Household Plumbing Tips

These helpful hints should help keep the plumbing in your bathroom running efficiently.

• Repair leaky faucets to avoid further damage to the fixtures and faucets.
• Tubs and showers should be fitted with strainers that catch hair and soap chips. Clean the strainers regularly.
• To remove unsightly mineral deposits on your shower head, put one cup of vinegar in a plastic bag and place it over the shower head. Hold it in place with a twist tie and let stand overnight. In the morning, remove the bag and wipe off the mineral deposits with a damp cloth.
• Do not use your toilet as a wastebasket. NEVER flush facial tissue, sanitary products or diapers as they do not dissolve and can clog the lines. Keep a trash container in each bathroom.

These helpful hints should help keep the plumbing in your kitchen running efficiently.

• NEVER put hard-to-grind, stringy or fibrous waste (poultry skins, carrots, celery or banana peels) into the garbage disposer.
• Run cold water down the drain for 15 seconds before and after using the garbage disposer to flush waste through the line.
• NEVER pour liquid grease down the drain. Wipe congealed grease from pots and pans with a paper towel and dispose of in the trash.

• Multiple backups in plumbing over a period of time.
• Slow draining of sinks, shower drains, and toilets.
• Bubbling or gurgling coming from drains and toilets when no water is running.
• When your toilet backs up into another drain such as the tub drain.
• If you have tree roots near your sewer line, they can crush or break lines and interfere with the flow of solids and water.
• If you flush down your toilet anything besides toilet paper and human waste you are risking plugged sewer lines.