CLOGGED AND PLUGGED DRAINS

My kitchen sink drain is plugged & backing up!  My bathtub drain is clogged!  These two common complaints about plugged and clogged drains may be preventable.  In the kitchen, the common causes of a clogged pipes are fats, oils and grease (FOGs) that are washed down the sink.  These same fats, oils and grease, when they cool, will return to their solid state and can coat the inside of the drain pipe and start to build-up narrowing the diameter of the pipe and impeding the flow of the drain.  If the drain pipe becomes narrowed enough, then it can become easily clogged and that is when the drain becomes plugged.  If you’re consistent in scraping off plates before rinsing them off in the sink, you can cut down the amount of FOGs going into your drain thus prevening the eventual clogged pipe.

Another problem can be created by putting the wrong type of waste in the garbage disposal.  The garbage disposal drops debri into the main waste drain beneath the kitchen sink.  So if you put fibrous vegetables into the disposal, those same fibrous materials will end up going into the kitchen sink which will be the eventual culprit to any plugged pipe.  Add in FOGs building-up in the waste line pipe and you have the recipe for a clogged kitchen drain.

In the bathroom, the culprit is usually hair.  A simple way to keep hair out of the clogged pipe is to install a fine mesh basket to fit inside or on top of the pipe to prevent hair from going down the pipe.  Long, fine hair can quickly build up to clog the drain and preventing the hair from entering the tub/shower drain is a simple, easy way to avoid having the drain snaked.

We are Seattle’s Best Plumber.  If your looking for an affordable solution for resolving your plugged pipe then Beacon Plumbing can send out a licensed plumber for any residential or commerical clogged pipe.  Don’t let hair, grease, waste, fats, oils and garbage keep your sink, tub, shower or sewer line remain plugged up.  Beacon Plumbing can remove any and all clogged pipes and get your residential and commerical plumbing drains back in working order.

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