Drainage care prevents clogging

When cleaning clogged drains, you have a variety of options - chemical cleaners, organic solutions, pipe snakes, plungers, and so on. But why bother when it's cheaper and easier to prevent congestion first?

Taking care of the drain mainly requires you to be careful. Add in the active cleaning several times a year, and your chances of serious congestion will become very low.

What is the worst possible scenario?

When you don't take good care of your sewer, the first consequence is often bad smell. This is more common in kitchen drains, where organic food particles decay and blow toxic air into the kitchen. But even bathrooms and floor drains can be sources of odor.

After odor, the next problem is usually the formation of clogging. This happens gradually, causing the drain pipe to work slowly at first, and then the drain system is completely closed.

Finally, if the drainage system is really neglected, permanent damage may occur. No drainage pipe can be permanently used, but basic care can prolong the service life of drainage pipes for decades, while neglect can have the opposite effect.

Look what you're doing

The most important aspect of preventive drain maintenance is to be careful with the sewer. In the bathtub and shower, the biggest problem is usually hair. But this can easily be avoided by using a wire mesh filter on the drain pipe. It takes only a few seconds to clean it after each shower.

In the kitchen, you should be careful not to pour anything other than water into the sink drain. Many, but not all, organic foods can enter the waste disposal system. The most common culprits of clogging in sewers and garbage disposal are grease and coffee grounds - they are always put in garbage cans.

Floor drains can be troublesome because sundries can easily fall into them inadvertently. If you have floor drains in the basement, laundry or other places, make sure they have proper drainage covers. If it can be avoided, do not form the habit of cleaning or washing sundries into the sewer.

A little thin layer chromatography

It is worthwhile to gently clean the inside of the drain pipe about twice a year to prevent the accumulation of biofilms, hairballs and other viscous substances that cause clogging. But it's easy - and cheap.

White vinegar is weakly acidic, but it is sufficient to dissolve most of the particles formed in the drainage pipe. Just pour about two cups of vinegar into the sewer, wait for at least ten minutes, and then rinse the sewer with very hot water.

This, coupled with efforts to allow the flushing of sewers from the beginning, can make the blockage of domestic sewers a thing of the past.