How keeping up on your home’s drain cleaning can affect you and your pocketbook.

Water drain lines through out your home, carry gray water and sewage out to the sewer. Drain cleaning is key in keeping your lines clear and flowing as part of a healthy home. Most people often ignore their pipes and drains until something goes wrong. At this point, it’s too late. Dirty, smelly and bacteria filled water has already soaked your floors, and perhaps your walls. The damage is already done.

Happy, Healthy Pipes!

Happy dain peipesChecking your pipes for visible leaks is simple home repair and great preventative maintenance. Spotting a problem before hand is the best way for residents to keep their home healthy, and keep unexpected repairs at bay. Pipes throughout your whole house take waster water from sinks, toilets and showers through the yard, and eventually leading it to your septic system, or city sewer connection. It is important to keep all these plumbing lines clean, and your drains flowing well. More importantly, being aware of the main drain lines to the street and whether or not they are flowing properly. This is where an inspection by a professional is vital.

Quick flowing water that goes straight down the drain is a sign that your drains are working well. Eventually these drain lines get clogged up with the accumulation of soap scum, food, grease, hair, and even odds-and-ends that fall down the drain.

At the first sign of slow draining, you should call a drain cleaning specialist like ARF Septic and Plumbing. ARF Septic can use the proper tools and chemicals to keep your drains clear, without damaging the pipes or fittings. Using new tools like camera line inspection is a safe way to see what going on down there. Even the smallest sink clog can cause serious flooding, and cause drywall damage.

Such flooding is usually not covered by your homeowners insurance. A qualified professional plumber can unclog your drains, and repair any plumbing issues fast, saving you money.

Key Benefits of Proper Maintenance

Preventative maintenance is even more effective; regular drain cleaning in homes can stop these drains from clogging, breeding bacteria, and eventually flooding homes. For the best prevention homeowners should have their bathtub, shower, and sink drains cleaned by a professional once each year.

Clogs do not happen only in the drains that lead directly from your plumbing fixtures, but also in your larger sewer lines. The plumbing fixture lines connect to larger plumbing sewer lines that run underneath the home, then out into the yard. These lines often become blocked by tree roots, resulting in sewage backing up into the home, usually through floor drains, in the lower level of the home.

This can be a serious problem, particularly for the older, more established neighborhoods where large trees, with established, far reaching root systems, are common.

Fortunately, with this type of blockage drain cleaning professionals can help, sending a rotating blade, called a snake, into your sewer lines, freeing trapped, accumulated debris, and removing tree roots from the lines.

Early Detection of Clogs!

Proper maintenance to the drain lines in your home’s plumbing systems prevents serious clogs and back-ups. When a clog is caught early, inexpensive plumbing repair can remove the clog, restoring free-flowing water to your waste water system, and ensuring that your home stays free of sewer water. This keeps you and your family dry and healthy.

Plumbing maintenance is a very important for keeping your water running properly through your home. So, take the time to perform the proper maintenance throughout your homes drainage system to optimize your drain cleaning success.

If you ever notice something that is not working properly with your home water system, it is always best to call a professional plumbing contractor like ARF Septic and Plumbing to take a look at the problem.

If you are in the need of a professional plumber, Call ARF Septic today (954) 962-7330