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Back home. He fed the cable into the cleanout. The machine whirred, a low, grinding hum. Ten feet. Twenty. The cable scraped against turns. Thirty feet—it hit resistance. The motor labored. Leo pushed, pulled, let the cutter chew. It broke through with a shudder. Forty feet. Fifty. The cable suddenly spun free, no resistance. He’d reached the city main. He cranked the machine in reverse, pulling the cable back. The cutter head emerged caked in a foul, fibrous mat—what looked like a decade of wet wipes (despite the “flushable” label), congealed grease, and something that might have once been a child’s toy.

Leo was stubborn. He found a 3 a.m. hardware store that rented tools. He drove, bought a 75-foot electric auger with a ½-inch cable and a spiral cutting head. The clerk gave him one piece of advice: “Run the cable slow. If you hit a sharp bend, you’ll punch through the pipe. Then you’re digging.” how to unclog main sewer line

He sat back on his heels. The smell was worse now—the disturbance had released gases. He reread the article. Pro tip: If the snake comes back clean and the water still isn’t draining, the clog is not in the first 25 feet. You need the big machine. Or call a pro. Back home

The pipe below was dark. He aimed the flashlight. Not full to the brim, but close. Murky water sat six inches down, reflecting his own worried face. The clog was somewhere between here and the street. Ten feet

Then he saw it: The Cleanout.