When plumbing problems happen in your home your first response may be to panic. After all, most homeowners know very little about dealing with plumbing issues. However, in most cases where the plumbing has failed to the point of water leakage your first reaction should be to turn of the water at the source. Even if you learn very little else about the plumbing in your home you should at least know how to disable the flow of running water. Most homes will have a valve located somewhere close to the house which closes the water main. In other cases you may be required to turn off the water at the municipal water connection.
In many cases you may know where your plumbing Farmington, CT problem is located simply by where the water is running into the house. However, some leaks or busted pipes may be hidden away behind walls or buried in the concrete foundation or in the basement or cellar walls. Locating these problems can be a lot tougher without the use of special tools. Some of these leaks can be traced with leak detection tools like the sonic based detector that uses variances in high frequency sounds to discover a leak. If the leak is external to the home it may be possible to use ground based radar techniques to locate water pockets that indicate where the leak is at. Of course, the types of tools they employ are up to the contractors and many have enough experience to handle your leak detection without high-tech gadgets.
Perhaps the toughest challenge for many plumbers is a leaking sewer line. At one time the only way to handle these types of leaks was to dig up the ground and remove the drain plumbing Farmington, CT at the break. Thanks to improvements in plumbing repairs many sewage leaks can be easily fixed with a system known as “Trenchless” sewer repair. This drain plumbing repair method uses an inserted sleeve in the sewer line that bypasses the break allowing the sewage to flow through the insert, sort of like a pipe in a pipe. To see if these repairs or others can solve your plumbing problems you might want to contact a professional contractor such as Instant Response Plumbing & Heating.
