Clogged drains happen sooner or later, Powell’s plumbing is a drain cleaning expert. It may just be a clog developing in the P-trap under a sink, or it may be a clog forming in the main sewer line of the house. Most clogged drains have the same causes, and most of them can be prevented. Our team of technicians is here to help you with the utmost professionalism, providing drain unclogging and drain snake plumbing in Wilmington.
Our professional power plumbing snakes for drains are lengths of coiled steel wire that can be joined together. The leading end can accept different attachments to bust through clogs in sewer pipes. They are used when sewer mains are clogged in residences and businesses. A machine rapidly spins the coiled pieces to rotate the clog-busting attachment at the head. They can go deep into sewer mains, and they are even capable of reaching into the buried sewer line outside, helping our Wilmington drain cleaning plumbers. Special attachments can cut tree roots that are migrating into compromised terracotta sewer lines buried outside.
Materials that cause serious drain clogs include cements and plasters that chemically harden even in the presence of water. Rinsing out a container used to mix concrete or Plaster of Paris and sending the residue down the drain can cause a clog. The material still hardens in water. Items not meant to be flushed down the toilet also contribute to serious drain clogs. Debris that backwashes into an underground sewer main during a severe rain storm can also be a culprit behind a serious clog.
Storm debris backing into a sewer line from the sewer main at the street is a rare occurrence. Most routine clogs are caused by fats and fibers, and most serious clogs are caused by tree roots or a collapsed terracotta pipe. The majority of routine clogs can be prevented, simply:
