What To Expect From a Professional Drain Service
You should include drain cleaning in your routine home maintenance so that your plumbing works properly. Although you should hire a professional plumber whenever you have severe clogging or slow-drain problems, scheduling drain cleaning as a yearly routine is essential. It will help reduce repair concerns, prevent issues with high water pressure, and offer your plumbing a much longer life.
“Drain cleaning” is frequently associated with pouring chemicals down a sink. But professional drain cleaners don’t use caustic chemicals to clear drains because doing so could harm your plumbing. Instead, they take every precaution to keep your drainpipes in great shape. What good is cleaning a drain if it makes it worse than it was before, after all?
Here is what to expect from a professional drain service:
Cabling
A drain snake is standard equipment for unclogging a blocked drain, sink, tub, or toilet. Snaking, often referred to as cabling, entails inserting a long, thin, flexible auger into your drain pipe. It has a metal coil inside that you may twist downward to release or hook onto a blockage and remove it. Using a drain auger to clear simple drain issues is a common place to start when cleaning a drain.
Drain Relining
You can also expect drain relining during a professional drain cleaning service. Drain relining is a technique for repairing broken drainage pipes without using the standard excavation approach. It involves inserting a new pipe, known as a lining, into a broken drainage pipe. This no-dig repair technology uses a drain sleeve resembling glass-reinforced plastic.
Drain relining can be used to repair circumferential or radial cracks brought on by blockages and open or leaking joints. Additionally, it works wonders against root incursion, a problem mainly affecting old clay drainage pipes.
Hydro Jetting
A hydro-jetter is a powerful plumbing instrument that uses motors to put water under extremely high pressure. It blasts out of a nozzle at the end of a hose inserted into the drain pipes as the primary tool for drain cleaning.
The power of the water (often greater than 7,000 psi) cleans the inside of the pipes and eliminates nearly all types of buildup. Drains that have been adequately hydro-jetted will remain clean for a long time.
Trenchless Pipe Relining
If your sewer pipeline is built of clay, concrete, or iron, it may already be failing. Instead of digging up existing sewer pipes, trenchless pipe relining has become the standard rehabilitation method.
Trenchless pipe relining professionals only need to build a small access pit at each end of the pipe, eliminating the need to dig a long trench that can be as deep as 15 feet from home to the curb. The next step involves inserting a flexible tube that resembles neoprene and is resin-coated before blowing compressed air into the sleeve to force it outward against the inside walls of the original pipe.
The End Note
Plumbers frequently use video pipe inspections to decide how to best approach the drain cleaning procedure to provide a complete cleaning. It’s best to contact The Drain Man for a thorough drain cleaning service.
