Beware of Brown Friday: Plumbers’ Busiest Day of the Year
While throngs of shoppers descend on stores everywhere in pursuit of the best sales this Black Friday, hordes of plumbers will be dispatched across the nation to deal with the ugly aftermath of those gut-busting Thanksgiving feasts: clogged disposals, pipes, and toilets.
Welcome to Brown Friday, the busiest day of the year for plumbers.
“With everybody having guests and family in town, the plumbing system is under more demand,” says Beau Means, operations manager at Benjamin Franklin Plumbers in Wichita, KS. “It can become overloaded.”
The day after Thanksgiving is twice as busy as any other day of the year—even more so than Hanukkah and Christmas, he says.
“The meal preparation tends to cause clogs in the kitchen sinks and disposals,” says Paul Abrams, spokesman for Roto-Rooter, a plumbing and drain company with more than 600 locations in the U.S. and Canada. “When you have a house full of guests, they tend to flush toilets more often. They’re taking more showers, and it may lead to extra laundry loads.”
The top problem the company sees are backed-up kitchen sinks and disposals overflowing with turkey bones, vegetable peelings, and just about anything else that went into the Thanksgiving dinner.
That’s followed by blocked sewer lines (which include all household wastewater) and then toilets that won’t flush. (Thank Uncle Pete, who ate the last helping of baked beans, for that last one.)
If these tips fail and something does go wrong, folks shouldn’t hesitate to call a plumber. Many don’t charge extra over the holidays—although it may take a little longer for them to pry themselves away from their own Thanksgiving feasts to reach their destinations.
“It can’t hurt to call and ask,” Abrams says.
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