What Not to Put Down a Kitchen Drain or a Toilet
What wipes, grease, coffee grounds and cat litter each do inside the pipe.
Drain and sewer advice for Whatcom County homes
Written for the houses that are actually here, on the pipe that is actually under them.
Why bother
Why any of this is worth reading
Most drain advice online is written for a house that could be anywhere. It does not know what a bigleaf maple does to a clay joint over forty years, or that a large share of the housing here went up in exactly the window when Orangeburg fibre conduit was going into the ground.
Everything below comes off jobs in this county. Where a number would go stale, we left it out rather than made one up.
Posts
Orangeburg Pipe in Whatcom County Homes: How to Tell and What to Do
Fibre conduit went into the ground here for nearly thirty years. How to tell.
Tree Roots in a Sewer Line: What Works and What Only Buys Time
Cutting them out works. Closing the joint they came through is the fix.
Signs Your Main Sewer Line Is Clogged, Not Just One Drain
One slow sink is a fixture. Two fixtures reacting to each other is not.
Hydro Jetting or Snaking: Which One Does Your Line Actually Need
One clears a blockage. The other restores the diameter. Different repairs.
What Drain Cleaning Costs in Whatcom County, and What Changes the Price
What actually moves the number, without a made up figure attached to it.
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