Drain Cleaning Blog

I spent much of my youth standing at the single-bowl sink in my family’s kitchen doing things like canning peaches, preparing the crab for Christmas Eve dinner, and, of course, washing dishes. This sink was a white, porcelain beauty that got a whole lot of use and...

Your laundry room (or laundry area) is seldom a place that you go to hang out and relax. Usually, it’s the place you go to iron a work shirt, run a load of whites so you have clean underwear in the morning, or sanitize all of the towels, sheets, and blankets affected...

Some might call it unfortunate that the light blue, pastel pink, and avocado green commodes that adorned their grandmothers’ bathrooms have gone the way of the earth. It’s true that they provided prime opportunities for color coordinating with bathmats, tubs and trash...

Whenever I get to thinking about how water and pests go together, I can’t help but visualize that scene from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” You know the one? Let me offer a brief recap: Indiana and Elsa are trekking down the catacombs to try and find the tomb...

There are two main appliances that do a lot of the cleaning for you: your dishwasher and your washing machine. Let’s take a moment to reflect on all of the time and energy these two appliances save us: (a moment) They really are the unsung heroes of the appliance...

My first experience with truly terrible water happened in a tiny little town that was barely a blip on the map. The town motto, in fact, was “Don’t blink! This town is bigger than you think!” The water left a rusty red residue in the shower and smelled so strongly of...

PVC is probably something you’ve heard a lot about but don’t know many specifics. You’ve seen it around your house in its most common form as long white pipes or the bendy pipes under your sink, but you may not know much more than that. Luckily for you, today we are...

There are plenty of commercials nowadays for different kinds of water softeners and conditioners to help homeowners battle the enemy that is hard water. However, other than saying hard water is bad, these commercials rarely say why. This begs the question: Is hard...

The smell of sewage is distinct and can be nauseating. What’s worse is that from the moment you first smell it, the problem only seems to get more pungent. Sewer pipes are, in a way, a lot like your big toe: you don’t pay them much attention until they aren’t working...