Why Drain Cleaning is Important

It’s springtime and homeowners in Calgary have been going through their closets, vacuuming the carpets, and giving their home a good scrub. But did you forget to clean your drains? 

You probably have a store-bought drain cleaning product for when the bathtub is backing up or the kitchen sink won’t drain, but putting a band-aid on the problem often won’t make it go away. Plumbing issues that seem insignificant usually end up being big problems if they aren’t properly resolved. Even if you think it’s just a slow drain, you should have complete drain cleaning to make sure it doesn’t ruin the entire system and leave you with a giant (and expensive) problem. Don’t forget, no plumbing issue is ever too insignificant to have a drain cleaning. 

There are multiple reasons why tub, sink, and toilet drains can end up clogged. For kitchen drains, the most common reasons are going to be food and grease. Make sure you run your garbage disposal and try not to throw things like grease, vegetable peels, and pasta down the drain because they will all create chaos for your pipes and other plumbing components. For For your showers, tubs, and bathroom sinks, the typical reasons for drain clogs will be hair build up, soap scum, and foreign objects. (Is your little one missing some action figures or have you realized that you can’t find your favorite bracelet?) A regular drain cleaning by a local Calgary expert will help keep these minor situations from piling up and resulting in a huge plumbing problem. 

Your toilet can also end up clogged by the typical issue of using an excessive amount of toilet paper, but also from depositing things like hair, kitty litter, cotton swabs, or flushable wipes into the septic system. 

If the pipes are clogged, by toys, hair, or anything else, it will possibly also affect the water pressure balance of your entire plumbing system. If you don’t rectify these issues right away by calling for an expert in drain cleaning, it could leave you with cracked pipes. Or more serious, your pipes could fully burst leaving you without any water in your home. 

Remember, what goes down can occasionally come up. Regrettably, you could know this already with past episodes with a clogged toilet, but the same thing can happen in your home’s sinks. Have you ever been washing dishes after a big meal and realized the water wasn’t draining and that piece of meat you stuck down there a couple minutes ago is now floating around? A routine drain cleaning, or an emergency drain cleaning when you first see the back-up, can avoid these situations completely and prevent your drains from becoming clogged and causing odor to back up into your home along with the water. 

For expert drain cleaning in Calgary, call A1 Chesney Service Experts. We are available anytime, day or night for all your plumbing needs, so if you have an urgent problem at 8:00 in the evening or it’s just been awhile since your last drain cleaning, we are happy to help.