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From cooking to cleaning and manufacturing to shipping, humans consume excessive amounts of the earth’s most precious resource. Since only 1% of the earth’s water is available for human consumption, we need to reduce the amount of water we use.
Excessive water consumption occurs in our homes everyday. Curious to know how much water your own home is wasting? With the help of our Blog-Off experts, we’ve compiled information on US residential water consumption.
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Urinals are hard to maintain especially if they are in high-traffic public places.
Urinals are that they can clog easily, the auto-flush may not work properly, and stalls are often damaged due to vandalism.
Urinal require the service of an experienced commercial plumber more frequently than regular bathrooms.
When a shower head is leaking, even with the faucets off, it’s an annoying and possibly expensive situation.
In most cases, the washer needs to be replaced. However, there are usually two other causes of a leaky shower head.
The pipe connecting to the head may be the cause of the leak, or the holes in the shower head are clogged.
A sweating toilet bowl can cause mildew and mold growth in your bathroom.
Toilet bowls sweat because the air around the toilet is considerably warmer than the temperature of the toilet water. This creates condensation and causes the toilet to sweat.
You can purchase an anti-sweat toilet kit to insulate the tank and reduce condensation.
There are many different types of shower heads available today.
They pulsate, massage, spray, and trickle, but installation might not be as simple as you think.
Professional help might be needed with installation. Some shower heads can be quickly changed. But, not every shower head will fit on your current fixtures.
Shower pans often need to be replaced or repaired.
If you notice grout missing in places, a gap between the wall and the tile, water leaking from the pan to the lower floor, or discoloration of the flooring it’s time for repair as soon as possible.
Shower pans replacement can be done without altering your current shower setup.
Many homeowners have experienced a toilet that seems to flush by itself.
If this has ever happened to you, you probably wondered if you needed to call a plumber or ghost busters. It’s not so mysterious…just a problem in the plumbing.
A toilet may flush by itself when the Douglas valve seal becomes warped.
This situation can be very confusing.
Is the toilet bowl is leaking from bolts or just sweating?
Your first step will be to determine the source of the problem.
One way to is to add some food coloring to the toilet bowl. Let it sit for a few minutes, then flush. If you have a leak, the colored water will leak from the base.
If you have a leaky tub, you want to find the leak and repair it before further damage occurs.
There are many reasons why tubs leak including: leaky drains, pipes or the tub itself. Leaking tubs are not as uncommon as people think.
They do deteriorate with age.
When you take a shower and you lose hot water when someone else in the home runs water, the problem may be that your main water pipes are too small.
New pipes might need to be installed in the home.
Or, there could be sediment buildup or corrosion at the opening of the water heater hot water valve.
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