Get Your Drains Cleaned

The water drain lines inside your home transport gray water and sewage out, so drain cleaning that keeps lines open and flowing is paramount to a healthy home. Too often, folks ignore their drains until something goes wrong. Then, dirty, bacteria filled water has soaked your floors and perhaps your walls, and the damage is done.

Check Your Pipes

As with many areas of home repair, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Pipes throughout your home take waste water from your home under the house, through the yard and eventually to your septic system or the city sewer connection.

When drain lines are working well, the water flows quickly down the drain. Eventually, though, these drain lines can get clogged up with food, grease, soap scum, hair and even odds and ends that fall down the drain.

At the first sign of slow draining, contact a drain cleaning specialist, who will use the proper tools and chemicals to clear your drains without damaging the pipes or fittings. A qualified, professional plumber can unclog your drains and also repair any plumbing issues.

The Benefits Of Proper Maintenance

Preventative maintenance is highly effective; regular drain cleaning can keep your drains from clogging, breeding bacteria and possibly backing up. The best prevention occurs when homeowners have their bathtub, shower and sink drains cleaned by a professional at least once each year.

Remember, clogs can happen not only in the drains leading from your plumbing fixtures, but also in your larger sewer lines. Your plumbing fixture lines connect to larger plumbing sewer lines and these larger lines can become blocked by tree roots, which may result in sewage backing up in the home, usually through floor drains in the lower level of the home. This can pose a serious problem, particularly for the older, more established neighborhoods, where large trees with established, far reaching root systems are more common.

With this type of blockage, drain cleaning professionals will send a rotating blade, called a snake, into your sewer lines, which frees trapped, accumulated debris and removes tree roots from the lines.

Catch The Clogs Early

When it comes to the drain lines in home plumbing systems, preventing serious clogs and back-ups is the best strategy and the proper maintenance will help.

If a clog is caught early, plumbing repairs can remove the clog and restore free flow to your waste water system. This will ensure your home stays free of sewer water and keeps you and your family healthy and dry.

Jim Mitcham
JIM's, Inc.
jimsphac@aol.com
(301) 926-3499