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Four Ways to Protect Your Beach-Home’s Plumbing from Summertime Sand

6/28/2018

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Protect your plumbing from beach sand using the following tips.
You can keep the sand and other outside debris from clogging your home’s plumbing work by taking a few simple and easy steps.

Do these things before you take your next post-beach shower or run your next laundry load of dirty beach clothes.

Rinse Off Outside

The best way to protect your beach home’s pipes is to keep the sand from getting in them in the first place. One of the best ways to do that is to rinse off before coming inside the house. If you have an outdoor shower, rinse off your entire body before taking your real shower in your bathroom. If you don't have an outdoor shower, you can use a garden hose to rinse off.

Use Newer Pipes

More modern homes use plastic pipes, such as those made out of PVC or ABS. These have smooth interiors which allow for the sand in the water to flow more freely through your pipes. Older homes have metal pipes which tend to have rough interiors. These will catch and trap sand, as well as other particles. This can lead to really bad clogs.

Apply Baby Powder

As you leave the beach but before you get in your car, use baby powder anywhere on your body where there was sand, such as your hands and feet. The baby powder will remove moisture. It’s this moisture which can allow sand to stick to your skin or clothing.

Sit in Chairs at the Beach

​Many people like to use beach towels to sit on the sand, but these towels literally act as sand magnets. Then when you wash the towel, you create the potential for clogs around your washing machine. So, avoid the sand by sitting in chairs the next time you’re at the beach.
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To learn about other ways you can protect your beach home’s plumbing system from sand and clogs, think about contacting Smoak’s Comfort Control today.
9 Comments
Bob link
7/23/2019 05:49:21 pm

I like your tip about using modern pipes like PVC. That makes sense considering you want to have water that doesn't have metal in it. I'll have to consider getting a plumber to check the material of my pipes.

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Plumber Awendaw link
9/16/2019 09:23:32 am

Whenever you detect any type of issue in your drainage like - leakage and clogging. don't worry make a single call to professional plumbers, they arrive at your place and eliminate the issue permanently.

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Jake Martin link
10/30/2019 11:51:46 pm

Keep up the great work! Thank you so much for sharing a great posts.


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Bob link
7/15/2020 09:59:56 pm

I like what you said about rinsing off sand outside of the house away from the pipes. My pipes are full of sand and are getting clogged up. I'll have to consider getting a plumber to rinse out my pipes.

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Rachel Ray-Curl
9/18/2020 12:08:50 am

I have a sand volleyball court. I am putting in an outdoor shower. How do I capture the sand coming off in the shower? I would like to keep it from washing away but capture it and return that sand back to my court.

Shower with a drain that has a way of letting the sand accumulate into something like a tray or container that can be removed and taken back to the sand court.


My original thoughts were something like a hot water heater basin that has a drain on the side. This would allow the sand to accumulate in the basin and removed manually and returned to the court while the water drains out the side drain. I get that there would be some water remaining in the basin below the drain. Putting wet sand back in the court is perfect fine.

Any suggestions on a better idea?

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Charlie Plumber link
12/20/2020 04:37:47 pm

These are some excellent tips. I never thought that towels could transfer sand in my plumbing and that baby powder could help to stop sand from sticking to my body

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Tez link
1/20/2021 05:46:11 pm

Great tip about getting sand out before coming in the house. I am noticing that it is getting in our kitchen pipes. I'll have to hire a plumber to flush it out.

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Peter link
1/26/2021 07:41:43 am

Applying baby powder was a good one, never heard of that before

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John Peters link
1/26/2021 07:43:11 am

Some nice info on here thats very useful for people who have beach home.

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