Easy Home Plumbing Tips

Toilet clogged, won't flush, constantly running, or you've got noisy banging pipes? Here are some easy home plumbing tips you should try before bringing in the pros. Most often they will usually work and if it doesn't at least you'll know a lot more about your plumbing than you did before.

Tags: bathroom, kitchen, pipes, plumbing, tips, toilet

Charles & Hudson | July 1, 2008 | Comments () |

Water damage

I own a restoration company (http://www.waterdamageout.com) and recently got a call for water damage that resulted from a blocked sewage line. The sewage backed up into the house and came out the toilet and bathtub – what a mess. A plumber went out and the source of the blockage was tree roots in the sewage line. Guess what? Tree roots are not covered by your home insurance. Apparently it falls into the "maintenance" side of things and you are expected to maintain your sewage lines and keep them free of tree roots by pouring a chemical down the toilet once a month to prevent root growth. How is a homeowner meant to know that? Go figure...

Basty

Spoilage of water due to leaky faucet or pipe should be fixed right away. This is to avoid hassles and accident that might occur. It is also better to call a water plumber to do this for you quickly.

Ruan

To harm no one due to leaking faucet is to fix it right away. This will help not to spill the water all over the floor and might lead someone to accident. Also, having a leaking faucet will increase your water bill consumption.

Georgetown Plumbing

Thanks for the link. I didn't know that Canpages had a blog. The article was well illustrated, with a lot of useful tips. I think I can do the job by myself but.... if I spent too much time on this, I'll pick up the phone :)

Moen Online

These are some great tips. For readers who have trouble installing faucets, especially Moen faucets, we have some installation pointers here:

http://www.moen.com/consumersupport/installatio...

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