When it comes to maintaining a healthy, functional home or business, never overlook the plumbing. Ensuring the water moving through your pipes remains pressurized and contaminant-free requires routine backflow testing and repair by skilled professionals. Here’s what you need to know about these services for your home.

About Backflow Testing & Repairs

“Backflow” refers to dirty water getting sucked into a clean water system, contaminating it with bacteria, fertilizer, sewage, and innumerable other pollutants. Backflow testing checks potable, clean water for contamination. If the tested water is tainted, the plumbers identify any pressure issues contributing to the problem since backflow usually occurs when the water exiting your home or commercial space is more powerful than the water coming in. This means highly pressurized water is contaminating your clean drinking water. Plumbers prevent further contamination by installing devices like backflow preventers — special valves strategically installed throughout your plumbing system. These reduce wastewater pressure to keep your drinking water clean.

Your plumber may also install non-return valves that let water out but not back in, using air gaps that leave spaces between faucets and plumbing connections for cleaner operations. Backflow testing and repairs can also include checking for pipe and slab leaks, as well as drain and sewer cleaning.

The Many Benefits

Scheduling this water test is essential to maintaining a healthy home or business. Without it, water can become subject to a wide range of illness-causing contaminants, including metal, pesticides, bleach, and animal drugs. Biological contaminants such as bacteria, parasites, protozoa, and viruses — as well as radiological contaminants such as plutonium and uranium — can also contaminate drinking water and cause a range of health complications.

Exposure to raw sewage is yet another risk that can cause illnesses such as salmonellosis. Even breathing sewage fumes can cause dizziness, fatigue, headaches, and eye irritation, among other problems. Backflow testing and repair services eliminate these risks to keep your family healthy and your business safe.

To schedule backflow testing and repairs, contact Drain Pro Plumbing in Lakeville, MN. Specializing in outstanding, customer-oriented, affordable plumbing services since 1988, this family-owned company also provides 24/7 emergency repairs. Call (952) 469-6999 today to schedule service or visit the plumbers online for more information and online coupons.