No one has ever met a homeowner that wants to dish out a bunch of cash for a new water heater, especially before its time. Your water heater should last between 10-12 years, with few exceptions, of course. Some of us have seen water heaters perform well beyond their years and others expire before they […]
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If you’ve been a plumber as long as I have, we’ve seen just about everything. In most cases, we know the who, the what, the where, and the why, but we don’t always know the how. In this situation, we didn’t know HOW this family was getting away with using the toilet for so long
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We never want to come home to a plumbing nightmare. So why does it seem like our plumbing nightmares happen when we’re away from home, or sleeping? Whether in your home or elsewhere, there are some things that we can do to avoid that plumbing nightmare. In some cases, you’ll have signs of a more
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A word of advice from your licensed gas line installation expert. Don’t attempt installing any gas lines in your home, whether you’re a good do-it-yourselfer (DIY) or not, that includes both propane or natural gas lines. Leave those installations up to your licensed plumbing contractor. And we’re not talking about the small flexible gas line
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If you’re like the majority of us, we run our homes on a tight budget. For most homeowners, you can estimate the utility costs to within a few bucks. Then it hits! An outrageously high water bill. The first thing that comes to mind is that we need to start cracking down on those long
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My sewer line continues to back up even after being cleared. And it has the scent of sewage around the house, I’m beginning to think this is more than a clogged sewer line. Does that sound familiar? We had a camera inspection completed on the sewer line, and the diagnosis was a broken sewer line.
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It’s hard to think that any family in the US has ever had to live without hot water, a bathtub, or a toilet that flushed. The fact is that back in the 1940s, half the homes in America were not equipped with any of the three simultaneously. If you had all three, it was considered
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Is your pipe giving you the signs that your home may need a whole house repiping? At one time or another, every new home had state-of-the-art plumbing. From the ’30s and even into the ’60s, galvanized pipes were the go-to piping for home builders. However, it wasn’t until copper became popular in the ’50s and
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Hot water on demand? Well, sign me up! We want it now, and that includes hot water. Most of us can’t even wait a second for a page to load on our computers or smartphones. These water heaters are commonly known as tankless, on-demand, continuous flow, and instant flow water heaters. Because of all their
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We’ve heard the jokes and stories about plumbers. Someone will have a bad experience with a plumber and pass that experience on to a friend or neighbor. Before you know it, the story went viral, and every plumber is a suspect. While we can’t vouch for every plumber, we can say that the vast majority
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Make Big B’s Plumbing your “Plumber for Life.” Not long ago, we had long-lasting relationships with our dentists, doctor, auto mechanic, and even tradespeople. I remember our dentist was Dr. Fleming, and our plumber was John Sutherland. If anything went wrong with our plumbing, my mom would say, “Call John.” She didn’t say, “Call a
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