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Slab Leaks

The Dangers of Water Slab Leaks: Unseen Damage to Your Property

Water slab leaks can silently wreak havoc on your property, causing extensive damage that often goes unnoticed until it’s too late. These hidden leaks occur when water pipes beneath the concrete foundation of a building break or develop cracks, allowing water to seep into unintended areas. In this article, we’ll explore the dangers of water slab leaks and the potential damage they can cause to a person’s home.

The Silent Culprit

Water slab leaks can originate from various sources, including aging pipes, shifting soil, or poor construction practices. The constantly pressurized water supply in these pipes can exacerbate even the tiniest of cracks, leading to significant water escape over time. One of the most challenging aspects of water slab leaks is that they often go unnoticed until major damage has already occurred.

Structural Damage

Water slab leaks can inflict severe damage to the very foundation of your home. As water seeps through the cracks and saturates the soil beneath the slab, it can cause the soil to shift and erode. This shifting can result in foundation settlement, leading to structural instability. Cracks may appear not only in the foundation but also in walls, floors, and ceilings. If left unchecked, these issues can jeopardize the safety and integrity of your entire property.

Mold and Mildew

When water accumulates beneath the slab due to a leak, it creates a damp environment ideal for mold and mildew growth. Mold spores can spread quickly, compromising the indoor air quality and potentially triggering allergies or respiratory problems for inhabitants. Mold remediation can be an expensive and time-consuming process, often requiring professional help to mitigate the damage.

Damage to Flooring and Walls

Water slab leaks can damage flooring materials, such as hardwood, laminate, or carpet. As water gradually infiltrates, it causes these materials to buckle, warp, or discolor. Additionally, it can lead to persistent moisture problems that can ruin interior walls, resulting in peeling paint, bubbling wallpaper, or stains. Repairs for these damages can be costly and may require replacing the affected flooring or wall sections.

Escalating Water Bills

Undetected water slab leaks can lead to a steady increase in water bills. Since the leaks usually go unnoticed, the excess water consumption can accumulate over time, causing a significant financial burden.

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Slab Leak

Roots Create Blockages

Today, we will educate you about root intrusion. Root intrusion is when a person has a crack or leak in their sewer line system, and the trees are able to smell that water being dispersed into the dirt. So trees have to eat just like we do as humans so the roots end up growing towards your sewer line and submerge themselves in that moisture. So when the tree finds that type of leak, the roots grow into the pipe so that they could reach the source of that moisture. Which ends up being the inside of your sewer line. And trees are very attracted to sewer lines because sewer lines pack the perfect menu for a tree, there is water, and there is waste like feces which acts as a fertilizer, and explains why roots can grow so aggressive inside your sewer lines. Once you get roots inside the line, there is one solution, and one solution only. And that is to do what we call a spot repair or changing out that entire sewer line. A spot repair consist of locating where the blockage has entered the pipe and cutting out that bad section of pipe by digging down to the pipe and replacing damaged pipe with new pipe. And a entire sewer line is like it sounds changing out the entire line from home to property line. We also offer camera inspections on mainline sewers and it’s always best to take care of a problem before it graduates to something worse. There should be a few pictures located with this post and what you see is a route that actually grew inside a persons bathroom underneath their toilet, and what is laying next to that hole in the other picture is the root that was removed. We service all of Antelope Valley, California, all of Santa Clarita, California, all of Mojave, California and surrounding areas.

Watch For The Shaby Work

Here is a job we did for a customer located in Palmdale California, the customer had a technician come out from another company, we won’t mention the name to give them any good or bad promotion. Now this company is licensed and are contractors, which blew my mind because how did you complete the process of acquiring a contractor’s license and your logic would let you consider this job you see in the photo complete and water tight. Customers are surprised by these actions but we are not here at Daniel Plumbing And Maintenance. We hear the horror stories all the time, and actually end up fixing most of them. We always say, “DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME”.

Now this is not to be taken lightly, because the way this pipe was put together in the image connected to this post, this could have been a disaster. This customer could have easily one day came home and maybe by accident she left water on and with the repair being faulty as shown in the photo. This could have caused a flood that could have caused tens of thousands of dollars. If the repair is performed the wrong way there is always the possibility of danger for a home, you should always go with a plumber who takes care of the problem in a thorough fashion. You can check out some of our reviews on our Google Business listing.

