Ever notice condensation around your pipes, fixtures, or toilet tanks? This phenomenon, often referred to as plumbing sweat, is the result of warm, humid air meeting cooler pipes and toilets – much like you’d see on a glass of cold lemonade on a hot day. Plumbing sweat require extra wiping to keep the areas dry.…
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When It’s Time to Call a Plumber
Have you ever faced a home maintenance problem and thought: “I can fix this”? But try as you might, you just can’t seem to fix it? You might even call in reinforcements, like the neighbor who seems to know how to fix everything. Yet he or she, too, are left scratching their head. The truth…
What Causes Low Water Pressure, and What Can Be Done About It?
Water pressure. When it’s right, you don’t think about it. When it slows down – and stays slow – something needs to be done before you get totally frazzled. Let’s say, for example, you can’t effectively wash your dishes while someone else takes a shower. Or, more commonly, two people can’t take a shower at…
How to Remove Water from Your Basement
There you are, working at home on a wet, rainy day. This is one time you’re happy to be indoors, home schooling and work-from-home and all. After a while, you step away from your laptop to put in a load of laundry. After separating colors from whites, you grab the basket and head downstairs. Before…
Why is My Fridge Leaking?
As new and shiny as it might be, even a new refrigerator can leak. Worse, water leaks aren’t always easy to spot. So, new or older, you need to keep an eye on things to avoid costly water leaks and potential resulting damage. The most problematic of all fridge water leaks is the water line…
Anti-Scald Shower Valves
About 25% of all emergency room visits stem from slips and falls, and most of them occur at home. Even more striking, seniors and young children are at the greatest risk, especially in the bathroom. While there are several ways to beef up bathroom safety, our focus today is on equipping your showerhead with an…
Why You Need a Backup Sump Pump
What sorts of things do you store or allow to be stored in your basement? Any old thing, or are you more selective? Well, you have the usual items like luggage, washer & dryer, seasonal decorations, tools, work bench, and so on. But what about rain water…do you allow that in your basement? The truth…
How to Prevent Frozen Pipes
When you add up the things you dislike most about winter, we’re betting you need all your fingers and toes…and still have more to add to that list. But here’s the question: is the possibility of your water pipes freezing included? If not, we hope you don’t learn your lesson the hard way. Instead, follow…
The Lighter Side of Plumbing
We’ve been in the plumbing business for a very long time. Not that we don’t come across humorous situations in our heating and cooling work but plumbing just seems to provide more frequent opportunities. Here are to archival stories from the world of plumbing we think you will enjoy: A bank manager contacted a local…
How to Detect a Pipe Leak
Some household water leaks are easy to spot…either by sight, sound, or both. Those can’t do any damage or waste very much water unless you allow them to. But what about pipes that leak inside a wall, under your flooring, in the ceiling, and other places where they can go undetected long enough to cause…
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