Plumbing Survival Tips

12/14/2011

Tags: emergencies | tips | water damage

With extra guests in the home and big family meals, December is a busy month for most home plumbing systems. Last year, ABC’s “Good Morning America” interviewed an expert who provided these plumbing tips:

For the kitchen:

• Don’t pour cooking oils and fat down the drain.
• Don’t put stringy or fibrous material such as potato peels, poultry skin and celery in the garbage disposal.
• Turn on the garbage disposal before putting waste into it, and always run cold water through it while in use.

For more garbage disposal dos and don’ts, please see the Indiana Association of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling-Contractors website.

For the bathroom:

• Allow 10 minutes between showers to sufficiently clear drains.
• Never flush down the toilet cotton balls, hair or facial scrubs, which can’t dissolve.
• Try to keep children from flushing Buzz Lightyear®, or other inappropriate objects, down the toilet.

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