Sump Pumps: One Way to Avoid a Flooded Basement
As a home owner, protecting your house and family through the discomfort, disruptions and difficulties that arise from flooding with the basement is important. There are several things you can do to avoid a flooded basement. One of the best involves sump pumps. PREVENT WATER FROM REACHING THE BASEMENT Prevention is always the best remedy. […]
How to Find the Right Plumbing Contractor to Get You Into Hot Water
In the good old days, Mom had to heat pots and buckets of water over the wood stove just to keep the bath water warm. Then clever inventors came up with the idea for a hot water storage tank. But, if you haven’t heard yet, the standard storage tank hot water heater we are so […]
Water hammer
Water hammer is caused by the sudden stoppage of the flow of water in a pipe or other closed conduit. The most probable causes of water hammer are the sudden closing of self-closing faucets, quick-closing valves, or other methods of quickly shutting off the flow of water. The effect of water hammer is a sudden […]
Pipe leaks Calgary
Leaks may occur in a pipe line within the walls, or in the ground, or elsewhere, in such a manner that water escapes into the ground or into the sewer without detection, or the water may escape into the building with resultant damage. In either case the financial loss may be large. The cost of […]
Calgary Frozen water pipes
The freezing of water in pipes is due to too long an exposure of the water in the pipe to a temperature below 32° F. It is to be noted that both time and temperature are factors in the freezing of pipes, because it takes time to remove sufficient heat from the water and its […]
Water systems
Water-supply systems Dual, or double, water-supply systems are sometimes installed where one of the supplies is either impure, hard, or is otherwise unsatisfactory in quality. Where a supply is too polluted to be fit to drink, it should not be installed in such a situation that it can be used for drinking purposes. The faucets […]