Benefits of Summer Drain Cleaning

Your home's plumbing system likely gets a lot more use in the summertime, so clean drains are crucial to ensure that everything stays working properly. Having the drains professionally cleaned can give you the assurance that there's no cause for concern about plumbing clogs, blockages and backups. Drain cleaning also offers these additional benefits:

Keeping Your Home Smelling Fresh

Built up grease, deteriorating food particles, hair and soap scum in the drains can send unpleasant odors throughout the house. In the heat of summer, you can expect everything trapped in the drains to smell even worse.

Preventing Costly Water Damage

If your drains get completely blocked, they can back up and overflow and cause considerable damage to your floors. If the backup occurs in a second-story bathroom, it can also saturate the ceilings and/or walls in the rooms down below. When the drains are cleaned out, you won't have a mess to clean up, or face the cost of repairing water damage.

Avoiding Potential Health Problems

Accumulated debris in the drain lines also creates an environment where bacteria can thrive. When you have the drains cleaned out, there's less risk of a blockage that results in a backup that can contaminate your living areas with germ-laden water and waste that poses a heath hazard.

Helping the Plumbing System Last Longer

When water gets trapped in a blocked drain, it puts pressure on the pipes, which can start to leak. Using chemical products to dissolve clogs can erode the drains lines and cause them to burst. You can avoid the stress and expense of these types of plumbing system problems hiring a professional who has the tools and skills to tackle drain cleaning without causing further harm.

Eliminating Unnecessary Headaches and Stress

Dealing with sluggish drains, overflowing toilets and kitchen sink clogs can make your summer more stressful and less enjoyable. Once the drains are cleaned professionally, you can relax and enjoy the nice weather without worrying when a plumbing disaster might occur.

To learn more benefits of summer drain cleaning for your Broken Arrow home, contact us at Air Assurance.

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Common Signs of Poorly Vented Plumbing Drain Lines

Poorly vented plumbing drain lines can mimic the symptoms of other drain malfunctions. Because waste water flowing through your drain pipes can alter the pressure inside your system, outside air is required to equalize the difference.

Plumbing vents are the vertical pipes that connect to your drain system and extend straight up through the attic, venting at the roof. Like any empty pipe that terminates outdoors, plumbing vents are subject to blockages from leaves, birds nests and other obstructions, as well as improper placement at construction.

Finding and fixing the problem requires working on your roof using specialized tools, so leave it to your professional plumber. Give a qualified plumbing contractor a call if you notice any of the following symptoms of poorly vented plumbing drain lines.

Slow Drains That Don’t Clear

If drain action is sluggish and plunging or other methods don't resolve a suspected clog, you may not have a blockage in the drain line after all. An obstructed vent pipe may be causing pressure that inhibits free flow through the drain system.

Unexplained Odors

Sewer smells may indicate dry drain traps under your sink. Water in these traps continuously seal out sewer gas. If any waste forms a vacuum due to inadequate venting, water may be sucked out of the traps, permeating sewer odors throughout your home.

Gurgling and Bubbling

If noises continue to emanate from drain pipes even after the sink or tub has been emptied, you may have a poorly vented plumbing drain line. The air pressure building inside poorly vented pipes can equalize by refluxing up the drains, causing gurgling or bubbling sounds.

Poor Toilet Performance

If the flushing action of your toilet seems weak and water in the bowl is slow to rise back to level, free flow through the sewer line may be inhibited by excess pressure from a blocked vent. Oftentimes, this symptom will be accompanied by bubbles surfacing in the toilet bowl even when the fixture is idle.

In Broken Arrow, contact Air Assurance for professional service to identify the causes and cures of poorly vented plumbing drain lines.

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