Category: Drain Clearing

Charlotte Plumber Advice: Help! Toilet Backed Up?

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Charlotte Plumbers Help When Toilets Back Up Are the toilets on your lower level backing up? Do you suddenly have sewage coming out of your toilets? No, your house is not revolting against you, and no, the problem is not that someone flushed something awful down the toilet. In most cases, the problem behind a

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Charlotte Drain Cleaning Tips

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Plumbing Emergency Charlotte Advice: Clogged Drains Of course, it’s a fact of life that sometimes a drain will just get clogged up. Whether it’s draining slowly or completely stopped, you need to fix it. Here are some simple tips to unclog drains safely and effectively. Invest in a few supplies from the get-go, a plunger,

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How to Unclog a Drain

Clogged Drain? Looking for Plumbing in Charlotte NC? Even though indoor plumbing is a huge societal advancement in history, it’s not a perfect system. We are very hard on our drains and pipes – really everything we do that isn’t simply pouring liquid down them has the potential to clog them up and cause damage

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How to Fix a Broken Drain Trap

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Sometimes the problem is simply that the slip nuts holding the drain trap assembly to the drain and the drainpipe have loosened. Tightening them may solve the problem. But if the metal has corroded through, if the slip-nut threads are damaged, or if other damage has occurred, the only solution is replacement. Drain trap assemblies

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Charlotte Plumber Advice: Drain Trap Q&A

What is a drain trap? The purpose of a drain trap is to constantly maintain water in the pipe to keep the sewer gas smells from evading the drain. Where are drain traps located? There is a trap located at every drain because the drains are connected to drainage systems, which can lead to an

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