A relaxing vacation can feel like a dream but coming home to a flooded house is more than a brutal nightmare. Even while the water is not being used, a risk still remains. In order to truly enjoy your vacation to the fullest, take the necessary steps to safeguard your home from flooding. Preparation is…
By selecting the right plumbing fixtures you can save money in the long run. With water and power costs rising as quickly as they have been of late, the long run is happening quicker than ever. Rather than replacing your old hot water heater with another standard water heater that holds and heats 40 to…
The most widely used water heater today is the conventional storage water heater. These are most often found in businesses and homes according to the guys at All About The Pipes Plumbing Inc. These tanks can store and heat from 6 to 100 gallons of water. The technology is quite simple. Cold water enters the…
Plumbing can be a nightmare and not many homeowners have the skills or tools necessary to solve the problem. The key to saving money is to be as prepared as possible. Without proper preparation, complications with plumbing can become quite expensive to repair. Here are some simple steps you can take to be ready in…
Many homeowners do not realize the importance of having clean pipes throughout and around the entire house. Leaving pipes untreated can lead to foul smells or more importantly waste backup, which can lead to high expenses in repairs. Before shelling out unnecessary costs for broken or damaged pipes, consider how regular cleaning by professionals can…
In our work day travels “All About the Pipes” is on occasion asked why bathtub drain stoppers get stuck. We must admit that we run into that situation fairly regularly, particularly in older homes. We found that there are two main reasons for drain stoppers to fail. The most common reason is that the stopper…
Waste backups can result from any number of causes. By running a specially designed tiny camera through the sewer line, we can find the cause without going through an expensive process of trial and error. Many older houses in Charlotte have cast iron pipes. Over time they develop fish-like scales on the inside that obstructs…
There are multiple benefits to having good water quality in the home. First, there are both obvious and not so obvious health benefits that may be difficult to quantify precisely, however most people would agree that their preference would be having any of these subtle benefits working for them instead of against them. Even trace…
Homeowners might be annoyed if local zoning ordinances require testing and possible upgrades to septic systems if more bedrooms are being added to a home. There are, however, very good reasons for those requirements. Each person added to a household adds to the water usage of that home. Septic systems are designed to handle a…
Disastrous attempts at home plumbing repairs make for a laugh on TV, but they’re not funny when they happen in real life. The flip side, though, is the dismay of spending hard-earned money to have a plumber do something you could have done far less expensively yourself. How is a homeowner to decide which is…