Residential Clogged Drains in Jacksonville, FL

While you may not always be able to prevent a clogged drain, you can reduce the risk of clogged drains deep in pipes, backs up, and overflows. Follow these tips from our team of professionals to keep your drains clear:

• Schedule preventive drain cleaning services.
• Schedule routine sewer line inspections.
• Call a professional if you have more than one slow drain.
• Use a lint catcher on your washing machine hose.
• Use a hair catcher on your bathtub or shower drain.
• Use a kitchen sink strainer.
• Use a bacterial drain cleaner every six months.
• Don’t pour grease or oil down the drain.
• Don’t rinse paint, cement, plaster, grout, or joint compound down the drain.
• Clean the pop-up stopper on your bathroom sink every month.
• If you don’t have a garbage disposal, don’t rinse food particles down your drain.
• Rinse plates off thoroughly before putting them in the dishwasher.
• If you have a garbage disposal, don’t put coffee grounds, eggshells, fruit or vegetable rinds peels, seeds, or bones in it.
• Run cold water the entire time you use your garbage disposal.
• Don’t flush anything other than waste and toilet paper down your toilets.

If you notice early warning signs of a clogged drain, call our team for drain cleaning services before it worsens and causes a backup or overflow. Watch out for these signs of a slow drain:

• Standing water around one or more drains.
• Strange smells are coming from the drain.
• A gurgling, trickling, or sucking sound as water goes down the drain.
• Air bubbles when water goes down the drain.
• Using one appliance causes water to back up into another.
• Bubbling toilet water.
• Water backing up into your sink, toilet, bathtub, or shower.
• Puddles of water on the floor near plumbing appliances.
• Water coming from a cleanout.

Yes, you can often fix a clogged drain yourself. If you don’t know how to clear a clogged drain, use these tips from our professionals:

• Use a plunger on clogged toilet drains. Fit the plunger over the toilet drain and create a seal, then slowly push down on the plunger and pull it back up quickly. Repeat this to create a suction that will pull the clog back up into the toilet bowl so that you can break it apart.
• Use a cable auger to break apart stubborn clogs.
• For clogged bathroom sinks, cover the overflow hole with a rag while plunging to create more pressure.
• Use a wire drain snake if a plunger doesn’t work on a clogged sink. You will first need to remove the pop-up stopper in the sink. Then, feed the wire down the drain by cranking the handle. This will break up the clog to be flushed down the pipe.
• Plungers rarely work on clogged shower drains or bathtub drain clogs. These drains are usually clogged with hair and soap scum, and you must use a wire drain snake. Feed the drain snake through the overflow opening rather than down the drain. This gives you a straight route to the drain trap.
• You may need to access the clean-out fitting for clogged drains deep in a pipe. You can remove the cap with a wrench or pliers and clear the clog. You can also use a larger wire snake. Feed it through the drain until the clog is cleared. Make sure to run water through the pipes while using the snake.
• You should rent a power auger or call a professional for clogged floor drains.

You should contact our professionals for clogged drain service in Jacksonville, FL if you have tried clearing a drain yourself without luck or if you have recurring clogged drains even after using a plunger or chemical drain cleaner. You should call our team if:

• You have more than one clogged drain at a time, a clogged drain, and a clogged toilet.
• Your yard keeps flooding, and you don’t know why.
• You smell sewer odors in your home.
• Dirty water is backing up into drains, sinks, tubs, or showers.