Slash Those Bills: Plumbing Upgrades That Can Save You Money

Are your water and electricity bills too high? You don’t have to grin and bear the extra expense. One way to cut down on utilities is by upgrading your plumbing system. Below are just a few recommendations that you can consider.

Install a Pressure Reducing Valve

Many households use more water than they really need because there’s simply too much water pressure in their pipes. In reality, your family probably won’t notice a change if you dropped your home’s water pressure from 70 to 35 psi (pressure per square inch). Luckily, you can install a pressure reducing valve to automatically control the amount of pressure that flows into your pipe system. However, you will need the help of a professional Edmonton plumbing contractor to measure your home’s psi and to install the pressure valve.

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Plumbing Tips: 3 Toilet Maintenance Tips to Keep It Going for Longer

Toilets are one of the few modern conveniences that many people tend to overlook—until the toilet starts malfunctioning. Such a problem can easily lead to costly water damage, or worse, sewage backups that “flush down” the contents of your wallet and expose your family to a bevy of health risks.

Fortunately, there are many ways to ensure your toilet works perfectly for the entirety of its service life. Whether you just had a new toilet installed by plumbing professionals in Edmonton or you simply want to make sure you get the most out of your existing toilet, here are a few maintenance tips to help you out:

Hydrogen Peroxide Over Harsh Chemicals

When it comes to disinfecting toilets, many people immediately reach for cleaners that contain harsh chemicals. Unfortunately, these chemicals may erode the pipes connected to your toilet with repeated and extended use. For a gentler approach that is just as effective, you may want to consider switching to hydrogen peroxide. Simply let it set for roughly 30 minutes and your toilet is good to go. Read more from this blog : http://bit.ly/2ks05ji

Edmonton Plumbing Experts Ensure Optimum Heating System Performance

At this time of year, colder temperatures mean that homeowners and businesses alike depend on reliable heating. For domestic properties or workplaces with central heating systems, regular maintenance including an annual service helps to prepare for the coming winter cold.

Problems in your central heating system

If your property is fitted with a central heating boiler and pipework to the radiators, you will almost certainly be well aware of the importance of regular maintenance to keep the system in working order. Nonetheless, despite annual services, central heating systems can still accumulate debris or unseen sludge over time. Some of the common symptoms include a noisy boiler, cool or cold radiators, and increased energy bills due to the system becoming less efficient. Read more on this article: http://bit.ly/2jOogTX

2 Tips to Remember When Searching for a Plumber

There are various factors you need to consider when searching for a professional if you need your HVAC system repaired, including the price of the service offered and the customer service you will receive. Here are some tips if you are searching for the best HVAC plumbers.

Thermostats and Smartphone Apps Can Save Energy

It’s little wonder in areas such as Edmonton, Alberta that highly qualified plumbers are in such high demand. Temperatures in the height of summer struggle up to 15/18 C on a good day, and plummet to minus double figures in the winter. Ensuring your heating system is not only working, but working efficiently takes up much of your plumber’s daily activity.

Bring Your Plumbing Up-to-Date with Best Practices

A famous quote from L.P Hartley's book, 'The Go-Between,' states, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." This could be a true reflection of the plumbing installed in your home, especially if you've an older house with a plumbing system installed before today’s best plumbing practices became the norm. Take, for example, the pipework running under your floorboards; that could be a significant bad practice, unbeknownst to you, weakening the structure of your house.

With central heating systems in the 1970s, plumbers often put pipes under the floorboards and used a technique called 'notching' (i.e. cutting a groove in the joists) to allow pipes to run across them. If done with care, the joists shouldn't have been weakened but this often wasn't the case, leading to weaker joists.

Standards in the Canadian Plumbing Industry

We've all seen the rogue trader programmes on television, where unqualified and unprofessional so-called plumbers or other type of tradesman, go into homes and businesses and do botched jobs. Unwitting home and business owners, who give these people the plumbing or heating jobs in the first place, take their word for their competence, without checking their credentials. However, by accepting qualifications that may or may not exist, home and business owners put their homes at risk.