How To Avoid An Emergency Plumbing Service

How To Avoid An Emergency Plumbing Service - Introduction

But 1st, Let's Talk Plumbing Leaks

Although this article is mostly about drains, wet basements and preventative measures,
we'll talk briefly about other plumbing problems like leaks and other water issues:

If you see a major leak or water gushing into your home, you should shut off the water immediately. Use your homes main water valve to shut off the main water supply from the city. This will halt the entire water line to your homes plumbing system, including the hot water. Having water leak into the home will cause damage and increase your water bill.

Just be aware some plumbers won't be able to repair faulty water heaters, garbage disposals, or water softeners as these are appliances, so perhaps an appliance repair is required. You can check here for handyman reviews.

Now that we've touched on that, let's get to preventing a plumbing emergency.

How To Avoid An Emergency Plumbing Service:
Your Homes Kitchen Plumbing Stack

Let’s start with the kitchen sink plumbing stack. One of the hardest working fixtures in the home is the kitchen sink. If your kitchen sink is plugged or not draining or backing up soap suds and food debris into the basement, this is a telltale sign of a drain blockage in the plumbing stack.

A plumbers snaking service can help to clear blockages and keep your drains flowing, but sometimes grease, which even though we all do our best to NOT Pour down the drain, can accumulate over time. Grease is a tricky sticky substance and sometimes the best course of action is hydro jetting plumbing service; a high pressured water drain cleaning.

Do not attempt pouring chemical drain cleaners down your drains as they can be corrosive to your pipes. Replacing plumbing drains due to chemical-use isn't a repair you want to take on, and all it does it add to your plumbing problems. A drain replacement is one thing you definitely want to avoid.

Of course other issues can cause drain backups or drain blockages. The best way to proactively identify issues before there is a problem is to have a sewer scoping or drain camera inspection performed. This will help determine if the sewer system under the basement floor is in good condition.

If the drain pipe is old deteriorating clay, it could crack and collapse causing a complete blockage that no water can pass through. In this situation a drain repair or drain replacement would be required. This will upgrade your sewer drain pipe to the current standard of plastic pipe.

If roots are growing into the drain pipe, but the overall condition of the drain pipe is good, you may find value in a cost effective annual drain cleaning service performed by a professional plumber with the use of a drain snake, rootering through the roots to allow for the proper flow of water in the drain.

How To Avoid An Emergency Plumbing Service: How To Prevent Drain Backups
or Drain Blockages.

Basement floor drains are great access points into the basement sewer line, and are very important to the plumbing system. In the event of a wet flooded basement they can be used to drain the water away quickly in an emergency scenario preventing damages to your home.

Sometimes people ask themselves why their basement floor drains have a bad sewer smell, foul odour, or little drain flies coming out of drain? A floor drain could be cracked and leaking water into the earth beneath the basement floor, or it may not be plumbed in correctly and lack a trap seal primer; which is a water barrier as per plumbing code to stop sewer fumes or flies from driving you crazy. Plumbing repairs to get the system up to code may be required to eliminate the sewer fumes or drain flies from your home.

All the plumbing above the basement level connects to the underground drain system through stacks, drain pipes that run vertically down. In older homes these stacks can sometimes be a cast iron stack and overtime they erode and could be prone to cracks and leaking. Having them evaluated by a licensed plumber is a great rule of thumb to be on top of any water issues before there is a problem, and definitely upgrading to a plastic stack may be a wise move to avoid any messy situations, especially before completing any renovations.

Any basement could be so much more than just storage, but a wet basement that is damp can certainly not seem livable. How do you stop a wet basement? First thing, a waterproofing consultation with a professional might be just what you need to identify and rectify your wet basement floor or wet basement foundation with either a weeping tile system or internal or external waterproofing. This is a way to control or keep out the flow of rain water or ground water, to keep your space dry.

Whatever the plumbing service required, DrainWorks Plumbing has got you covered, whether it's preventing a plumbing issue or while you're in a plumbing emergency; let’s keep your homes plumbing in good health together. We offer emergency plumbing services and you can contact us during business hours OR book a plumber online 24 hours a day/7 days a week with our online booking form.

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