Is Your Plumbing Ready for the Holiday Season

Is Your Plumbing Ready for the Holiday Season?

Blog, Plumbing, Troubleshooting, Water Efficiency

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:

Conventional Water Heater Troubleshooting

Tips for Troubleshooting Conventional Water Heater Woes

Blog, Plumbing, Troubleshooting, Water Heaters

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.