A clogged drain or a toilet can seem like a nightmare. Imagine walking into your restroom and seeing a puddle under your toilet or the toilet bowl overflowing. This is a situation we may encounter sometimes. So, before you start worrying about the situation, call a professional plumbing service and do the following while you wait for them to arrive:
1. Cut The Water Supply To Your Toilet
You can locate the mounted valve behind your toilet. Turn the valve to close -off the water flow. If you can’t locate the valve, lift the top of the toilet tank and locate the floating ball. You can lift the ball above the water level to stop the water flow
2. Shut Off The Water Supply To Your Home
You can locate the main valve next to your water heater. From here, you can temporarily turn off the water supply to your home.
3. Call A Professional Plumber
After you have done the first two steps, take a moment to relax and catch your breath. You can call Wasden Plumbing, who responds to any plumbing-related issue 24/7. Our licensed and certified professional plumbers arrive in time to listen and answer your queries and recommend the best course of action after surveying the issue and situation. We handle clogged drain repairs and clogged toilet repairs in Rockwall, TX.
4. Prepare The Area For The Plumbers to Work
While you are waiting for the plumbers to arrive, you can prepare the area. We recommend putting on rubber gloves and mopping the wet area around the toilet bowl to remove the excess water. Also, by using a bucket, remove a few inches of water from the toilet bowl. This will prevent the water from sloshing out of the toilet bowl as the plumber attempts to unclog your toilet.
5. Request an Inspection
After the plumber is done with unclogging the toilet, you can ask them to check other toilets and plumbing in your home for any potential areas that may require work in the future. You can detect future emergencies early and schedule repairs with the plumber on a future date.
6. Clean The Toilet
Now that the plumber has left, wear your rubber gloves and clean any area that had been touched by toilet water or where drain water was stagnant. This water contains contaminants that may require you to use bleach and hot water to disinfect.
7. Tips For Future Prevention
Based on our experience, toilet overflows are caused by using too much toilet paper, flushing “flushable wipes”, diapers, sanitary products, Q-tips, floss, toys, kitty litter, or household trash down the toilet. Any of these items can cause your drains and pipelines to clog and contribute to toilet overflows.
We know how helpless our customers can feel with clogged drains and toilet emergencies. At Wasden Plumbing, we are here to help and respond to your emergencies round-the-clock. So you don’t have to worry about clogged pipes ever again. You can reach out to us anytime to call for an estimate for installations, clogged drain repairs, sewer line repairs, toilet repairs and other services in Rockwall, Texas
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