Plumbing Information

On the Off Chance Your Pipes Might Freeze

If you live around Riverside or the surrounding inland areas, you know winter nights get chilly, and occasionally temps can drop rapidly to a record below freezing. In places where such temperatures are atypical and houses aren’t constructed for sub-zero weather as in northern states and Canada, knowing how to prevent your pipes from freezing is essential. Nothing creates a bigger, more expensive mess than burst pipes, a real possibility around 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Keeping Your Drain Free from Clogs

No matter where you live in San Diego or the surrounding areas, chances are you’ve experienced the annoyance of a clogged drain. Worse yet are the time, trouble, and expense taken to eliminate the clog and fix the resulting extended damage. For instance, liquid drain cleaners are often too destructive. Got metal pipes? Chemical cleaners erode some metals, weakening pipes in areas and leaving them susceptible to leaks. Sometimes one treatment doesn’t do the trick; multiple attempts with drain cleaners compound the problem without even taking care of the initial clog and leave you with a bigger and more expensive repair job on your hands. Drain snakes are available to handle immediate clogs, unless the blockage is so far back that it’s unreachable except for a professional (for instance, roots in sewage retainers or obstructions in your septic tank).

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DIY Plumbing Repair: Running Toilet Keeping you Up at Night?

We all know that sound, the water constantly running no matter how many times you kick it. It’s quite simple to fix so don’t let that annoyance bother you anymore. This Do It Yourself project will be beneficial for the years to come.

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Preventing Drain Clogs

Prevention is the best cure, even when it comes to home drains. Clogged drains are best avoided by adopting everyday habits that reduce the chance of clogging, while performing more arduous drain cleaning tasks at regular intervals.

Save Your Drains from a Halloween Scare

What does plumbing have to do with carving pumpkins?

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Believe it or not, Halloween can be a scary time for kitchen sinks and drains, garbage disposals and even toilets. No, we’re not talking about the consequences of an accidental overload on Halloween candy, but the misconceptions about dealing with pumpkin scraps. We put together a list of simple rules of thumb on to how to avoid clogged drains and avert serious plumbing disasters during the Halloween season.

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Clogged Drain Health Alert

How to clean clogged sink Keeping your drains clean not only saves you a headache by preventing an unpleasant drain clog, but it also protects you and your family from harmful bacteria, infestations of drain insects, and odors originating in your home’s drains and plumbing systems.

When a drain clogs, you can attempt to unclog the pipe with simple home solutions without calling a plumbing company, but it is always important to remember certain safety measures when taking on do-it-yourself plumbing projects.

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Energy Efficient Plumbing

While standing over your running faucet, do you ever think about what a shame it is to waste all of that cold water while you wait to feel hot water emerge? Sure you do. Not only is it entirely wasteful to nature, but also wasteful of your time.

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Water Heater Energy Saving Solutions

Should you keep your old water heater or buy a new model to save energy?

Save Energy - Install New Water Heater If you’re not aware of what the bulk of your home’s energy use goes to, you may be interested to know that water heater tanks are a major source of energy waste in most households. Old homes are usually equipped with outdated water heaters that are close to retirement, but if you’re hesitating about making that big investment to buy a brand new one, you can still start saving money without installing a new unit.

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Q&A: All about Water Heaters

AnyTyme Service Manager answers water heater questions

As the dreaded day comes when the hot water just isn’t flowing or worse, you come home and your house is flooded, there is very little an average homeowner can do to fix the problem. Most people are lucky if they know whether their water heater is gas or electric, let alone where to start when the unit breaks down. Javier Vidrio, the service manager at 1800AnyTyme answers the most pressing questions concerning water heater maintenance, repair and installation.

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What Makes a Great Plumber?

What makes a great plumber? With an overwhelming number of companies offering similar plumbing services, it can be tricky to choose the right plumber. Ideally, you not only want to find a skilled professional who is reliable and honest, but also someone who you can trust to discreetly work around your home and to be available if you ever run into plumbing emergencies. Expertise in a variety of plumbing problems is the first obvious quality to look for, but just like with any other service, you want a respectful, friendly and helpful individual to guide you through the process and deliver the most cost-efficient and quick solution.

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Leaky Faucet Help

The incessant dripping sound of a kitchen faucet is enough to drive anyone nuts. The dreaded leaky faucet is one of the most common plumbing problems homeowners have to deal with, and while generally it is simple to fix it, we often put off this task and put in ear plugs instead. It is important to repair a leaky faucet to not only maintain your peace of mind, but also to conserve precious water resources, and in the process save money on your water bill. The range of possible causes of a leak is long, and the degree of difficulty of fixing the leak varies depending on which type of faucet you have. This guide is designed to help narrow down the possible sources causing your faucet to leak and to guide you through the repair process.

Drain Clogs, Part Two

A Second Shot at Drain Clogs – Plungers and Augers

If our natural drain cleaning solutions failed to work or you would rather not use any type of drain cleaner there are several mechanical ways of clearing a drain clog.

Replacing Toilets

Installing a Toilet – the Other Half of the Job

As we said earlier, it doesn’t happen often but toilets do crack or break. More often the seal around the waste pipe will fail allowing water and waste to leak onto the floor or into the ceiling below. Obviously, it’s not a problem that can be ignored.

Toilet Tanks

Replacing a Broken Toilet Tank

With the exception of the metal and plastic fittings inside the tank, toilets are really built to last a lifetime, but they are made of china and in their own way fragile. Every so often disaster strikes and the tank, tank lid, or the bowl will crack or break.

Shutoff Valves

Don’t Wait for a Flood to Locate the Shut-Off

When you move into a new house, a priority should be locating the shut-off valve for the domestic water supply. If you have been living in the house for years and don’t know where this crucial item is, figure it out immediately. Next, make sure you can operate the shut-off in the case of an emergency.