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Why Do We Need to Clean Our Drains?

 

Tenants of a building or residents of a home need clean water and effective draining of waste in order for their activities to run effectively.  When there is proper draining of waste water from your home or building, it ensures that the environment is healthy and safe for home owners and building tenants.

 

Our drains sometimes experience being blocked for various reasons.  If you need to clean your drain it takes the services of a skilled Residential Plumbing Melbourne to do it for us.  With a skilled plumber we can be sure that waste is properly drained from the home or building which results in a clean environment.

 

Drain cleaning is necessary when the drains in our homes or buildings become blocked.  Blocked drains occur due to various reasons.  Objects that are too big to pass through the drains may have found its way in the toilet and flushed down.  A blockage can also be caused by hairs washed down the sink and accumulates in the pipes.  When grease and fatty substances get stuck on the sides of the drainage, it can cause a blockage.

 

When all these types of substances accumulate in the drainage pipes, it will get blocked sooner or later.  Even unswept leaves can find their way into the drainage pipes and cause blockage.  Sometimes tree roots find moisture in the drains and so they can cause blocked drains.  Sometimes tree roots are able to crack the pipes just to get the water in it and so their presence in the pipes cause it to be blocked.

 

A hydrojetter is used by plumbers to carry out drain cleaning.  To remove the dirt that blocks the drains, the hydojetter releases water under very high pressure.  The procedure is to lower the hydrojetter into the drain and push it in until it is able to reach the blocked area. Know more about Drain Cleaning Merritt Island.

 

The blockage is broken down into small particles by the pressurized water.  The nozzles at the sides of the hydrojetter spray water to get rid of the particles stuck on the sides of the pipes.  When water pushes the blockage down the drain, waste can then freely flow without any obstacle.

 

A drain snake or a drain auger can also be used in cleaning drainage, and it is a long flexible cord made up of wires which is pushed down the drain to the area where there is a blockage.  Then a motor turns the wires which breaks down the objects causing the blockage into small particles.  When the big piece is broken down they are pushed so that the blockage can be removed and allow water to freely flow down the pipe.

 

Or, alternatively, the plumber can pull out the blockage to free the drain.  In a drain snake that does not use a motor, the plumber manually turns the equipment so that the object is trapped and it can be pulled out by the sellers.

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