Shower Clogged Amsterdam
Everyone knows the joy of taking a hot shower in a cold weather and a cold shower on a hot steamy day. This joy can be taken away from you if you don’t get your shower head and shower drains maintained time to time. There can be a lot of reasons behind the low pressure of water in your shower and slow drainage, which can make the shower not a very good experience. We are one of the plumbing company in Amsterdam who love to help people with their everyday plumbing problems, especially clearing out clogs. Shower clogs are one of the most common clogs that occur in the area and our plumbers have a good amount of experience in finding the causes and fixing the problem is a short amount of time. You can get the services of our plumbers by call use, dropping you address and telling us about the problem you are facing.
Different Types of Clogs in Your Shower
There are two main types of clogs in your shower. If the water coming out of the shower has a very low pressure, there is a clog which is stopping the water flow through the nozzles and if the water is backing up in your shower and there is a slow drainage then the blockage is in the shower drain.
Shower Drain Clog
There can be a lot of reason for the shower drain clog. As the shower drain is usually a simple one without a filter or a trap to catch any foreign object but the top of the shower drain usually comes with a strainer, a shower plate or a hair stopper, which are very useful in avoiding shower drain clogs. If the water backs ups when you shower, even if it is like a half an inch of backed up water it can lead to a lot of trouble because of the blockage in the shower drain. This usually happens to the people with long hair, when they shower, some of the hair get loose and go down the drain, sometime the can make their way out of your drainage system but usually certain hair products like oils, soaps, shampoos and much more can form a grease in your shower drain, which will catch any hair strands or other things going down the drain. With the passage of time there can be a bunch of hair stuck to your shower drain and it will be the cause of the blockage and water backups in your shower. If you come across a shower drain clog and you live in Amsterdam, you can just get help of our plumbers who have a lot of experience in clearing the shower drain clogs and other blockages.
Showerhead Clog
Some times when your shower head is not preforming very well, it is spraying water in a funky patterns and water is coming out only of a few nozzles. It mean that there is blockage or a clog in your showerhead. May be you showerhead is too old and some of its nozzles have been damaged over time. Usually the water that we use in our daily life in hard water apart from the water we drink. It has a lots of salts especially calcium salts. These salts dissolve in water under a lot of carbon dioxide usually in the water reserves, under a lower temperature. When this water moves in the shower nozzles, the temperature of the water increase a little bit, causing the salt, which is most commonly calcium carbonate, to solidify and block the water nozzles of your showerhead. If your love to have hot water showers again and again then is problem is more likely to happen to you. It is just like the salts stuck to the sides of your electric kettle, if you don’t clean it for a few days. If you open your showerhead and see white spots near or in the nozzles then it means that your shower head is stuffed with calcium deposits. In some of the rare case, if you don’t use your shower for a long period of time, the high concentration of nutrients in water like phosphorus and nitrogen can cause the formation of algae in your showerhead, blocking it completely. If you live in Amsterdam with a weirdly spraying main showerhead or a clogged hand showerhead and you want to enjoy their full potential. Give us a call and will provide you with a good and effective solution.
How to Avoid a Clogged Shower
Typically a showerhead clog can be very hard to avoid, but sometimes if it is annoying you very much, it will be the best to get it changed with a modern one. Most of the modern showerheads come with a filter screen which are not only very effective in avoiding clogged showerheads but also are very easy to clean than clearing a clog in traditional shower head.
A shower drain clog can also be a bit hard to avoid as you can’t stop every hair strand that falls of your body in a hair stopper or a strainer. Everybody uses soaps and shampoos which are usually oil based and make greases in the shower drain. So in order to avoid a shower clog you will have to get a very good quality strainer, hair stopper or a shower plate that is effective in avoiding clogs. You can also get your shower drains maintained time to time to avoid any major blockage. If are facing a clogged shower in Amsterdam then it is very easy to get it fixed, simply call us and we will send you one of our experienced plumbers with excellent unclogging skills, who will help you clear out the clog.
How to Deal with Shower Clogs on Your Own.
In case of a showerhead clog there can be three different ways to clean it. First way is to clean the nozzles, now it might sound to be a hectic job to do but most of the shower nozzles are flexible and you can get rid of the mineral stuck in them by simply using your hand or rubbing it with the help of a brush. The second way is one of the most effective way in cleaning the showerheads, you will need to soak the showerhead in vinegar and water solution, there are two ways to do that, if you don’t want to disassemble your shower to take off the showerhead then you can take a plastic bag, fill it with vinegar water and wrap it around the showerhead so that all of the showerhead is completely soaked in vinegar water. If you can disassemble and take out the shower then you can fill a bowl of vinegar water and leave the showerhead in it for four to five hours. Just make sure all of the showerhead is dipped in water and you leave the calcium deposits to dissolve in the vinegar water for enough time. The third way is only applicable to the showers which come with a filter screen, for that you will have to look at the shower manual that comes in the shower packing. You can take out the shower screen, clean it and then put it back on according to the instructions in the manual. If you need help in unclogging your showerhead then be sure to call the best plumbers in the area, if you are in Amsterdam, we will be glad to help you.
In case of a shower drain clog you will have to remove the shower plate, strainer or the hair stopper in order to access the drain. If you can see a ball of hair or any other thing that is causing the stoppage then you can just take it out with a long screw driver or some other long tool. If you can’t see any blockage, only standing water, the blockage might bit far in the pipe and you will need a longer tool with sharp edges to break or take out the clog. Keeping a plunger snake can be useful in this case as it can help you remove the clog. Our plumbers in Amsterdam have a lot of unclogging tools, this includes electric snakes, hand augers, closet augers and pressurized water jets to clear out the clogs in your showers and any other types of blockages that are causing water backups.
Our Shower and Other Unclogging Services
We have a lot of experience when it comes to unclogging simple and complex clogs. We have a whole team of plumbers with a lot of members only dedicated to clear out different types of clogs in Amsterdam, this of course include clogged showers. We are available round the clock to serve the residents of Amsterdam and we provide with long lasting and cost-effective solutions. We have a lot of satisfied customers here, along with a very good reputation. If you come across a clogged showerhead or a clogged shower drain, call us right away to get that fixed as we are available rounds the clock for our customers in Amsterdam. Tell us where you live and your plumbing problem and we will send you and expert plumbers who will the best in dealing with your problem.