Plumbing Services in Coldwater 38618 — Pet & Family Safe

When to call a professional

Not sure if it is time to get help? If any of these sound familiar, it is worth a call.

• Cold water pressure has dropped noticeably over the past year but hot pressure is fine—classic sign of galvanized supply pipe corroding from the inside, building scale that chokes flow until a fitting finally bursts behind drywall
• You hear gurgling from the bathroom sink when you flush the toilet, or the washing machine drain causes the shower to burp air—means your main vent stack is blocked or your drainfield is saturated and can't accept more water
• Rust-colored stains appear in toilet bowls and sink basins even after scrubbing, and your well water tastes metallic—iron and manganese are leaching from your well casing or you have galvanized pipe shedding rust; either way the water quality is declining and supply lines are corroding faster
• The water heater makes rumbling, popping noises during the heating cycle—sediment has built up on the tank floor (common in Coldwater's mineral-heavy well water), insulating the element and forcing it to overheat until the tank eventually leaks at the seams
• Your sump pump runs constantly during dry weather, or doesn't run at all during a heavy rainstorm—float switch is stuck or the pump has failed, and your crawlspace is one storm away from standing water that rots floor joists and grows mould
• Dark water backs up into the basement floor drain or lowest toilet when you run the washing machine—main sewer line is blocked (usually tree roots in Coldwater's clay pipe) and the blockage is forcing wastewater back into the house instead of out to the septic or municipal line
• You smell rotten eggs (sulfur) near drains or faucets—hydrogen sulfide gas is building up in your well or septic system, which means bacteria are consuming organic material in an oxygen-starved environment; septic drainfields in Coldwater's heavy clay often go anaerobic when they're overloaded or failing
• Wet spots appear in your yard above the septic drainfield, especially during dry spells when irrigation is off—drainfield laterals are saturated and wastewater is surfacing because the clay soil can't percolate any more; you're months away from a full system backup into the house