Why You Should Invest in Annual Drain Cleaning for Your Home

There are plenty of home maintenance tricks you probably are aware of such as keeping your house painted every five years or so, inspecting your roof for indicators of damage that can lead to leaks and water damage and even checking your fireplace for soot buildup a few times a year. But there are some tricks to home maintenance that may surprise you, including annual drain cleaning professionally done by a licensed plumber to protect your investment in your plumbing system and catch problems before they cause any damage to your pipes.

Sometimes when the water is slow to drain in your bathroom or kitchen sink, you can successfully get the clog to break up with plunging or pouring an amino eating acid down the drain such as Draino. Over time, these methods can become less and less effective because the clog they are attacking is growing and is less responsive to these methods.

Annual drain cleaning is a good way to have a professional plumber go through all of your home drains and pipes to ensure that any hidden clogs that are beginning to form or build up are pushed out of your home plumbing system completely. Sometimes the clog in your drains that is backing up your sinks isn't even caused by a biodegradable clog that will respond to a chemical attack. Occasionally children are known to flush objects down the drain like stuffed toys or toy soldiers or even too much toilet paper, and those objects can become the center of a clog that continues to grow and create a blockage that goes right back to your sinks.

The benefits to annual drain cleaning don't stop at just getting rid of clogs and opening up your drains though. If you have a professional plumber snake your drains they can also check for damage that you may have missed because your pipes are not visible for easy inspection by the home owner. A plumber can use a small camera with the electric snake to navigate through your plumbing and detect damage such as cracked or broken pipes.

And as odd as it sounds that your pipes can be damaged when they are under your house, it can happen - usually it is the result of tree roots growing into your plumbing and causing the disruption. And the tree in question can be quite a distance away from your house- tree roots can extend an amazing amount of space to create damage.

By having your drain cleaning down annually you can count on catching problems early and enjoy a plumbing system that is highly maintained and taken care of. And even though the payback for this act of responsibility is slow to show itself, you can count on extending the life of your plumbing and that can really add up in how much you save in the lifetime of owning your home.