First and foremost, garbage disposals are designed to grind up small amounts of residual food left on plates, pots and pans after a meal. If you use it for anything more than the above description, you are asking for trouble. Use a garbage can to dispose of larger quantities of old food. Disposal problems are one of the most common residential plumbing calls received by local … Read More
Pumpkin Carving Fun Often Leads to Clogged Drains
Drain clogs are common in the days leading up to Halloween. Many pumpkin carvers like to do the job in the kitchen sink and push the pulp down into the garbage disposal. Unfortunately, sticky pumpkin pulp, or pumpkin guts, will gum up your garbage disposal and clog the drain. WHAT WILL IT DO TO YOUR PLUMBING? First, pumpkin guts will choke a … Read More
Sewer Line Spot Repair
When homeowners start experiencing issues with their sewer lines, they usually aren’t in a good mood. Sewer lines should last around 50 years, and nobody looks forward to the time when they need to be replaced. Sometimes when problems start arising, the entire sewer line doesn’t need to be replaced. A plumber, using new methods and technologies, may be able to perform spot … Read More
Use a Sewer Inspection to Help You Negotiate the Price of a Home
The old adage, “know before you buy,” is great advice when it comes to purchasing a home. Many buyers consider a home inspection to be sufficient to give them all the information they need. However, in our experience, many homeowners benefit from also conducting a video sewer inspection. A camera inspection of this sort costs only a few hundred dollars, potentially saving … Read More
Pet Owners: 4 Plumbing Tips to Keep Your Drains and Pipes Clean
If you have a furry friend or two, you may have experienced the unique plumbing issues that come with them. All that hair can clog drains during bath time, and you’ve probably found Fido sipping from the toilet at some point. Here are some plumbing-related tips that are helpful to know as a pet owner: USE A DRAIN STRAINER When your dog … Read More
Camera Sewer Inspections Reach Tough Places
It’s usually not very difficult to figure out when there’s a problem with your sewage system, like if there’s a gurgling sound coming from the toilet or one of your drains. But it may be so bad (and horribly obvious) that there is raw, disgusting sewage coming back up the drains. While identifying that there is a problem in general … Read More
What is Sewer Gas?
Sewer gas smells can often be a problem for home owners when they have leaks, cracked pipes, blocked vents or even clogged drains. But what exactly it sewer gas? Sewer gas is a combination of toxic and nontoxic gases that when combined can produce a poor odor or a methane gas smell. More specifically, sewer gas is a byproduct of natural … Read More
Trenchless Pipe Bursting
You have called a local plumber over for what you once thought was a small clog but the problem has been diagnosed as sewer failure and is causing raw sewage to backup into your home. Images of dirt mounds, large equipment and a destroyed, dug up yard begin to fill your mind. What can be done so your home doesn’t … Read More
How To Unclog a Drain: 3 Tips
A lot of stuff makes its way down the drains in your home. Bits of food in the kitchen sink and hairs in the bathroom, all combine with soap and can clog your drains. The good news is there are easy ways to fix this problem. Here are a few tips: 1. TRY BOILING WATER Boil a full kettle of water and … Read More
3 Signs of a Broken Sewer Line
Your home’s main sewer line is buried beneath the yard, making it more difficult to identify a possible broken sewer line. Here are a few indicators that your sewer line could be broken: 1) EASILY CLOGGED DRAINS Every now and then, your toilet, kitchen sink or shower can experience a drain that gets a little plugged up, in these instances a … Read More