On Isle of Palms the first question is often not what is wrong, but whose pipe it is — and in a villa or condo that answer decides who pays.
Whose line is it in a villa
In Wild Dunes and the other multi-unit properties, the drain from your fixtures to the shared stack is generally the owner’s responsibility, while the stack itself and the line leaving the building usually belong to the association. That boundary is exactly where disputes happen. We identify which side of it your problem sits on before any work starts, and we are happy to put that in writing for your management company.
Shared stacks collect everything
A stack serving several units takes whatever every unit sends down it. That is why a blockage can appear in your bathroom when the cause was two floors up. If neighbours are having similar trouble, that is genuinely useful information rather than a coincidence.
Single-family homes
For houses on the island the line is entirely yours. Older properties may have pipe that has silted up with sand carried in through cracked joints, which is a different problem from a blockage.
Camera first
Particularly in a multi-unit building, footage settles the question of where the problem actually is rather than leaving it to argument.