Clean drains are essential to a healthy plumbing system in your Shreveport home. Annual drain cleaning by a professional is the best way to keep your drains clean, ensuring water and waste flow freely to the sewer. At Bobby L Greene Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Co., our plumbers can get all the gunk and debris out of your drain pipes, leaving you with an open pathway for waste.
What Is Professional Drain Cleaning?
Professional drain cleaning involves multiple steps and a variety of tools and equipment to ensure all foreign materials and contaminants are removed from your drains. Professional plumbers may first start with an inspection of your plumbing, looking for signs of leaks or sagging pipes that may indicate blockages and other damage caused by buildup inside the drains. They might use a camera and scoping equipment to search for large obstructions. Drain snakes and augers are tools used to help break up large clogs and dislodge them so that they can be flushed out of the drain. Finally, professional plumbers will use high-pressure water to blast anything that remains, cleaning out all contaminants and washing the walls of the pipes clean.
Why Do I Need a Professional Plumber?
Without proper training and tools, you could damage your pipes and lead to worse problems than you had to begin with. Drain snakes and augers require specialized knowledge to avoid making a clog worse and to prevent damage to the pipes. You should never stick a foreign object down the drain to dislodge a clog. Doing so could cause you to puncture your pipes, leading to leaks and requiring pipe repair or replacement. You could also get the object stuck, which could make the blockage even worse.
Even liquid drain cleaning agents that you can buy at the store should be avoided. These products have harsh chemicals that can cause erosion inside your drain. As the drain pipes erode, you’ll have small holes where water and waste can leak out, creating a disastrous mess. When your drains require cleaning, you need a professional to prevent damage to your pipes and home.
Benefits of Regular Professional Drain Cleaning
Experts recommend scheduling professional drain cleaning once a year to keep your pipes clean and clear. Drain cleaning can also be scheduled in response to a problem, though you’ll miss the perks when you don’t have the service done on a routine basis.
Remove Obstructions and Buildup
Even with care, foreign materials often find their way into your drains. Over time, these materials can build up and create an obstruction which can slow or stop drainage through that particular pipe. Drain cleaning blasts away all the buildup and leaves your drains clear.
Prevent Future Clogs
When performed annually, you’ll have an extremely low risk of clogs in your drains. Even though some food, hair, and other materials will find their way into the plumbing, they may not have enough time between cleanings to form a complete blockage inside your pipes.
Improve Drainage Speed
Even small obstructions can cause your pipes to drain slower than normal. When this happens, you may not even notice the slowed drainage until you have standing water in your sink or shower. Once the buildup is removed, you might be surprised how quickly your plumbing fixtures empty.
Eliminate Foul Odors
One of the top signs of buildup inside your drains is a foul odor coming from your fixture. This foul odor may be caused by rotting food or moldy contaminants that are stuck somewhere inside the drain. The only way to get rid of the nasty smell is through professional drain cleaning services. Drain cleaning washes away the offending materials, taking the smell with them.
Prevent Noisy Pipes
If you hear gurgling, popping, or other strange noises when your plumbing fixtures drain, you may have a blockage somewhere in the plumbing lines. These noises are due to imbalanced pressure and water having to squeeze through narrowed passageways. Once your drains are clean and foreign matter is gone, you should have quiet drainage.
Increase the Lifespan of Your Plumbing System
Buildup and clogs in your pipes can create problems for the pipes themselves. Some buildup may weigh on your pipes and cause them to sag. With too much added weight, the pipes may burst or come apart, leading to a catastrophic water leak. Other foreign material that sits inside your drains can cause the pipes to corrode, leading to small holes that allow water to escape the plumbing system. When your pipes leak, you’ll be faced with hiring a plumber to repair or replace them. Depending on the nature of the damage and the location of the pipes in question, pipe repair and replacement can be very costly.
Water damage from leaking pipes can often go unnoticed for quite some time while ruining walls, ceilings, floors, and other parts of your home. This water damage adds to the repair and replacement bills you face when you neglect to have your drains cleaned by a professional plumber.
Prevent Floods, Overflows, and Backups
When your drains are clogged, the water and waste cannot flow through the pipes to the sewer or septic system. When this happens, you’ll have water sitting in your sink, tub, or toilet with no way to get rid of it. If you aren’t paying attention, these fixtures can overflow and flood, leading to water spilling out where it doesn’t belong. Clogs may also cause plumbing backups, where water and waste come back up through the drain rather than leaving through the sewer pipes. If you have a clog somewhere down the line and water and waste cannot flow past it, the waste may come back up through other drains.
Remove Toxins and Contaminants
Mold, mildew, and bacteria thrive in dark and moist environments. Your plumbing system is a perfect breeding ground for these toxins, especially when you have a buildup of rotten food, hair, and other materials. Mold and mildew can creep up your drains and spread into the openings of your fixtures, leading to health concerns. Bacteria inside the pipes can also spread and cause illness. Our plumbers spray water to dislodge all contaminants in the drains, washing away the toxins as well.
Professional Plumbing Services
As a local, family-owned business, Bobby L Greene Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Co. strives to provide the highest quality plumbing services to our neighbors in the Shreveport area. We have over 60 years of experience in plumbing, making us one of the most experienced and skilled plumbing companies. Aside from drain cleaning, our plumbers can tackle all your household plumbing needs, including clogged toilets, dripping faucets, and leaking pipes. Count on us for pipe repair and replacement, garbage disposal services, leak detection, and so much more. When you call our plumbers, we’ll give top-notch service in an efficient, prompt, and professional manner.
Keep your drains clean, clear, and healthy with professional drain cleaning services. Call Bobby L Greene Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Co. to get the top plumbers in Shreveport.
