When Ben Thomas bought a lightweight Drain Invader water jetter from Jetters Northwest about a year ago, the general manager of 1-Hour Drain in San Jose, California, figured he’d buy more if it worked as advertised.
It did — and Thomas now plans to eventually put a Drain Invader in each of the company’s 12 service vehicles, a mix of Nissan NV 2500s and Ford and Chevrolet vans.“Initially, I thought it would work really well for the kind of work we do, which is primarily unclogging smaller drainlines in homes and apartment complexes,” Thomas says. Owner Robert Gallaher established the company in 2011; it
