Hot-Water Trailer Jetter Opens Up Commercial Market for Drain Cleaning Company

California’s $15 Sewer & Drain consistently reinvests profits to stay up to date on the latest equipment.

During the nearly four decades that the late Mark McGinnis built $15 Sewer & Drain into a well-recognized business in the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, he consistently reinvested profits into the company and prided himself on embracing advanced technology. So it seems only fitting that six months after he died unexpectedly of a heart attack in January 2020 that his wife, Valerie McGinnis, who now owns the company, decided to invest about $50,000 in a trailer-mounted, hot-water jetting machine (4,000 psi at up to 10 gpm) made by HotJet USA.“Mark hadn’t talked about buying one,” McGinnis says.