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  • How to Unclog My Drain

    How to Unclog Any Drain in Your Home or Business

    Health Concerns with a Plumbing Backup near Palm Springs, palm desert, cathedral city, Rancho Mirage, and the Coachella ValleyClogged drains suck. They’re messy, and if it’s your toilets, gross! Your worst fear is having to call a plumber. If you want to learn how to unclog any drain in your home or business, read this article. There are a few steps a homeowner can take to resolve drain issues before calling the pros at Sand ‘n Sea Drain Co.

    Break Out the Plunger

    When you think of plunging, you think of toilets. You’re asking, “but what if it’s my sink?” Believe it or not, most often the plunger will get it. Use hot water to help, but make sure not to use boiling water in these steps. Plastic pipes are not designed to hold boiling water and can cause serious damage to your pipes.

    Follow these simple steps on how to plunge a sink, shower, tub, or floor drain:how to unclog my drain

    1. Cover the overflow hole (for sinks and tubs). That little hole in the sink connects to the drain and needs to be blocked for the plunger to work. Use either a rag or your hand to block the hole.
    2. Place the cup of the plunger (the side you’d stick in the toilet) directly over the center of the drain. Make sure the mouth of the plunger cup is wet to create a good seal.
    3. Use quick, sharp, up and down motions to force air through the pipe. If the problem is still in the sink line, the forced air should blow it right out. This could take a while, depending on severity and condition of the pipes.
    4. Check your progress. If the standing water has gone down, you’ve successfully cleared the blockage. Run hot water and make sure it continues to drain.

    Try a Homemade Drain Cleaner Solution

    how to unclog my drainTraditional drain cleaners that you would find in the store are made with harmful, caustic chemicals. Those gel drain unclog products can actually destroy your drain pipes. If you use these chemicals, and they don’t solve your clogged pipes, a plumber will almost certainly charge you much more to solve the problem.

    However, there are products around your home you can use to unclog your sink, shower, bath, and floor drain pipes. These products are safe to use! For drains that don’t clear with hot water and a plunger, grab baking soda, white vinegar, and a rag or drain stopper.

     

    1. Pour 1/2 cup of baking soda down drain.
    2. Pour 1/2 cup of white vinegar down drain.
    3. Grab rag or drain stopper and plug the drain IMMEDIATELY! The mixture will cause a foaming effect and won’t worked unless pressure is formed in the pipe.
    4. Leave plugged for about an hour.
    5. After an hour has passed, check the drain. Open the plug and run HOT water down. It is best to have a pot of hot, not boiling water ready.
    6. If the hot water goes down, then the drain cleaner solution was a success! If the drain is still plugged, you may want to consider calling the pros at Sand ‘n Sea Drain Co.

    We Believe in DIY and Have the Tools for When You Can’t

    Sand ‘n Sea Drain Company was built on the idea of DIY. Everyone should have a basic understanding on how to solve the basic issues around their home and offer these solutions anytime we can! Sometimes, the problems just can’t be resolved through normal at-home methods, and the big tools need to come out.

    If these methods don’t work for your Coachella Valley drain issue, call The Drain Guys at (760) 333-1857. We guarantee we can unclog your drain, or you don’t pay!

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  • Health Concerns with a Plumbing Backup

    Health Concerns with a Plumbing Backup

    Health Concerns with a Plumbing Backup near Palm Springs, palm desert, cathedral city, Rancho Mirage, and the Coachella Valley

    When sewer drains backup, it’s an obvious problem that needs to be addressed. There are obvious health concerns with a plumbing backup. Sewerage pouring onto your floors is a nightmare. It’s messy, it smells bad, and worst of all, it can make you sick. The bacteria present in sewer systems should always be contained to the sewer pipes. When the pipe is blocked up, it allows the bacteria to remain and grow.

    Ok, but what if your drains are just draining slow? Not a big deal, right?

    WRONG!

    Slow draining pipes are just as much of a health concern as backed up drains. You’re standing in your shower and you have water at your ankles. You’re allowing that bacteria around you! A slow drain is a symptom of a possible failing sewer system. When the sewer systems are blocked, and the waste flow remains stagnant, the bacteria feeds on the waste and produces its own waste, most commonly in the form of H2S, or hydrogen sulfide gas. Hydrogen sulfide gas permeates the air, and when that happens you are at risk of inhaling the H2S gas and causing serious permanent damage to your body. When the H2S gas mixes with the mucus membrane that protects parts of your body, it turns into hydro sulfuric acid. This hydro sulfuric acid will cause permanent damage to your lungs, eyes, nose, etc.

    The health concerns with a plumbing backup are real, and can easily be avoided.

    A sewer or septic backup might seem like a minor inconvenience, but don’t let it turn into something much worse, a deadly gas that could threaten your whole family. If you have a sewer backup, call or text The Drain Guys at Sand ‘n Sea Drain Company. (760) 333-1857. Available Monday through Friday from 7 AM to 6 PM, and Saturdays by appointment.

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  • To dig or not to dig, that is the question

    To dig or not to dig, that is the question

    A pipe breaks and backs up. You call your plumber. He gives you a quote. Is their solution the only solution? Here at Sand ‘n Sea Drain Co., we believe every problem needs a tailored approach. There is no one size fits all option. Sure, you can dig where the problem is, but is that the only real option?

     

    Sometimes you don’t have a choice but to dig, specifically in cases where the line has completely failed. This is actually pretty rare. In most cases, the damaged pipe can be salvaged from a remote access using cured in place methods of pipe repair. Often, for unfortunate reasons unbeknownst to us, the problems seem to happen under the house under slabs. In a raised foundation home, the best option will probably be to crawl underneath the home from an access door and make the repairs from underneath, much like when you take your car to the mechanic and they put it on a lift.

     

    In cases of solid foundation homes, the solution may be to break up floors inside the building or residence and make a sectional repair from there, or to trench the whole line running through the middle of your home. This can put your home out of commission for several weeks. What if you didn’t have to do that?

     

    Cured in place technology is just what it sounds like, its new pipe formed to the shape of your old pipe. This is a favorable solution because the new line can be installed from outside of the building or residence in a matter of hours, not weeks, giving you the freedom to stay in your home or business while the work is being done. Using plastic resins saturated into a felt liner, the new pipe is formed by inverting the liner with air into your existing system. Using a special bladder, the liner is pressed to the shape of the host pipe, filling in joints and cracks, blocking roots, and sealing off holes.

     

    Gone are the days of traditional trenching! Pipe lining technology is used throughout the world every single day, saving customers on average 30% overall on project costs, while only minimally disrupting service.

     

    If your home or business has a failing sewer line, and another contractor wants to dig it up, give us a call and let us take another look. We may just be able to save you unnecessary costs and downtime!

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