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Title: I need a plumber for the house Post by: RecycleMichael on July 23, 2010, 12:42:28 pm Does anyone have any recommendations for a plumber for the house?
I have some simple slow drain issues, but the wife also will jump on any opportunity to remodel anything in the house. I await your guidance. Title: Re: I need a plumber for the house Post by: GG on July 23, 2010, 03:17:11 pm We have used Roto Rooter for years and have great success. It cost us $102 just last month to have a drain opened up.
My wife accidentally called AAA Auger (why I don't know after we have used Roto Rooter for so many years) and they wanted $250 to do the same job. Thank goodness she called me after she thought that was a little high. Title: Re: I need a plumber for the house Post by: nathanm on July 23, 2010, 03:43:41 pm Yes, surprisingly Roto Rooter is pretty good. I've only used them for minor issues, though.
Title: Re: I need a plumber for the house Post by: patric on July 23, 2010, 05:44:11 pm Does anyone have any recommendations for a plumber for the house? I have some simple slow drain issues, but the wife also will jump on any opportunity to remodel anything in the house. If you think it might only be grease or clotted detergent, run the hottest water you can down your slow drain. follow with a bit of cool water and draino, repeatedly. Dont pour hot water in the same time with draino because it may react violently and you get a face full of draino. Let it get down a bit before resuming the hot water. If it's solids, you will need an auger (like roro-rooter). Slow drain might also be lack of air coming in the vent pipes on your roof, but that's usually accompanied by a sewer gas smell. Title: Re: I need a plumber for the house Post by: heironymouspasparagus on July 26, 2010, 08:25:34 pm Drano and Liquid Plummer both make a kind of foaming drain liquid that seems to help truly simple issues. Seems to kind of hold in place in the pipe as opposed to just draining through. Look at the ingredients, though and you might freak. Sodium hydroxide (lye) and sodium hypochlorite (bleach). Two chemicals they say never to mix because it makes a gas kind of like mustard gas they used in WWI during chemical warfare.
I second the RotoRooter for easy problems. If you gotta dig up the slab, I have had a couple different ones for different occasions for friends/family and have never been real happy with any. Mullins was the one I have gotten the least irritated with. Won't mention any more - you know how your mother said that if you couldn't say something nice, don't say anything at all? Well, I take that very seriously to heart! (Well,... maybe I did - once.) |