Roto-Rooter provides first-class plumbing, drain cleaning and engineering services to residential, commercial, municipal and industrial customers. The company’s level of customer satisfaction is unparalleled in the industry. Nearly nine out of ten customers say they are extremely likely or very likely to use Roto-Rooter again in the future.

Although Roto-Rooter became famous as a drain cleaning company, in 1981 it began its transition into a full-service plumbing company. Today, almost every Roto-Rooter location offers fast and reliable plumbing services to residential and commercial customers. No job is too big or too small.

One of the nation’s best known advertising jingles belongs to Roto-Rooter. Generations of Americans are familiar with "Roto-Rooter, that’s the name, and away go troubles down the drain." First sung in 1954 by Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers on WLS Radio in Chicago, the Roto-Rooter jingle has been featured in countless advertisements for the company and it’s now a bona fide piece of American pop culture. Roto-Rooter celebrated the jingle’s 50^th anniversary in May 2004.

Roto-Rooter Corporation was founded in 1935 by Samuel Blanc in Des Moines, Iowa, following his invention of the first electric sewer cleaning machine, known as the Roto-Rooter." In 1980, the Blanc family sold the company to Chemed Corporation, a publicly held New York Stock Exchange company (CHE) headquartered in Cincinnati. Chemed took Roto-Rooter public in 1985. The company’s stock was traded on the NASDAQ exchange until August 1996 when Chemed bought back all outstanding shares in a leveraged buyout. Chemed owns and operates Roto-Rooter Services Company, which operates 110 company-owned service locations, mostly in major metropolitan areas. Chemed also operates Roto-Rooter Corporation, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, which manufactures Roto-Rooter machinery and drain cleaning equipment under the Roto-Rooter® and Duracable® brand names and oversees independent Roto-Rooter franchises throughout the world.