We tend to give our home plumbing system little attention until something goes wrong. Even the smallest plumbing issue can put several of our day-to-day activities on hold, like laundry and doing the dishes. Fortunately, there are several tips you can put into action to…
Do you need to winterize your home? Many disasters caused by winter weather conditions — like those that have occurred from the unprecedented winter storm in Texas — can be prevented by knowing how to winterize a house. Although it’s hard to think about such…
With warm weather approaching and spring on the horizon, it is time to start dewinterizing your home. You’ll want to begin this process by first learning how to dewinterize a hose bib, also called an outdoor faucet or spigot. Why Winterize Your Faucet? Failure to…
It doesn’t happen often, but at one time or another, you might need to shut down your plumbing system. In other words, how do you properly put all of the water-using fixtures, appliances, faucets, and pipes in your home out of operation during a major…
Every winter, about 250,000 families — most of which don’t know how to prevent freezing pipes — wake up to find a kitchen, bath, or basement flooded with water from a pipe burst. And it’s no joke. Other than a fire or a natural disaster, very…
We’re now deep into Winter and homeowners in much of the country are trying to understand winterization versus insulation. Is there a difference? And, if so, what is it? What are the pros and cons for each? And how do we use either one to…