The Holiday Season is a happy time.
During the Holidays we enjoy visits from our friends, family and even Santa Claus.
Although you love your friendly plumber, we don’t enjoy having emergency plumbing house calls.
Here are a few simple tips to help keep your Holiday parties and pipes running smoothly:
1. Keep drains free of cooking oil and grease. Scrape food and grease from plates into the trash. Pour off cooking grease from pans and bake ware into a can. Let it cool before placing it in the trash. Collect turkey frying oil and take it to the local household collection facility for free. The tallow company picks it up and recycles it.
2. Beware of the “unflushables.” Household cleaning wipes, facial wipes, baby wipes, toilet bowel cleaning pads, diapers, dental floss, feminine hygiene products and condoms should be disposed in the trash. When flushed they can hang up on roots in sewer lines and cause a stroke of disaster.
3. Keep your sewer lines free-flowing and root free. Use a snake to clean out roots. Don’t use copper root killers. They are toxic to the environment and treatment plants where the waste water flows. If trees grow over your sewer lines you may need to schedule regular visits from a qualified plumber to remove them safely.
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The tankless water heater is an ingenious, home water heating innovation that has been on the market for a number of years now and is becoming increasingly popular with consumers due to its long term energy and cost saving potential.
A tankless water heater looks and operates very differently from a traditional storage water heater, so everyday maintenance can sometimes be a challenge for the unfamiliar homeowner.
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Are you a plumber? Are you interested in increasing business and making more money?
If you answered yes to both of these questions there is one thing you should consider doing: create a website. Still not convinced?
Here are three benefits of having your own website:
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Hiring a plumber for any job, big or small, can make even the most confident consumer shrivel with fear.
The fact of the matter is that hiring a plumber is not always as easy as it sounds. You may think that everything is okay jut to learn that you either spent too much money, or hired the wrong person for the job.
The following tips may not be well known, but they can help you hire the right plumber for the job:
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Everybody knows it: it’s ‘conventional wisdom,’ passed down generation to generation. It applies to anything and everything and unfortunately, in many cases, it’s oversimplified or just plain wrong.
The conventional wisdom in plumbing is no different; there are many myths. Freshen your drain with lemon? Run water with the garbage disposal? Good ideas? Find out as we explore the top 10 plumbing myths that cost you money!
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Are you the type of homeowner who thinks he can fix anything and everything? Do you make it a habit of repairing any plumbing mishaps in your home?
If so, and you don’t know what you are doing, you may end up causing thousands of dollars in damage before you know what hit you.
Hopefully, this will make you think twice before grabbing your wrench next time!
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There are many options available to people who are about to undergo a home improvement project. You can hire a general contractor, an architect, or a designer; you could get a handyman or just do it yourself.
But which choice best suits each homeowner’s specific needs and interests? During our 7th Blog-Off, we asked our panel of over 50 home improvement experts to weigh in…
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There is a lot of joy involved with updating your home. At the same time, this can cost a bit of time and money as well.
If you are planning on making your own updates, without the help of professionals, you need to make sure you are up for this.
Remember, there are some tasks that if done wrong can cause you more headaches than you ever imagined.
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In the plumbing world a small leak is a serious problem. Unfortunately, many homeowners do not feel the same way.
They are under the impression that a small problem like this will take care of itself; this is not usually the case.
How can such a small leak turn into such a big problem? Well, here are three ways:
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In this economy, DIY plumbing seems like the best way to save money on plumbing repairs for a lot of do-it-yourself extraordinaires who want to try their hands at fixing leaky faucets and dripping showerheads.
Buying a shower valve, turning off the water to the house, installing the new part, and turning the water back on appear to be fairly simple tasks, but small repairs sometimes are not so simple.
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