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Plumbing Tips and Resources for Houston
Plain explanations of the plumbing problems Houston homeowners actually run into: what the symptom usually means, what you can check yourself, and when it is time to get a plumber out.
Plumbing Tips
Polybutylene Pipe: Why It Matters in Older Homes
Polybutylene is the one plumbing material that reliably changes the tone of a home inspection. It also generates a lot of alarmist…
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How to Tell What Your Pipes Are Made Of
Pipe material determines more than most homeowners expect. It affects which repairs are possible, whether a fix is a patch or the…
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Backflow Preventers and Your Irrigation System
Most people never think about the direction water travels. It comes in, it goes out, and the arrangement seems too obvious to…
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Soggy Yard With No Rain: What It Can Mean
A patch of yard that stays wet when it hasn’t rained is one of those problems that could be trivial or expensive,…
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Outdoor Faucet Dripping or Won’t Shut Off
An outdoor faucet is easy to ignore. It drips onto soil instead of into a sink, so nobody hears it, and the…
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Why Does My Water Smell Like Chlorine?
A chlorine smell from the tap is one of the few plumbing complaints where the most likely explanation involves a system working…
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Do You Actually Need a Water Softener?
Softeners get sold on a bundle of promises: better skin, cleaner dishes, lower bills, longer appliance life. That makes it hard to…
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Hard Water in Houston: What It Does to Your Plumbing
Hard water doesn’t break anything outright. It shortens things: the working life of cartridges, aerators, flappers, heating elements and appliance valves. Meanwhile…
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Who Owns the Water Line From the Street to Your House?
This question almost always arrives attached to a problem: a wet patch in the yard, a bill that jumped, or a plumber…
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Signs Your Water Pressure Is Too High
Most people call about water pressure when there isn’t enough of it. Too much pressure generates far fewer calls, which is unfortunate,…
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