Locating and Maintaining Main/Auxiliary Water Shutoff Valves
If you have a plumbing emergency, or if you decide to do some plumbing maintenance yourself, knowing how to shut off the water supply can be critical to a successful outcome.
How to Recognize a Plumbing Emergency
What is the difference between a plumbing problem and a plumbing emergency? It’s important to know because emergency calls are expensive, but prolonged or severe water damage can seriously strain your pocketbook and put your health and safety at risk.
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Winterize Your Outdoor Faucets
Ice can form in water supply pipes leading to exposed outdoor faucets when temperatures dip to 28 degrees or below. If your outdoor faucets aren’t properly prepared for winter, water damage from frozen pipes may occur.
Fortunately, you can winterize your outdoor faucets in just a few easy steps
Is Your Plumbing Ready for the Holiday Season?
As the holiday season approaches, your plumbing fixtures and pipes could use a little loving attention to ensure that you—and your guests—make it through the festivities without mishap. Take a few minutes to walk through your house and check your plumbing. Most of the issues and/or problems listed below are easily remedied. You can do many of them yourself.
Our checklist to help keep things operating smoothly:
7 Things You Should Know About Tankless Water Heaters
Is a Tankless Water Heater on Your Horizon?
With the trend towards bigger homes and greater energy efficiency, the conversation around tankless water heating systems has gotten louder.
Tips for Troubleshooting Conventional Water Heater Woes
Is your normally dependable supply of hot water letting you down? Suddenly there isn’t any, or it runs out halfway through your shower? Is there a nasty odor, or a cloudy or colored flow when you turn on the faucet?
Fortunately, conventional (tank) water heaters–both electric and gas–have more or less retained their simplicity in this age of increasingly sophisticated appliances. Thankfully, troubleshooting a conventional water heater also remains pretty straightforward.
High Efficiency WaterSense Toilets
Early toilets were technically simple: something to sit on over a hole in the ground. Eventually—and thankfully—enterprising minds invented the flushable toilet and the sewer systems that took our waste away and let us focus on other, more pleasant things. But, when our beloved planet’s imminent peril became the subject of discussion back in the 1980s, we turned our attention back to this lowly piece of porcelain and began a much needed march toward high efficiency toilets.