detection comes before demolition. We isolate the system, pressure test to confirm a leak exists, then use electronic listening equipment and line tracing to narrow its position under the concrete. Once located, there is usually more than one way to reach it: an access point inside, a reroute of the affected line, or a tunnel dug beneath the foundation from outside. Our own excavation crews handle tunneling, which often leaves finished flooring and cabinets untouched.
From slab leaks under the foundation to sewer line repipes, every job is diagnosed, documented, and done right. A look at recent work across North Dallas.
Excellent customer service, very friendly staff from the person taking the call to the staff fixing the repairs. Very trustworthy company. Shaun explained the step-by-step process and provided very fair prices.
Their positive, upbeat, anxious-to-please attitude made the whole process the very best it could be! All of the employees were a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend Herndon McFarland.
Trent and Reggie were the most professional associates entering our home. They treated our home with respect as if it were theirs. We will use this company again because of them and our experience.
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