A Blocked Drain Inside Your Home
If you have any of the following symptoms in your home, it is possible that you have a blocked drain:
- Gurgling noises when you flush a toilet, or when you use the kitchen sink, hand basin, laundry tub, shower and bathtub.
- The water level inside your toilet goes up above usual levels or drops under typical levels when you flush the toilet.
- You notice partial or complete foreign objects inside the toilet bowl.
- Your shower area backs up with water while you’re using it.
- You hear gurgling noises and/or smell odours from the floor waste drain inside your bathroom or toilet when you are running the taps.
- Sluggish water drainage from laundry tubs, showers, and kitchen or bathroom basins.
- Foul smells within your home’s interior indicates incomplete or non-existent sewage exit from interior plumbing.
A Blocked Drain Outside Your Home
When it comes to storm water drains, watch for these symptoms around and outside of your property:
- Water puddle accumulation outside your home when it has not been raining.
- Irregular green patches on lawn surface.
- Cracked concrete with water seepage.
- The drain outside (surcharge gully) your house is overflowing, particularly when you have been using your clothes washing machine.
- Water running out from kerb hole onto the street gutter when it is not raining.
- Overflowing grates, floor waste, pits or gutters.
- Overflowing downpipe or drain pipe.
- Water flowing out of the ground.
- Water flowing out of concrete cracks.
- Movement of building (cracks inside and/or outside walls).
You’ll drastically lessen the amount of work needed by your plumber – and thus your expenses – if you identify the issues early on and have them taken care of so they don’t from a blockage. In that way you dodge a crisis blockage scenario… so don’t just disregard the signs mentioned above.
Call us on 0418 164 690 right now so we may take preventative maintenance actions to ensure your blocked drain signs don’t develop into a much larger, stressful and more expensive emergency blocked drains problem.