Your kitchen is one of the most important spots in your home: the place where you prepare meals and discuss the events of the day with other family members. Clogs and leaks in the kitchen plumbing – from the sink to the water line to your refrigerator – can bring your whole household screeching to a halt and make basic tasks like cooking dinner difficult at best and impossible at worst.
Because clogs and leaks are so common, you may be tempted to perform repairs yourself, possibly with the purchase of store-bought solutions such as chemical cleaners. In all but the easiest cases, you should always contact a professional plumber. If the leak can’t be fixed with a swift turn of the wrench or the clog by judicious use of a plunger, you’ll ultimately save yourself a lot of time and headache by bringing in a trained plumber. Why? There are a number of good reasons.
Experience
The average person doesn’t have to deal with leaks and clogs nearly as often as plumbers do, which means they lack the experience to deal with the issue as effectively. Plumbing requires formal licensing and training, which allows a plumber to get to the bottom of the issue quickly and correct it accurately. That can save a lot of time, as well as the need to deal with the same issue over and over again. It also spares you having to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem and figure out a solution.
Equipment
Store-bought solutions to a given plumbing problem rarely work the way they should because they’re not designed to treat a specific problem. Instead, they adopt a one-size-fits-all solution that partially works for a number of issues instead of specifically addressing yours. For example, a store-bought chemical cleaning gel may open up part of a kitchen clog, but often leaves chunks of it in place, meaning that the clog may simply re-form a short time later. That forces you to apply the same half-measure over and over again in an effort to fix what should be a very simple issue.
Professional plumbers on the other hand, have access to equipment like hydro jetting and motorized snakes with rotating heads. Such equipment is usually far too expensive for the average homeowner, who may only use it a handful of times at the most. It’s standard issue for professional plumbers, however, and because we have the training and licensing to use it, we can bring it to bear on the problem. That way, it’s fixed properly, without having to revisit it.
Insurance
If something goes wrong while you’re fixing your kitchen plumbing, you’re on the hook for any further repairs that may be needed. In the worst cases, you may suffer injury yourself. A professional plumber is licensed and bonded, however, and most guarantee the work before it starts to ensure that you’re covered no matter what might happen.
For kitchen plumbing leak and clog repair here in the West Chester, PA area, call on the pros at Wm. Henderson Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Inc. today!