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Drain Obstruction Guidelines

Drain Obstruction Guidelines

It's hard for many people to imagine today, but there was actually a time when any sewer drain clogs or breakages had to be dealt with by completely digging up the affected pipe to be able to repair or replace it. A drain problem that is easily fixed today, due to unclogging chemicals and modern plumbing equipment, posed a tremendous problem only a hundred years ago. And while waste water transportation systems for example clay pipes and aqueducts are already around for thousands of years, it's only in recent history that we have developed methods for maintaining our buried drains without doing any digging.

The drain snake, often known as a drain rodding system or drain rooter, was developed about a century ago in the country by a man who used a washing machine motor and roller skates to build his first model. It sounds strange, but it's true! This early example of the drain snake rooter went on to sell thousands of units during the great depression, and also the machine that plumbers use today to clean tree roots as well as other obstructions through your drains is still much the same to the original design.

The Drain Blocked snake allows plumbers to clear obstructions from your drains by rotating a robust auger attached to the end of a flexible steel cable. This auger literally slices through tree roots, clogs as well as other obstructions, allowing waste water to flow through unobstructed. Different sized drain snakes exist for several sized pipes, from small hand operated units for home bathtub clogs to much larger electric industrial units. Sewer drain snakes can usually solve most clog problems, unless it involves breakages or coagulated grease buildup.

For grease and oil buildup on pipes, the more effective option is to use a moder high pressure water drain jetting system. High pressure water jetting is not simply putting a hose into a sewer drain and spraying out the blockages. Instead, it is actually an extremely sophisticated piece of specialized machinery that uses modern technology to blast heated, high pressure water backwards by way of a drain so that you can eliminate clogs. High pressure drain jetting works well on oil and grease buildup since it literally melts the layers and blasts them out before it has the possibility to solidify again.

In ages past, a job that would took days or weeks to fix using picks and shovels can now be completed in mere minutes as a result of modern drain snakes and sewer drain jetting systems. While high pressure drain jetting can be higher priced due to the high cost of purchasing the specialized machinery itself, you may most likely locate a company in your area that will offer you an affordable price to snake or jet your drains.