Sewer Cleaning Made Easy

Your home’s sewage system travels from your toilet and connects with the city sewage system, which is often where your property line ends and the city property line begins. This is important to know because the city holds you responsible for maintaining your own sewage lines, while they maintain the city sewage lines.
Your sewage lines carry everything from feces, hair and toilet paper to other things that shouldn’t go down your sewage drains like garbage, grease and toys. Your sewage line is intended to carry certain items with no problems, but when items go down the drain that shouldn’t they can create blockage and that can led to a sewage backup in your home.

Since it can be messy, smelly and expensive to clean up after the sewage lines back up into your home’s toilets, sinks and tubs, it is important to be as preventative as possible in caring for your sewage system.

You can start by making sure anything that goes down the toilet, is intended to go down the toilet. Most people know that pouring hot cooking grease down the kitchen sink drains will led to clogs when the grease colligates somewhere in the pipes so they don’t do it. What some people do instead however is pour the cooking grease down the toilet not realizing that this is just as likely to cause a buildup over time and led to a blockage in the sewage drain.

Educate your household members on what can not be flushed such as tampons, q-tips and toys. If you have young curious children keep your toilet locked with a child proof toilet guard until they are old enough to know not to play with the toilet.
Finally you should have your sewage system cleaned and snaked by a professional sewer cleaning company to make sure your sewage system is in good order every year. A yearly sewer cleaning will find things like clogs or cracked pipes before they become a problem since you likely won’t become aware of any problems until they are major concerns otherwise.

If you are experiencing problems with your sewage system such as backing up, slow drainage or no drainage at all a professional sewer cleaning company can detect if the problem is in your line or the city’s end of the sewage line. If the problem is on the city side of the line, regardless of where the issue originated, the city is financially obliged to make the needed repairs and not you.

Don’t attempt to snake or clean out your own sewage system since sewage cleaning should be left to the professionals to tackle for the best results. If you don’t know what you are doing you might make a problem worse or miss a cracked pipe because you didn’t know what to look for. That means any potential minor problems will be left undetected until they become major problems down the road.