Shower drains can start to smell for several common reasons. Mold or mildew might be growing beneath your drain cover. Your p-trap could be malfunctioning, allowing sewer gas to rise up through your pipes. Or there could simply be hair or grime stuck in your shower drain strainer. Luckily, most of the reasons your … [Read more...]

The most effective way to unclog a bathtub drain is to use a cup plunger to force the blockage out. Remove your tub’s strainer and stopper, fill the tub with a few inches of water, and plunge forcefully and continuously until the blockage comes up out of the drain. There are several effective means of unclogging … [Read more...]

You’re a busy person. You've got kids, a job, responsibilities, and a thousand other things to juggle. Because of this, you absolutely need your dishwasher to work at all times. You barely have time to load the thing. You definitely don’t have time to hand wash those same dishes if it stops working!  If your … [Read more...]

There are few things as unpleasant as a dishwasher that doesn’t work properly. Seriously, what’s worse? Stepping on legos? Old, microwaved cups of coffee? Black licorice? Sure, ok--but that’s about it. A clogged dishwasher is not a happy dishwasher. When food, paper, and other scraps build up, they create clogs and … [Read more...]

The most important thing to remember about your garbage disposal is that it isn’t a garbage can. While your disposal is incredibly useful for disposing of food waste, it can’t dispose of everything. No matter how effective or powerful your garbage disposal, there are certain things you should never throw into it. If … [Read more...]

Earlier this month, we explained how everyone pours bacon grease down their drains, even though they really, really shouldn’t. That blog made us wonder why, exactly, that keeps happening. The conclusion we came to is that we all tend to think of bacon grease as waste. We usually dispose of liquid waste in a drain, so … [Read more...]

In their recent article “Everyone Pours Bacon Fat Down the Drain; Everyone Lies About It,” the Wall Street Journal reveals a terrible truth plumbers are already all-too-familiar with. People all over the world are still pouring their bacon grease down their drains all the time. This is a significant problem.   If … [Read more...]

Every home has it: that one sink that just clogs all the time. You plunge it once every couple of months or even weeks, but it doesn’t matter. It seems like you get the water flowing one day, and the very next the drain plugs up again. It’s the “problem” drain. Chances are, you’ve stopped trying to deal with the … [Read more...]

If you’ve never heard of Murphy’s law before, it states that, “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. We’ve made a slight plumbing-related addendum to Murphy's law, which we’re calling 'Murphy and Mike Diamond’s law'. Murphy and Mike Diamond's law states: “Anything that can go wrong with your home plumbing, will … [Read more...]

We’d understand if you were skeptical of a plumber’s drain cleaning service. Can we really do something all that different from what you can do? Are we just selling you a bill of goods? Well, to help clear up your possible suspicions, we’re going to walk you through exactly how our plumbers get into and clean out your … [Read more...]