Rainy Season Always Seems To Bring Drain Calls

I was talking to a homeowner this week who swore the rain was causing their drain problems.

Not impossible, I guess. But probably not.

We’d had storms almost every afternoon for several days and that’s when they noticed water wasn’t leaving the sink as quickly as it used to.

It wasn’t completely clogged

That’s what made it interesting. The water still went down.

Just slowly.

Slow enough that they started paying attention to it. Before that, who knows. It might have been doing the same thing for months. We see this a lot. People get used to something little by little and it becomes normal.

Then one day it doesn’t.

Kind of reminded me of my truck

Weird comparison. But stick with me.

My truck has made the same little noise when turning left for probably six months. Every time I hear it I tell myself I’ll look at it later.

Still haven’t. Drain problems are kind of like that.

Anyway

The homeowner mentioned a smell. Not all the time.

Just every now and then.

Standing near the sink I caught it too. Nothing overwhelming. Just enough that you notice it for a second and then it’s gone. The sort of thing that’s easy to ignore until somebody points it out.

That part mattered.

Something else came up

And this really had nothing to do with the drain.

At one point we were talking about how long they’d been in the house and somehow the conversation turned into restaurants that used to be around Bradenton years ago.

No clue how we got there. Service calls are funny sometimes.

Back to the drain

There was buildup in the line. Nothing dramatic.

No broken pipe. No collapsed pipe. No plumbing disaster hiding in the walls. Just years of stuff collecting where it shouldn’t have been collecting.

Honestly, that’s usually how it goes.

The rain gets blamed a lot

Poor rain.

It gets blamed for a lot of things.

Most of the time the storm didn’t create the problem. It just happened to show up around the same time somebody finally noticed it. Kind of like turning the radio down and suddenly hearing a noise your car has been making all week.

Now you can’t unhear it.

Wrapping this one up

The drain was flowing normally again before we left and the homeowner seemed relieved. Not excited. Relieved. That’s usually the reaction with plumbing. Nobody throws a party because a sink drains correctly. They’re just happy life goes back to normal. And honestly, that’s probably how it should be. If you’ve got slow drains, strange smells, backups, or plumbing issues that seem to show up every time Florida gets another afternoon storm, 

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