Easy Portland Plumbing Tips

Here are a few Portland Plumbing Tips from your All Pro Plumber to help you with simple plumbing issues around the house.

• Portland Plumbing Tips #1:  If your toilet gets clogged, there is a low level of water in the toilet, and if the plunger is not working, you may fix the problem by dumping warm water from a bucket into your toilet from about waist level. The water should go down, and if the water goes down you may dump another bucket of water in the toilet.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #2:  Frequently inspect the floors around toilets for softness; this can tell you whether or not the floors are damaged. Sit on the toilet and move from side to side, placing one foot on the ground.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #3:  Use baking soda and one cup of vinegar per month to keep the bathtub drain clear and running well. Cover it with a plug or rag, since a chemical reaction should happen in the pipes.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #4:  Having water leaking into the dishwasher, however annoying, is luckily an easy fix. The hose that runs from the kitchen sink to the dishwasher is more than likely not installed properly, and can be corrected quickly.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #5:  Always check for leaks in and around your toilets. Drop a few food coloring drops inside your toilet tank to test for leaks.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #6:  If something is wrong with the disposal in your sink, avoid the temptation to stick your hand in there to fix it. Garbage disposals are not healthy places for hands to be, even if they are not running.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #7:  Clean your dryer’s lint trap. This not only prevents fires, but saves money.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #8:  Don’t run the water when the garbage disposal is used. It is assumed that food will go down more smoothly if the water is running, though in reality that does nothing good.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #9: Place a strainer on top of every drain so that you collect all debris that has the ability to clog the drain. Clean the kitchen sink strainer any time something collects in it.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #10: If sewage backs up into a toilet in your home, there is likely a clog in the line that connects your sewer line to main line.

 

• Portland Plumbing Tips #11: Use a cleaner that is enzyme based cleaners when cleaning clogged pipes.Enzyme based cleaners use “good” bacteria to transform the clog into a liquid, making it weak enough to be flushed out.The best options on the market now are the enzyme cleaners.

 

 

 

 

Portland Plumbing Tips