We don’t have anything to hide, feel free to look through our photo gallery, check out some of our videos on our website,   and see what type of repairs we perform and give us a call today. We perform all plumbing repair, that also includes all gas leaks and gas pipe installations needed for a residential home or business located in Palmdale or Lancaster areas.

 

Hydro-Jetting Keeps Your Sewer Line Open

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Hydro jetting is one of the most efficient ways of doing preventive maintenance to your personal sewer line, the hydro jet uses a high pressure water that could reach up to 4000 PSI. This high pressure water has an attachment on the front of the equipment that has strategic aim and makes sure that the walls of the sewer line are cleared of all debris, and once the wall is cleared of all its debris,  the attachment also has a water distribution in the front which pushes everything that falls from the walls of the pipe forward to the main sewer line which ensures that you have a more free-flowing experience. Hydro jetting also remove root intrusion inside the piping.

A lot of people don’t realize that once a pipe has been inside the ground for so many years it is dried out of its moisture and things begin to go wrong, hence we have root intrusion. To educate you, roots only want water and nutrients, if they could find it they will follow any type of source or opening that is available. And when you have dried out pipes brittle and worn down they will leak the sewage water into the soil and the trees can smell that water and waste. Watch the trees smell that water touching the dirt Underground they send the roots to the broken source to gather as much water as possible. The Roots find the break in the pipe, it enters the pipe by growing stage-by-stage, and once it is inside the pipe it gets stronger and stronger and stronger. And the stronger it gets the bigger it gets the more obstruction that would be in the pipe, this would cause a blockage for sure once it reaches a certain Mass. The photo that you see attached to this post is a commercial grade sewer line and this is one type of buildup, as you can see there has to be a combination of grease, dirt ,film and Etc… Preventive Maintenance is the way to go.

Why Are My Floor’s Hot?

Today in sunny Lancaster California we got a call from a customer complaining about her kitchen floor feeling as if there was a stove of some sort underneath the concrete. The customer also informed us that there was steam almost a humid feeling  inside the entire home, so someone was dispatched immediately to go assess the issue. The technician had done all the necessary testing to diagnose properly, and found that the customer had what we call in this profession of Plumbing a slab leak.

So the customers heart dropped to find out what had to be done in order to fix the slab leak. We let her know that the pipe could possibly be rerouted it or she could actually repipe the whole entire house and get the pipes out of the ground completely, or just do like what’s inside the picture above and repair the pipe that is actually damaged. Most customers go with the direct repair of the piping which is like what’s inside the picture above, but my professional opinion is that all the piping that is inside the ground has been they’re the same amount of time the pipe that is damage has been there. So I would suggest repiping the entire home, don’t be intimidated by the process of repiping, trust me being in the business for as long as I have it’s not that bad when repairing walls or whatever has to be done to repipe the home. This is single-handedly one of the best things you could ever invest in when purchasing a home or owning a home.

To me it’s another way of saying the piping system starts new with you, you actually know the date that all brand new piping was installed into your property. If you could do that with every major component in your home you will have pleasant, less stressful, days to come in your home. This is what we call here at Daniel Plumbing And Maintenance preventive maintenance as well.

Toilet installations- We service and repair all toilets

Toilet Installations

Call Daniel Plumbing And Maintenance today to get your brand new toilet installation for a reasonable price. We come out we remove them repair what’s necessary and install a brand new toilet of your choice. Sometimes nothing is wrong with the toilet and you need to change it for other reasons. The existing one just might be a little too low, or the existing one doesn’t  have a strong flush. Well what ever the reason may be we can handle the installation with no problem and in a very professional manner we leave the work area looking just like it did before we got there but better because there is a new toilet there now.

   We make sure that everything is locked down tight no Wiggles no leaks equals a happy customer. One thing that we do not do is sell fear, if your home or business does not need the repair we won’t suggest it, we will handle only what you called us out to do. Our slogan is, “Do It Right The First Time”.  Believe me if you don’t do it right the first time you will regret it in Mass proportions. If you have what we call a improper install that could possibly lead to a flooded-out house to say the least.