There are a number of major plumbing emergencies that are impossible to miss. One of the most alarming is when you turn on a tap in your house and discover that there’s no water coming from it. You try other taps around the house, and the result is all the same.
We recently wrote a reminder about why chemical drain cleaners are an absolute no-no when it comes to actually cleaning drains. (Or even simply removing a clog.) In this post, we’re going to look at another common consumer method for “drain cleaning,” which is the manual drain snake, also known as a drain auger.
Temperatures are dropping here in Chicagoland, a reminder that the serious cold weather of winter isn’t far away. It’s time to fire up the furnace in your home and settle in for the heating season.
The water heater in your home is a device that needs to be operating properly 365 days a year, no matter the weather outside. Every day you must have hot water on demand for cooking, cleaning, showering, and bathing.
Many people don’t realize that plumbing involves installing and fixing pipes that don’t carry water or waste through a home. Plumbing also includes gas piping for houses that have a natural gas connection to a municipal source.
We recently put up a post about the caution you need to take around this time of year about what goes down your garbage disposal. November and December are months when more cooking takes place than usual, not only for Thanksgiving feasts but also for parties and to feed visiting relatives.
If you’re currently looking around for a heating option for a new home, a boiler is probably on your list of possible choices. But how high is it on the list? The fact is that boilers are not as common when it comes to residential heating as forced-air systems (such as furnaces).
We hope you had a happy Halloween season—and we also hope you didn’t have to make an emergency plumbing call to fix a broken disposal. The #1 reason for plumbing calls during Halloween season is because of pumpkin pulp jamming up garbage disposals.
Water heaters are not seasonal devices: you and your family need to have a supply of hot water on demand every day of the year. So when your water heater starts to show signs that it is failing to deliver the amount of water you require day to day, it’s something you need to have looked into right away.
