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Drain cleaning is the act of, well, cleaning your drains out. You might think this is unnecessary. After all, doesn\u2019t water and soap run down the drains all the time? Shouldn\u2019t the frequent flow of water help clean it out? Even if the drain does clog, what else is there to do but just have it unclogged?<\/p>\n
The reason people ask these questions is that they haven\u2019t realized just how dirty drains can get, nor do they know what a dirty drain can do. In this post, we\u2019ll go over all the details.<\/p>\n
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Just to be clear, let’s go over what actually happens when drains get dirty.<\/p>\n
Many people think of clogs as just something that happens when you put trash, a bunch of hair, or something too big down the drain. While that\u2019s certainly true, the real <\/em>reason for clogs begins with an excessive amount of substances sticking to the walls of the pipes. In particular, things like fats, oils, and greases (FOG).<\/p>\n Avoiding FOG in the kitchen isn\u2019t easy, since they\u2019re usually a byproduct of our cooking. Meanwhile, in the bathroom, many of the soaps we use to wash ourselves contain these same substances. With enough FOG down the drain, the interior of the pipe will become caked with them. At that point, they start collecting all the bits of food, hair, and trash until they form the surface of a clog. As it builds, that\u2019s when you end up getting a problem, and that can lead to things like:<\/p>\n What logically follows after a dirty drain is more clogs. Of course, just clearing out the clog isn\u2019t going to be enough. The clog is just a byproduct of the main issue\u2014the dirty drain.<\/p>\n Before clogs, you might just have the annoying problem of slowly draining drains. This is actually a useful indicator to pinpoint the location of the dirty drain. If multiple appliances are becoming slow to drain, then it could be a problem with the sewage line. If it\u2019s just one appliance with issues, then you\u2019ll know that the problem is localized to that one drain.<\/p>\n If you have terrible smells coming from your drains, it\u2019s most likely sewer gas rising up from the drain system. A strong possibility is that your sewer drains are backed up and need to be cleaned. It\u2019s best to have it done as soon as possible by a Clifton, NJ plumber<\/a>, too, because the gases that escape from the sewer can be harmful to your health.<\/p>\n One type of drain blockage we didn\u2019t mention was from hard water. Hard water\u2014water that\u2019s rich with magnesium and calcium\u2014can leave limescale deposits in the inner walls of your piping. This buildup can create water pressure issues and can only be cleared out with proper cleaning.<\/p>\n In this post, we’ll go over all the details of what happens when drains get too dirty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[156,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margoplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Frequent Clogs<\/h3>\n
Drains Taking Longer to Drain<\/h3>\n
Bad Smells<\/h3>\n
Water Pressure Issues<\/h3>\n
Is it time for a proper drain cleaning?\u00a0Contact MarGo Plumbing Heating Cooling Inc. today to schedule a service!<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"