The plumbing system in your Massachusetts home is a crucial part of your daily life and routine. This system brings needed running water and carries away waste to keep your home convenient, comfortable, and clean. However, if you don’t properly care for the system, you’ll have a mess on your hands. With regular drain cleaning, you can keep the drainage system healthy and flowing smoothly so you can enjoy your day without messy problems. Take a look at the following information on how we perform professional drain cleaning and why it is crucial for your system, then give us a call to schedule your services.
How Is Drain Cleaning Performed?
Our plumbers take a careful and thorough approach when cleaning your home’s drainage system. We begin by using a camera to scope out the drains and look for issuess such as damage to the drain pipes and extensive clogs that may require extra focus. We may then use a drain snake or auger to loosen and move any stubborn blockages. Once that step is complete, we use high-pressure water to blast buildup from the drains and leave behind a clear pathway for waste to travel through.
DIY drain cleaning is inadvisable, as it can cause more harm than good. Drain cleaning chemicals are harsh and can damage your drain pipes while posing health risks if you get them on your skin or ingest them. Always call a professional plumber to address drain issues and keep the drainage system in top shape.
How Often Do I Need to Schedule Professional Drain Cleaning?
Keeping your drains healthy and clear requires regular drain cleaning services. Our plumbers strongly encourage scheduling cleaning once a year to stay on top of buildup and gunk and avoid the problems that this buildup can cause over time.
The Importance of Regular Drain Cleaning
Now that you know what drain cleaning is, it’s important to understand why you need the service regularly. With proper drain cleaning on a routine basis, you’ll enjoy a number of benefits and avoid the hassles that dirty drains can cause, as outlined below.
Removed Blockages and Obstructions
No matter how careful you are, foreign substances find a way down the drain. This includes food particles, hair, and other debris. As these substances stick inside the drains, they accumulate and narrow the space within the drain and pipes. With in-depth drain cleaning, our plumbers ensure all the buildup is flushed from the drain pipes. This removed blockages that impede drainage.
Prevents Clogs
Rather than wait for a problem to occur, schedule drain cleaning regularly and avoid clogs in the first place. With an annual cleaning service, our plumbers help you prevent massive clogs in your drains that can slow or stop drainage. Cleaning your drains every year means that buildup doesn’t have time to accumulate to the point of a complete blockage, so long as you are mindful of what goes down the drains. However, if you do have a clog between visits, we can help with that as well.
Eliminates Foul Odors
Rotten food, moldy hair, and other nasty items stuck in the drains can create a horrible smell that creeps up the drain pipes and into your home. These smells can stink up your entire home if the offending debris isn’t removed. With in-depth drain cleaning, our plumbers push the smelly food particles and foreign substances out of the drain pipes and off to the sewer, leaving you with an odor-free drainage system.
Restores Quiet Drainage
Your drain pipes should empty quietly aside from the gentle swoosh of water as it moves through. If you have rattling, whistling, gurgling, or other strange noises as waste drains, you have an accumulation of buildup that is causing problems. Once we remove the contaminants and foreign matter from the drains, you’ll have quiet drainage once again.
Improves Drainage Speeds
As buildup accumulates inside your drain pipes, the passageway for waste to move through is narrowed. When this happens, waste cannot leave your fixtures as quickly. Though it may not be clogged enough to leave water standing, it could cause the waste to stay longer. This means that you might have water pooling at your feet while trying to shower. You could have to spend extra time waiting for the sink to empty so you can rinse it clean. With drain cleaning, the drain pipes are fully clear so that waste can move through quickly.
Protects Pipes
Your drain pipes are more susceptible to damage and wear when contaminants are left to build up inside them. Some contaminants can cause your pipes to corrode. This corrosion eventually leads to small holes in the pipes. These small holes allow water to escape from the drain pipes and leak into other areas of your home causing water damage. Large and heavy blockages can weigh on your pipes and cause them to burst, creating a huge mess in your home that you may not even notice right away. With heavy buildup, you’ll face hefty repair costs and even catastrophic damage to your home.
Removes Contaminants and Toxins
Mold, mildew, and bacteria love dark and damp spaces. Drains are an excellent place for these organisms to grow and flourish, especially when contaminants build up. They not only harm your drain pipes but can continue to grow until they reach surfaces outside of the drains. When this happens, you face health consequences if you contaminate your food or your skin with spores or bacteria. Professional drain cleaning ensures these organisms are washed away so you have a healthy system free of harmful substances.
Prevents Floods and Overflows
If waste has nowhere to go, you could have a flood or overflow on your hands. If the toilet doesn’t flush, the sink doesn’t empty, or the washing machine drain line is blocked, the waste and water will come back the other way. Floods and overflows can wreak havoc on your home and not only create plumbing issues but may also leave you with extensive renovation costs. If water floods out of the fixture or drain, you may wind up needing to replace flooring, walls, ceilings, and nearby belongings. Routine drain cleaning ensures your waste moves through the drainage system quickly and without obstruction so you can avoid these devastating problems.
Schedule Drain Cleaning With the Experts Today
With the top professional plumbers, you’ll get the best drain cleaning services. DeWolfe Plumbing, Heating & Cooling has been serving Massachusetts for over 90 years, growing from a one-man operation to employing a staff of plumbers and technicians. Our plumbers are extensively trained in not only drain cleaning but also all your other household plumbing services. Let us handle your kitchen and bathroom plumbing with services including pipe repair, fixture installation, and leak detection. We also provide water heater, water treatment, and sewer services to keep your plumbing system healthy and functional.
We provide skilled furnace and air conditioner repairs, replacements, and maintenance, as well as heat pumps, mini-splits, and boilers. We are proud to be a Diamond contractor and offer a variety of Mitsubishi Electric products, but we also service all models of equipment.
Call the professional plumbers at DeWolfe Plumbing, Heating & Cooling today to enjoy healthy, clean, and obstruction-free drains with our in-depth drain cleaning services.
