Holiday Tips

The holidays are imminent, bringing together family, friends, and a few plumbing emergencies.  Many Americans take part in holiday celebrations with 10 or more guests.  These additional guests put a strain on your home’s plumbing system, which results in more emergency calls to plumbing and drain companies like us.

Big holiday meals require a busy kitchen.  Too much grease and food finds their way into the kitchen drain or disposer.  Holiday guests also equate to extra showers, bath, and lots of extra toilet flushes.  It all adds up to potential plumbing disasters.

Pipes clog because of gradual buildup of grease, hair, soap, food particles, etc.  All it takes is one major overload, like a house full of guests, to exasperate the situation and cause a clogged drain.  Follow these tips to avoid having to call us in an emergency:

In the kitchen:

-Avoid pouring fats or cooking oils down the drain, because liquid fats solidify in the pipes and cause clogs.  Wipe congealed grease from pots.

-Never put hard-to-grind, stringy, fibrous waste into the garbage disposer (poultry skins, carrots, celery, pumpkin pulp, banana peels).  The disposer can’t sufficiently grind these items and they will clog your sink drain.

-Run cold water down the drain for about 15 seconds before and after using the garbage disposer to flush waste down the main line.

-Turn on the disposer before adding food debris.

-Run the dishwasher and washing mechanism at night or at off times to conserve water temperature and pressure for your guests.

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