Here at Texas green plumbing just want to talk to you today about drain cleaning and what is drain cleaning
Drain cleaning. What is drain cleaning? Drain cleaning is when your sewer line has stopped up. Whether it is your
Main drain coming out of your house
We've all go most of us have a clean-out or a two-way clean-out in the front yard
The back if your sewer drains out the back if your main drain is stopped up between your house and in the city
What's gonna happen is when you go to open up that?
Two-way clean-out or one-way clean-out you're gonna see that
It's full of water now if you've got water up to the top of your toilet or water standing in a tub
Any sewer water in your house like that where it's built up and standing there what you want to do
Is you want to be very careful taking that clean out plug off because what's going to happen is
Pressure is gonna push it up and
I've literally seen it spray up a foot or two
you don't want to get you know class three sewer water all over you so what you want to do is if
It's a gem cap on there. Take the screwdriver loosen it up slowly let your foot up off of the lid
Lightly and let that pressure out
if
If you if you have a stopped up main a good thing to do is go out and take that off
Because what will happen is if you've got water standing inside your house
And you take that cover off that water will come up out in your yard
And I know that's not a good thing because now you're gonna get toilet paper. You're gonna get bodily waste out there
You're gonna get everything out there, but the good thing about it. Is if you've got it out in your yard
You don't have it coming up inside your house
Other kind of stoppages you can have you can have an arm meaning you can have a
Stopped-up kitchen sink and it can be your waist arm in your wall, or a lavatory
Washer machines tend to stop up. They normally tend to stop up down in the p-trap down on the bottom
But if that line also ties into catch, say, your kitchen waste line
the soaps and the greases can all tie up together and
Congeal, and get hard and create blockages that you really don't want to have
so
Products that we recommend we recommend Bio One
Which is a good
Product that you can use all the time to help keep your sewers clean, but there's different ways to clean out your sewer
We've got sewer machines. We've got small machines called sink top machines that that can actually go in
Right there
Where your sink drain goes in
we've got bigger machines that we can carry up on the roof and go down through a vent and then we've got a
Big Spartan that we can actually eat up roots in your front yard or backyard if you've got
Trees that the roots are getting into the sewer line and causing blockages. We've got a machine that will help eat that up
One thing that we do we like to run a camera down because we want to know number one did we get it clear?
But also is there a break in the line is there something here
That's gonna cause you problems because here's what can happen guys if you've got a break in the line
Your sewer can clog up and it can create damage to the inside of your house, so that's why we come in we always recommend
not just cleaning the line, but
Making sure that we find out is it completely clean did we get it taken care of?
Or is there anything else that we need to do?
another type cleaning that we recommend sometimes is a hydrojet a
hydrojet
Actually is a long
Hose that has water and an extremely high pressure that can spray and clean the inside of the pipe. Now,
Sometimes you may need to clean it out with the sewer machine first then come in with the hydro jetter and clean out the line
Literally you can go through and almost
return your sewer line to what it looked like when it was built brand new so
Cleaning out that line is a good thing
It makes your drains work better, but also once you clean it out like that if you run a camera through it
You can literally see any problems that you have with your sewer system
One of the things that we use as plumbers is called a blow bag
And what a blow bag is is it's a rubber or a cloth bag
That has a flow restrictor built in it and you put it on the end of a water hose
and you position it right you turn it on and open it in that bag swells up and seals off and
Then forces water out the end of it
And if you've got a solid blockage what this will do it'll create so much pressure there that it has to push that blockage out
And clear up the line
Again, we still like coming in and making sure with a camera that
Not only did we get the blockage out, but good looking find out what created that blockage?
Some people have roots on the line some people have a break in the line some people may have bellies
And if you've got bellies things can build up and create problems that you really don't want to have
so
Those are three different ways that you can unstop a blockage some of these things are things that you can do
I will tell you this if you go to one of the big-box stores or a rental place
And you rent a sewer machine be extremely careful when you use it those machines are very dangerous
I've seen plumbers break fingers
I've heard of people renting them and breaking their arm
That is a solid steel cable that has a motor that twists it
And if you push it down in that sewer line
And it gets gall it up it can twist that cable wrap around grab your shirt your arm your jacket your gloves
Anything at all that you've got on and guys that still cable can break your arm, so my name is Roger, Wakefield
I'm with Texas green plumbing if you have any questions about this any comments. You'd like to leave, please leave the comments
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