Drain Cleaning

Do you need drain cleaning at your Millcreek home? If you have clogged drains, slow drains or smelly drains, the answer is yes. The professional plumbers at Neighborly Plumbing can help you with drain cleaning. We have the tools and the expertise to get your drains open and flowing freely again.

Slow drains are so irritating. When it’s your bathtub drain that’s slow, you get to look forward to standing in 6 inches of scummy water every morning while you shower. When it’s the bathroom sink, you have toothpaste and soap residue constantly encrusted in the basin. You may wonder what the point of even cleaning the bathroom is, since the next time someone uses it, the slow drain will leave another mess.

With a slow drain in the kitchen, you live in fear every time you run the dishwasher that the water in the sink will rise high enough to spill over. If you have a utility sink for your clothes washer in the basement, you may have had the misfortune to witness this happening. It isn’t pretty. It leaves a mess, and can destroy items that get wet and grow mold.

As much as you hate slow drains, at least they clear eventually. With a clogged drain, you’re looking at a pool of nasty water in your home that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

It could be in the kitchen or bathroom sink, the tub or the toilet. A clogged toilet is the worst — especially if you only have one toilet in your home. Then it’s an emergency! Clogged sinks are no fun either. Have you ever bent over the bathtub drain to brush your teeth because your sink is clogged? It’s inconvenient, to say the least.

You may have tried to fix a clog yourself by pouring a little — or a whole bottle — of Liquid Plumr into your drains. And it may have helped a little at first. But commercially available drain cleaner is no match for a serious clog.

You may have also tried to use a drain snake, also known as an auger. Although we hear it is possible to clear a drain with a manual auger, we have not seen it done. Our plumbers in Millcreek rely on power augers to clear clogs in toilets, bathtub drains, sinks and more.

Another technique we use to resolve clogs in sinks is to take apart the trap under the sink and physically remove the clog. This is helpful because we can see what has caused the clog, and homeowners can take care with that substance going forward so the issue doesn’t recur.