SPRING CLEANING IN YOUR HOME

Spring Plumbing Tips: Top 5 Tips for Cleaning Your Plumbing This Spring

1. Being Mindful

A highly critical step for ensuring the overall health of your plumbing is by being aware of what’s entering your drains. Particles such as hair, fabric, thick liquids, and other household products can clog and damage the interior of a plumbing system.

In conjunction with this, never flush products such as wet wipes down the stool after usage. These materials do not breakdown easily and can buildup within the plumbing framework.

2. Weekly Inspections and Cleaning

You need to follow a strict protocol of weekly inspection of all the drains and faucets within your area. This means lifting the stoppers, cleaning out particles, running boiling water down the drain, etc. This will push any buildup of particles through the drain and prevent future issues. The biggest killers of a plumbing system are time and accumulation of buildup. Without routine inspection, you could be dealing with months or years worth of collection and damage.

3. Mesh Screens

Mesh screens are a brilliant tool to utilize within the plumbing framework of your home. Mesh screens act as a giant filter for all of the water passing into your plumbing. These screens are perfect for collecting hair and other particles in the shower and sinks of your home

The beauty of these devices is that they’re relatively cheap. You can easily pick up a package of mesh screens for less than $10 and protect your entire home. As a rule of thumb, you need to be changing these screens out every few months to ensure their effectiveness

4. Not a Trash Compactor

One of the biggest errors in judgement that homeowners make is treating their

toilet like a trash compactor. You cannot throw whatever material you wish into the toilet and flush it. Sure, the material may flush down the toilet out of sight; but the issues rests in the piping system

5. Removing Toilet Items

If you find that there are hard objects lodged in your toilet (toys, fabric, etc.) there is a solution to your problem. You can use a household vacuum in order to remove the object.

The vacuum acts as a large suction device that can easily navigate the narrow piping of your toilet. This is a highly effective way to remove those objects your animals or children may have tossed in.

Spring is upon us, which means it’s time to deep clean your Simi Valley home. Give Fix It Fast Plumbing a call at (805) 623-4417 to freshen your home from the inside out!