{"id":2917,"date":"2019-12-16T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:41:46","slug":"drain-cleaning-great-time-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/drain-and-sewer-service\/drain-cleaning-great-time-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Drain Cleaning: It\u2019s Great for This Time of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A topic that many professional plumbing contractors bring up at this time of year is how to prevent pipes from freezing in the winter. Well, for plumbing in Orange County, CA<\/a>, that\u2019s never a problem! But that doesn\u2019t mean there a no<\/em> seasonal difficulties for your plumbing in sunny Southern California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One common plumbing trouble during the festive season is\nwith clogged drains. Your kitchen plumbing probably just went through a rough\nwork-out during Thanksgiving, and now it has more celebrations and visiting\nrelatives and feasts to deal with. This often leads to homeowners calling for\nhelp to clear out clogged drains and jammed garbage disposals when they greet\nthe New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want you to enjoy the holidays in peace, and we recommend\nyou schedule drain cleaning if you haven\u2019t already. Drain cleaning is a good\nidea each year, so why not get into the habit now when your drains need it the\nmost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Drains Collect Too Much Buildup at the End of the Year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The drains all around your home pick up debris and waste\nalong their walls at all times of the year. Bathroom sinks, showers, and tub\ndrains collect soap scum and hair clogs. The kitchen sink is dealing with soap\nscum as well, but also food debris and the dangerous combination of FOG\u2014fats,\noils, and grease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think back to Thanksgiving. How much cooking grease and leftover fats ended up going down the drain? Plenty! The food people associate with feasting is some of the most harmful for drains (not to mention your garbage disposals). There are steps you can take to keep as much FOG out of the drains as possible, but you can\u2019t stop all of it. If you haven\u2019t had drain cleaning done in a few years, you may have extremely heavy organic build-up along the inside of the kitchen drainpipe. This makes it easy for the drain to turn slow or clog up entirely. It also leads to unpleasant odors from the drain and even sewer flies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDrain Cleaners\u201d Are Not a Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No, you can\u2019t buy a bottle of \u201cdrain cleaner\u201d from the store\nand use it to get rid of the debris in your drains. Drain cleaners don\u2019t actually\nclean<\/em>. They use acidic chemicals to eat through clogs, and at best are a\nstopgap method that leaves behind most of the debris in the drainpipe. Clogs\nwill come back soon. Worse, these chemicals are toxic and can cause damage to piping\nmaterials. They also end up in landfills. All around, chemical drain cleaners\nare bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Drain Cleaning Experts Are the Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What can we, your humble local plumbers with three decades\nof experience, do for your drains? Simple\u2014we can thoroughly clean them without\ndamaging the pipes. We use the best tools for this job, such as using video inspection\nequipment to examine the inside of the drainpipes and high-pressure water\nscouring to fully blast away all the build-up in the drains. When we\u2019re done,\nthe drainpipes will be like-new, with little chance of clogging of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call Saddleback Plumbing Heating & Air<\/a>\u201430 Years of Trusted Experience in Orange County!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drain cleaning is a good idea each year, so get into the habit now when your drains need it the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[46,69],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drain-and-sewer-service","tag-drain-cleaning","tag-orange-county"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saddlebackplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}