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CONCORD — Larry Williams: With our first major storm of the year past, now it’s time to look forward to more rain to come. With that you have storm drains that are stopped up or will get stopped up from debris. There are two ways to clean those storm drains. One is with a cable. One is with hydro, which is high pressure water. With the cable, you run your cable inside the drain. But the problem is they’re not piped the same way as other drains. They don’t have a long sweep 90; they may have a short 90 or a short T. And that cabling may not clear your drain. There’s no guarantee that cabling will.

Then you have to go to the hydro hydro. Hydro’s a slender cable with high pressure water, 2000 PSI, which you go in and blow the debris and the dirt backwards towards the entry point. And that way you can clear your drain from the backyard to the front. And you won’t have water flooding your backyard, your atrium, or any area around your garage or around your house.

Please clean those storm drains. Thank you.

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CONCORD — Ryan Cummings: If your house is on a slab and you have damaged or broken sewer lines under it, there’s other ways of repairing versus jackhammering your house up. We can go in and descale the line and epoxy the inside of the line to make a smooth surface, and seal the line and increase the lifespan of the existing sewer line under your slab. Also, if the pipe is severely damaged, we can insert a liner. These are just different options versus tearing up your home.

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CONCORD — Larry Williams: Today, I want to talk to you about your drainpipes. Cast iron pipes, as they get older, they will flake on the inside; they will get buildup on the inside. To get rid of that buildup, you have to have your pipes descaled reason being is, as your pipe get bumpier, or that flaking happens, the water will not flow properly. Tissue will not flow properly. It has a tendency to snag and cause a stoppage in your drainpipe.

To alleviate this problem, what you need to do is have your drain pipes descaled. Once the technician comes out and run a camera inside your drain and says you have buildup inside your drainpipes, then you need to have it descaled. He will give you that recommendation. And what it does is, we run chain mail – depends on the pipe chain mail, for cast iron and clay pipes are PVC, but we run a special chain inside of each of those. It will clean the inside of your pipe, and your pipe will flow properly like it was brand new again when you first had it installed in the ground.

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CONCORD — Host, Sarah Rutan: Before purchasing a new home, there’s an important inspection you’ll want to have performed. To learn more, we’re in Concord with Lindsay Guay of Absolute Plumbing and Drain, speaking on behalf of Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Rod Tehrani.

Lindsay Guay: If you’re thinking of purchasing a new home, we highly recommend having a sewer lateral inspection performed. A sewer lateral inspection can help you prevent problems in your line such as tree roots, breakages, cracks, foreign substances or objects in the line, and offsets. That all can be very expensive to repair or replace down the line.

Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local, top rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.info.

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CONCORD — Larry Williams: Hello. My name is Larry Williams. I’m the senior tech with Absolute Plumbing and Drain. I want to talk to you about one of the major problems in stoppages in residential and commercial is grease. Grease comes from cooking; grease comes from bathing. We all put out a little bit of oil when we take a bath, but when you’re cooking, please do not pour grease down your drain. When you get through cooking, take that pot, take a paper towel and wipe out that pot before you put it in the dishwasher and wash it – reason being is, grease is heavier than water.

Grease will settle on the bottom of your drainpipe, and grease will eventually cause a stoppage. If you have a pipe that has a stoppage in it and it’s been sitting for a few days, you can get a congested pipe. And what that means is, the snake will go right through it and come back out. The only way to clear congested pipe is with a hydro flushing. We run our hydro line inside of your drainpipe with a pressure up to 2000 PSI; it will blow all the debris out of your pipe, down the drain, and your pipe will be clear and your drains will be functioning the way they’re supposed to be according to the specification when you had your house built.

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CONCORD — Host, Sarah Rutan: One often-overlooked aspect of water heater maintenance is cleaning the air intake screen. Today we’re in Concord with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Rod Tehrani of Absolute Plumbing and Drain to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Hamid Rod Tehrani: I have one simple tip to keep your water heater in good standing, working position. Which by cleaning it, clean both sides of your water heater. You can use your vacuum and get the lint off of the screen. That cause the—the pilot goes off when the screen has lots of lint, so the doesn’t get in there. There’s residue buildup on your pilot, and the water heater is going to stop working all of a sudden. It can be two, three-years-old water heater, and then you have that issue. Just keep it clean and use your vacuum, and you can flush it yourself once a year as well, or if you need the help, give us a call. We can help you to flush it.

Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local, top rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.info.

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CONCORD — Host, Sarah Rutan: To keep your home’s water shut-off valves functioning properly, you’ll need to follow a simple maintenance step. To learn more, we’re in Concord with Larry Williams of Absolute Plumbing and Drain, speaking on behalf of Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Rod Tehrani.

Larry Williams: You’ve got shut-off valves at your washing machine box, or you could have a faucet inside the garage. One good tip is to turn these valves off and on once a year. Imagine if you’re getting a new washing machine, the technician come in there and he goes to turn off the valve so he can put the new washing machine in place, and he can’t do it. He will tell you; I can’t turn this off. You say, well, I can go to the front of the house and turn it off at the main shut-off valve. He tells you that won’t work. It will void the warranty if it doesn’t work at the box. So, please exercise those valves once a year.

Also, behind your toilet, underneath your sink, you got a regular shut-off valve. You should exercise those once a year. Imagine in the middle of the night, one of those hose bursts, you go to turn it off, and you can’t. You’d have to turn off the water to the whole house. But if you just exercise that valve once a year, you have no problem. You can just turn it off right there underneath the sink, and you can go back the next morning and call for help.

But with that laundry box, if you don’t exercise that valve when you’ve got to replace it, the technician will come out, he have to cut open your walls, re-solder your pipes, you have to get a sheetrock person to come in and repair the sheetrock, and a painter to come back and repair the wall. But just by exercising that valve once a year you would alleviate that problem.

Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local, top rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.info.

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CONCORD — Host, Sarah Rutan: When it comes to your home’s plumbing system, even something as minor as washing machine hoses can cause major damage if ignored. To learn more, we’re in Concord with Larry Williams of Absolute Plumbing and Drain, speaking on behalf of Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Rod Tehrani.

Larry Williams: Okay, the question of the day. How old are your washing machine hoses? Most people don’t think about the washing machine hoses, but they have rubber hoses behind the washing machine. These washing machine hoses are only good for five years. But if you have the braided hose, they’re good for fifteen years. Imagine you get the rubber hose, you get a boot inside that hose, you go out to dinner, that hose bursts, your house is putting out 65 PSI of pressure at any given time. When that hose bursts, you’re going to get 65 PSI of pressure going into your garage. You’re at dinner, when you come back, you can go swimming inside your garage by the time you get back. If you have the braided hose good for fifteen years, you wouldn’t have that problem.

Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local, top rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.info.