What You Need to Know About Your Plumbing Service After the Holidays | Tomball, TX

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The holidays are a great time for getting together with your loved ones. You spend time with your friends and family and have great big meals and gatherings. They can be a lot of fun. But they can also mean a whole lot of trouble for your plumbing and plumbing service. At least, if you're not careful. That's why knowing about these common plumbing service needs after the holidays might just help you to keep things in better shape for your Tomball, TXhome.

Clogged Sinks

No matter how often you tell your relatives not to scrape their plates off into the sink they always seem to do it anyway, right? And then you end up with a bunch of gunk in your garbage disposal and a need for plumbing service. This is one of the most common things that can happen when you have a lot of people over. After all, when everyone is trying to get rid of their plates and silverware at the same time so they can get back to the family gathering it can be a bit of a mess. That's where all that food can get put down your disposal.

The unfortunate thing is that much of that food isn't meant to go in your disposal at all, let alone to go in such large quantities. You could overload the disposal and then if no one is running it in between that causes even more problems. By the time you're done with that holiday you could end up with a whole lot of plumbing service needs. But the good news is it's a relatively easy fix for a professional to come out to your home and take care of those clogged sinks.

Cold Water

With all those people in your home and some of them staying over you could very easily run out of hot water. The problem is there are too many people trying to take a shower in the morning. You might be trying to do too many dishes to get everything cleaned up from the day before and in the long run your water heater just isn't able to keep up. After all, if you have a traditional water heater it's only able to heat so much water at a time. From there, you have to wait for it to get all the water ready again.

Now, if you have a tankless water heater, you'll actually be able to keep everyone going for a whole lot longer. All you need to do is make sure that you're only using one source of hot water at a time. If you do, you'll be able to cut the problems that you're experiencing. You may not need professional plumbing service for this one unless you run out of hot water entirely and before you should. In that case it could be a problem with the water heater where it's not working at all or the pilot light went out.

Clogged Toilets

This is one no one likes to think about but unfortunately, it's very possible when you have all of those people in your home. It's definitely not something you want to even think about but … you have to. After all, with all of those people in the house something is bound to go wrong, right? You end up with all kinds of problems and then you have to figure out what to do about it. And so many things could go wrong with adults and children milling about unaccompanied for so long.

With small children you could end up with them flushing items that aren't supposed to go into the toilet, which can cause it to clog. Others might be flushing too much toilet paper or not flushing the toilet. All of these things can cause serious problems immediately or down the line. Either way, you'll end up needing plumbing service to deal with it and that's going to be a hassle for you. There's no real way for you to solve this problem before it starts. After all, you assume that everyone knows how to flush the toilet and that you wouldn't have to help them along … but that's not always the case.

What You Need to Do

The best thing that you can do is keep an eye on your house. You want to make sure that you tell people not to put food in your garbage disposal. You may want to tell them to leave their plates at the table and you will take care of them or supervise everyone scrapping plates into the trash before putting them in the sink. This will help keep all that food from overwhelming your garbage disposal. At the very least make sure you're running the disposal frequently as people are scrapping food to clear out the system without overloading it.

You should also keep an eye on bathrooms around the house just to be sure that toilets are flushed properly and that nothing is being left in there that shouldn't be. If your family uses the moist towels but knows not to flush them that doesn't mean your guests do too. The best thing to do is put those away somewhere that no one is going to get into them. You don't want them to flush anything that isn't supposed to go into the drain.

After the holidays or a family gathering you may be looking for plumbing service to take care of some of the mess that's left behind. Our plumbing service is exactly what you're looking for. Just call bluefrog Plumbing + Drain of Northwest Houston to take care of the problem for you. If you need any kind of plumbing servicein Tomball, TX you can just give us a call to take care of it. We can come out to your house at any time and make sure that your plumbing system is working the way it should. Your Tomball, TX home is in good hands.