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,…
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…
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…
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…
The basics of commercial plumbing and residential plumbing aren’t actually that different – fluid dynamics don’t really care about your building’s occupancy. The difference between the two, then, is chiefly…
It’s right there in the title – you can eliminate hard water with a water softener! Great news, right? Well, it is if you know what hard water is, or…
Water heaters come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Even traditional tank water heaters can have a variety of different fuel sources, capacities, and energy-efficient parts. Few water…
Though it might not be obvious at first, sewers and manholes, like anything else, need to be maintained and cleaned in order to function properly. Think about it: the grime,…