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The plumbing system of your home is massive, and the smallest of problems can easily go undetected for months or longer. Something like a pinhole leak or the use of corrosive chemicals may seem really minor now, but give it time to build up and eventually you\u2019ll have a plumbing emergency on your hands. Unfortunately, not many homeowners know how to properly take care of their plumbing pipes\u2014in particular their drains.<\/p>\n
Keep reading to discover just how to do so, and how you can avoid premature drain repair<\/a> in the meantime.<\/p>\n You may have heard this term before, even if you don\u2019t quite know what it means. Hard water is the name given to water with high levels of minerals in it\u2014namely, calcium and magnesium. These minerals are harmless to ingest, but they are not <\/em>harmless when it comes to your drains.<\/p>\n They build up and accumulate, creating limescale that begins to eat away at your drains and drainpipes, until you have an unsurmountable clog or blockage that you can\u2019t easily remove\u2014and so you reach for the second worst enemy of drainpipes everywhere: store-bought chemical liquid drain cleaners.<\/p>\n More on that <\/em>in a moment. First we want to tell you how to spot some of the signs of hard water. Aside from investing in professional water testing and being told you have hard water, you can usually spot it by the presence of:<\/p>\n The problem with the liquid drain cleaners you can get at pretty much hardware store is, first off, that they are corrosive. Sure, they\u2019re marketed as the end-all be all of any clog\u2014but we guarantee that when the clog is gone, the drain cleaning solution stays behind, eating away at the drainpipes.<\/p>\n Not only that, but the use of these chemical drain cleaners doesn\u2019t prevent further clogs (unlike professional drain cleaning methods, like hydro-jetting) so you may find yourself using it every few months, only to eventually discover that the chemical drain cleaner you\u2019ve been relying on to remove <\/em>a clog is actually building up and creating <\/em>a clog. Ironic, right?<\/p>\n Do your drains a favor and when you have a stubborn clog that won\u2019t go away no matter how many times you use a plunger and some elbow grease, call our pros. Professional plumbers have years of training and expertise dealing with just about any plumbing problem under the sun, and our methods will remove the clog and <\/em>prevent it from happening again. Don\u2019t forget to ask us about plumbing maintenance, too!<\/p>\n Unfortunately, not many homeowners know how to properly take care of their plumbing pipes\u2014in particular their drains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[170,99,171,151],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relianceplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Address Hard Water<\/h2>\n
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What about Those Liquid Drain Cleaners?<\/h2>\n
For expert plumbing service, installations, or maintenance <\/strong>contact Reliance Plumbing Sewer & Drainage, Inc.<\/a> Our knowledgeable plumbers serve the North Shore and Northwest Chicago suburbs. Rely on Reliance!<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"