Chicago Plumber Tip #15: Hard Drain Blockages
The Scottish Plumber employs a wonderful team of Chicago plumbers and Villa Park plumbers whose main concern is to provide our Chicago plumbing customers and Villa Park plumbing customers outstanding customer service and a plumbing job well done.
Our highly qualified Chicago plumbers and Villa Park plumbers are licensed to perform a wide range of plumbing repairs, pipe repairs, and plumbing maintenance, including video pipe inspection, pipe bursting sewer pipe replacement, and sewer and drain cleaning.
The Villa Park plumbers and Chicago plumbers at The Scottish Plumber want you to know that, for the purposes of simplicity, there are two types of Chicago drain blockages. There are hard blockages and soft blockages, and both types of blockages can result in clogged drains, clogged sewers, overflowing toilets, or slow drains. For this Chicago plumber article, we will focus on hard drain blockages.
Hard drain blockages can appear in Chicago drains and Chicago sewers. Hard drain blockages include sewer roots, objects such as bath toys, and mineral buildup. They are so named because they are literally hard to the touch. If a Chicago plumber were to feed a drain snake down a toilet drain with a hard blockage, the drain snake would initially come up hard against the blockage.
Hard blockages, therefore, require more advanced plumbing solutions than a drain snake can provide. Our Chicago plumbers might try video pipe inspection to get a closer look at the blockage itself, at which time chemical drain cleaning or sewer rodding may be required.
We were recently featured in an article about home repairs on Porch where we provided some advice on when to try to clear the clog yourself and when to call us.