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Dunbar Plumbing was contacted in regards to clearing a floor drain that was backing up onto the floor whenever the washing machine was ran in the home. The job was located on Highland Avenue on Fort Mitchell Kentucky. Highland Avenue is a well known, well travelled street that the Fort Mitchell Fire Department is located at. Fort Mitchell Kentucky is also well known for Beechwood Independent Schools when it comes to their educational programs and sports associations. This in turn greatly increases the property values in the Fort Mitchell area.
 
Northern Kentucky Plumbers such as Dunbar Plumbing was called through a lookup on the internet for someone to remove the obstruction and clear the drain. Dunbar Plumbing provides drain cleaning for residential homes with our top of the line drain cleaning equipment made by Spartan Tools.
 
When we arrived to clear the drain, the property owner showed us the situation and the floor drain that was backing up. There was visible toilet paper on the floor around this floor drain. A newer PVC drain system was installed in an adjacent room that we were led to clear the drain. The opening of the floor drain was too small for our cable and would not allow us access to the clear the drain properly.
 
As always, we ask the customer upon arrival to run water into the drainage system to give us indication or a sight gauge to see how far the drain clog is away by seeing how fast the water backs up. If the water takes awhile to back up, there is good chance that the clog is further away. When the water was ran the floor drain closest to the exterior back wall started to make bubbling noises that would lead to the presence of a clog outside in the drain piping, not inside the home. Visual inspection of that floor drain showed where raw fecal matter had been slowly 'burping' back up onto the floor for a considerable amount of time.
 
We installed our drain cable into the drain at the exact opposite side of the house, ensuring that for the cost of services that the entire drain piping system underground would be extensively cleaned, given the cable is travelling through the pipes, scouring the walls inside. Around 32 feet into the drain we approached an area about four feet long that the machine turned with resistance and some struggle, like it was chopping through buildup. This is where a good drain cleaning operator will allow the machine to sit and turn in a stationary position and slowly clean the affected area where buildup has occured. Most likely this is a belly in the pipe or a misaligned pipe that is creating an abrupt low spot in the piping, allowing for buildup that led to the problems with the drains operating efficiently without backing up onto the floor.
 
Even before we started operating our drain equipment, the customer was instructed to turn on all fixtures so that water was running into the drain system. This in combination with the cable inside the piping instantly opened the drain, stopping the sounds that were emitting from the floor drain that was closest to the outside drain line. Constant flushing of the toilet along with the washing machine being filled up for operation and then sent to rinse, dumping the large amounts of water into the drainage system did not back up onto the floor.
 
Our efforts for this customer proved fruitful and we believe that we gained a new customer in this situation. Customer told us they owned a bar/restaurant close by and that from time to time they might need plumbing services on occaision.
 
Customer was very pleased with the results and we hope that a good working relationship becomes of our meeting. As far as the plumbing system we worked on?
 
The drain system is reaching almost 90 years old, truly well beyond the life expectancy of the product when first installed. Many situations, deterioration and most likely settlement of the ground are to blame for clogging issues. Given that the piping back in that age was not water tight, a new drain system in the future is the property owner's best interest.
 
Call Northern Kentucky Plumbers - Dunbar Plumbing at 859-359-4833 for Drain Cleaning or other Plumbing needs in your home.
 

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