Pouring Chemicals Into Your Drains Is NOT Drain Cleaning

Drain cleaning is an essential service we offer for homes. But the name drain cleaning often triggers confusion in people. They hear those words, and their minds immediately leap to those bottles of “drain cleaners” found on the shelves of many stores. Advertising and promotion have fixed the idea in people’s heads that pouring the chemicals in these bottles down a drain is a form of “drain cleaning,” or an effective way to remove obstructions from a drain.

But this isn’t drain cleaning. It’s not an excellent method to unclog drains either. Your plumbing in Albuquerque, NM, deserves much better than these chemicals.

What’s wrong with chemical drain cleaners?

Chemicals, for one thing. Those innocuous-looking bottles on the shelf of your local store are containers of highly acidic chemicals. This is why the bottles have warning labels to keep them away from children and pets and be careful about handling them. You don’t want these chemicals on your skin, in your eye, or to inhale their fumes.

With all that warning, do you think you should pour these acids down your drain? Here are a few of the problems this creates:

  • The chemical solution’s acidic action will eat away at the inside of drainpipes, damaging both metal and plastic.
  • The acids can react with soap scum inside the drains and cause corrosion.
  • The residue of the chemicals will remain behind for days and even months, causing further damage.
  • The chemicals may eat away enough clog in a drain to allow water through. Still, they leave most clogs behind, offering only a temporary solution.
  • The chemicals create harmful fumes in your home.

Our simple advice for chemical drain cleaners is don’t use them.

So how can I clean my drains?

If you have a minor clog in a single drain, use a standard sink/toilet plunger and then a hand-cranked drain snake to see if you can clear it. If these don’t work, call for a plumber to use more powerful tools to unclog the drain.

If you want thorough drain cleaning around the home as a preventive measure, this is a great idea—schedule complete drain cleaning with our team. We don’t use chemicals for this job. We have a range of different drain cleaning methods, but we rely on the most is hydro-jetting. This process blasts high-pressure water out of a hose inserted into the drains to clean the interior walls of debris. It won’t harm the pipes (provided you allow a trained professional to do the job). It will clear all material inside the pipes, from food waste build-up to limescale. Your drains will be in near-mint condition after we’re done.

We recommend having preventive drain cleaning scheduled once a year. This will help stop most future drain clogs and ensure the plumbing system works at its best.

Why wait for service when you can get it Express? Call Santa Fe Express Plumbing & Drain for your drain cleaning—we’re already on the way!

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