HYDRO JETTING IN TEMPLE TERRACE

Temple Terrace Hydro Jetting and Drain Cleaning

Temple Terrace was planned in 1920 as one of the first golf-course communities in the country and incorporated in 1925. Mediterranean Revival houses from the 1920s stand beside post-war mid-century homes, and the whole city sits under sand live oaks. It is a Tree City USA.

Old houses and big oaks are the two ingredients behind most of the sewer calls that come from here. They are also the reasons we do not start with a jetter.

Temple Terrace Sewer Line Jetting Begins with a Camera

Before the 1970s, laterals were commonly clay, cast iron or, from the 1940s into the early 1970s, Orangeburg fiber pipe. Each fails differently. Clay cracks and opens joints to roots, cast iron scales and thins, and Orangeburg can delaminate or collapse under pressure. Whether a given house still has any of it is a question for the camera, not the year on the deed.

If the camera shows a sound line with roots in it, a cutting nozzle and a flush are the right job. If it shows a crushed or offset section, jetting is off the table and the honest answer is a repair contractor.

What We Do for Temple Terrace Homes

• Hydro Jetting Services — High-pressure water jetting that scours grease, scale and debris from drain and sewer lines
• Sewer Line Hydro Jetting — Full main-line cleaning from the house cleanout out to the street connection
• Kitchen Line Grease Jetting — Grease clearing for kitchen branch lines and the drain stack beneath your sink
• Root Removal & Line Clearing — Cutting and flushing roots out of sewer lines before they block the flow
• Drain Cleaning & Snaking — Cable snaking for sinks, tubs, showers, floor drains and stubborn toilet clogs
• Sewer Camera Inspection — Video inspection showing pipe condition, blockages and root entry before and after cleaning

Root Removal and Drain Cleaning Around Temple Terrace's Oaks

Roots go where moisture is, and a joint that weeps even slightly is a drink. Mature trees over an old line tend to win that contest. Our write-up on cutting nozzles versus chemical root killers compares the options, and root removal and line clearing explains the job itself.

The utility depends on the street: the City of Temple Terrace provides water, and Tampa Utilities serves some customers for water and sewer. Confirm yours by address. Nearby pages: North Tampa and New Tampa.

Temple Terrace Neighborhoods, from the 1920s Estates to the Riverhills

The city's oldest streets sit around the golf course, with newer pockets toward the river and I-75.

• Temple Terrace Estates — The 1920s core around the golf course, built with stucco Mediterranean Revival houses; laterals this old may include clay or cast iron, so a camera pass comes before any jetting.
• Riverhills — Takes its name from Bertha Palmer's former 19,000-acre preserve and lies along the Hillsborough River; moist riverside soil draws roots toward lateral joints, which a camera shows before we jet.
• Temple Crest — Just west of the city, bounded by Busch Boulevard, 30th Street and the river; sold for development in 1924 and annexed by Tampa in 1961, so older lines are plausible.
• Del Rio — Unincorporated suburb between Tampa and Temple Terrace built in the 1950s and 1960s, bounded by the river, US 92 and 56th Street; mid-century laterals may include cast iron.
• East Lake-Orient Park — Unincorporated community bordering Temple Terrace, with East Lake, Orient Park and Del Rio inside it; the sewer provider depends on the street, so confirm by address.
• Terrace River — Riverside community in ZIP 33637 on Terrace River Drive and River Mont Way; sales records show homes from 1975 to 2007, so pipe type varies and the camera guides us.

Temple Terrace Roads, River and Landmarks on Our Route

• Hillsborough River — Flows through the east and south of the city and forms part of its southern edge; roots tend to seek moist ground near the bank.
• 56th Street — Carries the city's entry tower and crosses the river by bridge; as SR 583 it marks the eastern edge of Del Rio.
• Busch Boulevard (SR 580) — Forms the northern edge of Temple Crest, the Tampa neighborhood on Temple Terrace's west side.
• Interstate 75 — Runs along the city's eastern side, beyond which Hillsborough County turns rural.
• Fowler Avenue — Road serving the USF campus; Temple Terrace and USF have been working with FDOT on improvements to it.
• Riverhills Park — Riverside park holding a historic marker and a replica of the cross Spanish explorers erected in 1757.
• Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club — A 6,414-yard, par-72 course on the National Register of Historic Places since October 2012; the 1920s Estates streets wind around it.
• Woodmont Clubhouse — The only surviving building from Palmer's Riverhills preserve and the oldest building in the city.
• Florida College — Roughly 20-acre campus on the river; Sutton Hall, built around 1922 as a golf clubhouse, is among the city's oldest buildings.

Temple Terrace Facts That Shape Sewer Line Jetting

• In ZIP 33617, which includes Temple Terrace and Del Rio, the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate gives a median year built of 1979, with 53% of housing units built before 1980 and 13% before 1960. More than half the housing predates the 1980s switch to plastic sewer pipe, so clay, cast iron or fiber laterals are plausible and a camera should go in before the jetter.
• ZIP 33637, the city's other ZIP, is younger in the same estimate, with a median year built of 1988 and 28% of units built since 2000. The east side is a second housing generation, likely plumbed in PVC, so jobs there lean toward grease and root work rather than old-pipe caution.
• Of 12,079 housing units in the city of Temple Terrace, 42% are detached single-family homes and 25% are in buildings of five or more units, and owners occupy 5,860 of 11,630 households. Apartment buildings generally share a building drain that is a manager's call, while house owners are responsible for their own laterals, so whose line is blocked comes first.
• Architect Dwight James Baum designed 42 Mediterranean Revival houses in Temple Terrace in 1926, possibly the biggest concentration of his work in the Southeast. Houses nearing a century old have the oldest laterals in our service area, so we look for clay joints, scaled cast iron and roots on camera before any pressure goes in.
• A regional I-4 Infrastructure Assessment states that the City of Temple Terrace currently pumps all of its wastewater to the City of Tampa. The public sewer in the street feeds Tampa's system, so a camera view of your lateral helps show whether a backup is on your side or the public side.

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