The following information should help you to assure that your Air-conditioning is keeping your home as cool as possible without wasting too much valuable energy. The information in this article can help you decide if you need a professional to service your Air-conditioning, to assure that the A/C keeps on working and cooling as efficiently as possible, saving you money.

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 design of the system, proper installation, and regular maintenance of the septic system are required. Basic maintenance of the septic tank is necessary to prevent dirty, foul-smelling odors and bacteria from threatening your family's health and surrounding groundwater free of sewer pollution.

A very common bathroom plumbing problem is having a toilet that won’t flush properly or won’t flush at all. If the toilet doesn't flush at all, now matter how hard you pull the handle, then there could be a couple of things wrong with it, depending on the type and brand of toilet you have.

Concentric-float fill valve

The most common flushing mechanism used by professional plumbers nowadays is the more modern flush valve assembly that is all plastic with only a few moving parts and only one little circular rubber part controlling the flow of water to the tank, called a “Tank fill valve”. The newer concentric-float fill valve consists of a tower which is encircled by a plastic float assembly. Operation is otherwise the same as a side-float fill valve, even though the float position is somewhat different.

Over time your shower heads might get rusty, the showerhead can get damaged or just wear out. If this happens it’s time to replace the old shower head with a new shower head.  In this Plumbing How To we will show you how to change a shower head and what to look for when you want to buy a new shower head.

Often the source of a leaking lavatory underneath the lavatory basin will be a leaking drain trap. Closely following in second place are the faulty connections between the lavatory basin drain and the lavatory drain line also called the "tailpiece". This article will offer some tips to help you fix your leaking lavatory drain.

The toilet float valve allows water to enter the tank of your toilet, when the water level rises so will the hollow float / ball, at a certain point the toilet float will reach its highest level causing it to shut off the valve to stop the water supply to the toilet cistern. When a float valve or ballcock wears out it will not close properly anymore and water the water level in your tank will keep on rising and eventually seep down into the toilet bowl.

Once in a while when we flush toilets, instead of the water going out of the toilet bowl down into the drain, the water will come back up together with what you just deposited into the toilet. To help you learn how to unclog a clogged toilet there are a few simple things to keep in mind while unclogging the toilet.

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 to save water. The dual flush toilets and low flow toilets are quickly gaining interest in countries where water is in short supply, but are also gaining popularity among concerned consumers in the United States.

This article will show you how to install a hot water mixing valve onto your own water lines with the help of some simple tools. A hot water mixing valve mixes a little hot water to the cold water line going to your toilet to keep your toilet from sweating or forming condensation around the toilets tank.