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Emergency Rancho Santa Margarita
No one is immune to emergency plumbing issues. You could come home from holiday only to find your basement stuff floating around. Or you can realize to your horror that your backyard is awash in sewage and you are about to throw a party. If the damage is more than 3 square feet, it’s best you react promptly and prevent damage from worsening and getting out of control. Depending on the location and place of the damage, water can harm building materials, give way to the development of mold and fungi render walls and materials prone to falling, collapsing or chipping.
These are some usual emergency scenarios that demand immediate action. Emergency Home Solutions is your trusted, professional and always available emergency service in Orange County, California. We are a 24-hour plumbing service that has your back when you need assistance most.
Drain blockage
If you notice your bathroom sink won’t drain, you should check whether it’s just the sink or not. Testing the bathtub drain will help you establish that. If both drains seem blocked, cleaning coiled hair and built-up debris in the sink pop-up won’t help.
Hair and debris could be the cause of the problem further down the line. Sometimes this can be fixed by simple snaking, but it could also require a camera probe to determine the exact spot of the clog. That information determines next steps.
More often than not, older houses have copper pipes that can be cracked and clogged by tree roots in the yard. Houses of a more recent date that have PVC pipes are susceptible to developing bends in piping. Bends allow for grease and debris to accumulate and this cannot be fixed by snaking either.
In a number of situations when flushing the clog isn’t viable, replacing the damaged length of piping is the usual solution.
Frozen piping
If you are home from a skiing holiday and your faucets are dry, you are most probably facing frozen pipes. Pipes that lie too close to uninsulated areas are prone to freezing in low temperatures, resulting in cracks and cold water overflow. This can severely damage the foundation, floors, walls and furniture. What you should immediately do is turn off the water valve to prevent things going from bad to worse.
The first thing an expert emergency plumber will do is defrost the pipes. After that it will be possible to assess the damage and decide on how to proceed. To stop the problem from recurring in the future, there a few things that could be done – pipe insulation, pipe rerouting and wrapping the pipe with heat-conducting wire.
Floods
Weeping tile is a corrugated pipe that runs around the foundations of a house or building for the purpose of draining water away. It often discharges collected water into the sewer. When it’s raining hard or there’s a blockage, water will flow back and up into your home through the lowest source like a floor drain. Sewage water can also come back, so this problem needs to be remedied right away.
What is usually done is the drain is snaked to remove the build-up, the area is cleaned and dried thoroughly and then it’s decided how to stop the problem from happening in the future.
No one ever thinks a plumbing emergency will happen to them. Or they like to put off preventing problems and nipping them in the bud until they are past an easy and cheap fix. Emergency Home Solutions is an experienced and professional water damage and plumbing emergency service in Orange County. Our teams are always available to bring their experience, expertise and advanced equipment to your rescue. If you are dealing with a plumbing emergency and you live in Rancho Santa Margarita, Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, Irvine or anywhere else in the Orange County, don’t hesitate to contact us right now.