Kitchen sink
Grease and food scraps can slow a kitchen sink, and a leaking trap under it can soak the cabinet floor even beneath a farmhouse sink. The clog and the leak are separate repairs.
Drain Cleaning in Rockwall
A drain that gurgles, drains slowly or keeps backing up is blocked somewhere along its run. The first job is finding whether the blockage sits at one fixture or further down the line.
The sections below follow the drains of a house from the kitchen sink to the main sewer line.
Which drain is giving trouble
Bath and shower drains
Hair and soap build up in tub and shower drains and slow the water. Clearing the drain restores the flow, and one that slows again points to a blockage further along.
Washer and floor drains
A washer standpipe or a floor drain that backs up has its own blockage, such as lint or debris, and the plumber clears it from the trap or the cleanout.
The main sewer line
If the tub, the sink and the washer all drain badly at once, or water shows up at the lowest drain, the shared main line is the place to look, and the sewer line repair page covers what happens there.
Telling one clog from a deeper problem
A single slow drain points to a clog at that fixture, while several slow drains at once point to the line they share. Gurgling in one drain when another is used is a hint that the shared line is partly blocked.
Keeping drains clear
Grease, wipes and food scraps belong in the trash rather than the sink or toilet, and a catch screen over a shower drain stops hair before it builds up.
Rockwall homeowners with a clog that keeps returning can read the sewer line repair page, those with a dripping trap under the cabinet can read fixture repair, and the homepage holds the full list.
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