We all know how water is supposed to taste. It’s supposed to taste like almost nothing, with maybe some hint of mineral or chlorinated taste. It’s supposed to taste clean. As to how it’s supposed to look? Well, it’s supposed to look clear. And as many Winnipeggers...
There are lots of reasons to want to filter your water, but they usually come down to one central theme - you want to protect your health. That might be by reducing lead content, reducing VOCs, or reducing sediment. Heck, it might just be that you...
You’re walking through the basement of a building - maybe it’s your house, maybe it’s a small business. You notice that there’s a tank down there - a powered tank that seems to be heating water. Is it a boiler? Is it a water heater? Is...
Replacing the plumbing in your entire house is a costly proposition - there’s no two ways about it. Understanding whether or not you need to replace your plumbing means knowing a bit about why pipes get damaged in the first place, the lifespans of different...
A simple question with a not-so simple answer: In Winnipeg, the answer can seem kind of obvious - you don’t drain your pipes. You need water, after all, and shutting off your water main and draining your pipes will make water inaccessible. The answer actually isn’t that...
Toilets are marvels of ingenuity, though the fixture is so common and widely used you wouldn’t realize it unless you thought about it. To understand the genius behind a toilet, you first need to understand toilet tanks. We’re going to take a look at those...
As you can probably guess, corrosion is really bad for your boiler. Boilers are made almost entirely of metal, as are the pipes that lead out of them. There are a lot of different things that can cause corrosion - inevitably, over time, most metals...
Like most other complex appliances, water heaters benefit from regular maintenance. One of the more common issues with water heaters is an accumulation of sediment in the tank. There’s sediment dissolved in almost all water - the measurement for how much sediment is dissolved in...
Sewer replacement is not a simple process. The biggest problem? Sewers are underground, so getting to them in order to do the replacing is tricky. What’s more, your plumbing team will have to evaluate what parts of the sewer are broken, what can be repaired...
There are two very important pipes running fluids into your home: your water line, and your gas service line. There are a wide array of reasons why you might need to shut either of lines off to stop the flow of gas or water -...