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Home Winterizing Tips

Feb
06
Home Winterizing Tips

Every winter we receive hundreds of emails about broken or frozen pipes. To help you prevent some of these problems within your own plumbing we have provided a few home winterizing tips to assist you in winterizing your home. Although no plumber can give you a clear guarantee against frozen or broken pipes, it is still useful and even important that you take some preventive winterizing steps.

Sewer Backup Problems

Jan
17
Plumbing How To

Having problems with sewer water backing up, often accompanied by a foul smelling odor is something that can happen to us all. If you don’t want to get your hands dirty trying to locate and unclog the blocked drain it is advisable to call your local plumber.

How to Thaw Frozen Drain Pipes : Tips and Tricks

Jan
03
Plumbing How To

During cold winters with freezing temperatures, frozen water pipes or frozen drain pipes are always a risk. In this Plumbing How To we will show you that when the water inside your plumbing pipes freezes, the ice inside will start to expand and block the flow of water through the frozen pipes and it might even burst pipes.

Unclogging a Drain

Jan
01
Unclogging Drain

In every home over time some parts of the plumbing system might gets clogged. There is just no simple way to escape this. It is however, often very easy to fix most clogged sinks and clogged drains yourself without having to call the plumber to unclog a drain.

Heat Up Small Rooms with a Portable Electric Space Heater

Dec
02
Portable Electric Space Heater

A lot of people buy a space heaters as a supplement to their existing heating system in order to conserve energy. There is a large variety of space heaters available in many different types so it's important to find out what kind of space heater is best suited for your requirements.

A large part of the heater selection process should include where you're going to place the unit. Some electric heaters are meant for larger rooms and some are meant for smaller, so be sure to check out the heater guide at Air-n-Water for some helpful suggestions.

General Plumbing

Hiring a Plumber
For just about any homeowner the day will come when you need to hire a plumber, and it can be quite a costly phone call to make. There are ways, howev...
Dual Flush Toilet Tanks
Dual flush tanks on toilets give you two choices of flushing the toilet. It's an innovation in toilet  plumbing this new toilet design that helps...

Plumbing Installation

Frozen Pipes
With winter slowly approaching it may be a good time to check your plumbing to prevent your plumbing pipes from freezing when the temperature starts t...
Electronic Faucets
Electronic faucets or automatic faucets (sometimes called a sensor faucet) is a faucet with a hands-free mechanism for opening and closing the valves....

Plumbing Repair

Low Water Pressure
Having a low water pressure in your home’s plumbing is a problem that is sometimes easy to solve with some diy plumbing repairs, other times t...
How to Fix a Leaking Faucet
A tap is a valve that is used for controlling the release of water to baths or sinks. The terms Faucet and Spigot are more common in the United States...

HVAC Systems

Home Cooling Systems
Normally our first thought for home cooling will be air conditioning, but there are many alternatives that provide home cooling while using less or...
Hot Water From Boiler
There's nothing worse than being in the shower and ice cold water comes from the hot water faucet. Finding out the problem and why you have no hot w...

Septic Systems

Septic Tank Cleaning
The cleaning and maintenance of septic tanks is perhaps a topic unheard of for those of that live in the city, but for owners of a home in more region...
Plumbing How To
For your home's septic tank and sewer works to keep functioning like they should and to maximize the life of the septic tank and pipes, a careful desi...

Sewer/Drain Cleaning

Septic Tank Cleaning
The cleaning and maintenance of septic tanks is perhaps a topic unheard of for those of that live in the city, but for owners of a home in more region...
Plumbing How To
How often do you use your kitchen sink? For most of us, the kitchen sink is part of the plumbing inside a house we use on a daily basis. That is why h...

Air Conditioning

connect portable a/c exhaust hose
A portable air conditioners should be connected to an "exhaust hose" or "vent hose" to remove the the hot air they eject. Most po...
Home Cooling Systems
Normally our first thought for home cooling will be air conditioning, but there are many alternatives that provide home cooling while using less or...

Plumbing Website

SEO Keywords for the Plumbing Industry
A good company website for plumbers and contractors will get most of its visitors from the long tail search phrases, not 2-3 specific keywords. For pl...
SEO Plumbing
Over the past few months we’ve literally had dozens of plumbers asking us for some free search engine optimization tips and SEO advice to help...