Calgary Plumbing Tips And Articles

Our Monthly Newsletter is chock full of useful information to use around your house and for your family. Also, each month we will email you one Handy Hint to use around the home. You will be amazed with the information we can provide you for your next home remodeling project. You can also read a lot of our own articles below.

 

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Past Plumbing Articles and News

A New Furnace Can Reduce Heating Costs!: Heating bills across the country are the highest they have ever been, with out any relief in sight. Even if your older furnace runs, from an economic standpoint it would be wise to replace it. With the proper furnace selection, your central air-conditioning bills can be lower too. Read More

Understanding the Efficiency Rating of Furnaces and Boilers: A central furnace or boiler's efficiency is measured by annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE). AFUE is a measure of how efficient the appliance is in using electricity or fossil fuels (oil or gas) over the course of a typical year. Read More

Steps to Carbon Monoxide Production: The most common carbon monoxide (CO) problems involve a lack of oxygen - either because there is simply not enough, or because the flames cool off before the carbon can join with it. CO is produced whenever a fuel is burned without enough oxygen on hand. Carbon atoms in the fuel that normally join up with two oxygen atoms to form carbon dioxide, which is harmless to human health, end up with only one oxygen atom and instead form CO. Read More

Drip Drip Drip-That Darn Leaky Faucet!: We’ve all been there, trying to fall asleep and the only thing we can focus on is that dreaded sound: drip, drip ,drip. So you get up and you think I just have to turn the handle tighter to make the drip stop, yea if it were only that easy! Read More

Quick, Helpful Plumbing Tips: If you have ever gone camping for a weekend, you know it doesn't take long to miss running water, flushing toilets, clean clothes, and hot showers. These modern conveniences are the benefits of plumbing systems. Your house has several separate plumbing systems. Sinks, toilets, washers, bathtubs, and related fixtures. Read More

Preventing Water Damage in the Bathroom: The frequent use of water in the bathroom makes it extremely vulnerable for moist accumulation and potential water damage. By inspecting it regularly, you can reduce water related damages. Read More

Don’t ‘Fall’ Behind on Plumbing Maintenance: Cool autumn weekends are ideal for catching up on home maintenance projects that were better avoided during the dog days of summer. One item that should be on every homeowner’s “to do” list is protecting your home’s plumbing system from cold temperatures, which can cause pipes to freeze and burst Read More

Questions To Ask When Buying A Furnace - When shopping for a major item like a new furnace it's very important to use a Calgary Heating technician who is familiar with the product and able to perform warranty work should the need ever arise.  Read more

Tips To Winterize Your Home: For those of us who are not  lucky enough to live in areas that are warm year round, it is  time to start to think about winterizing your home. Winterizing not only helps prevent small repairs once the season breaks into spring, but can also help save in heating costs. With energy prices rapidly rising, we could all benefit from saving a few pennies this winter. Read More.

Cold Weather Tips About Your Furnace: A furnace tune up cleans your system making it operate more efficiently saving you money on your fuel costs. Plus a tune up is a safety check which will detect any defective or damaged parts. Read More

Water Heater Pilot Lights - It may be important to know a little bit more about how pilot lights work. The burner control unit in a furnace, boiler, or water heater usually has a gas cock with off, on, and pilot settings. If the pilot goes out, remove the access panel, turn the gas cock off, and air out the burner chamber. Read more

How To Keep Pipes From Freezing in the Winter - Severe winter weather can cause water pipes to freeze and break all over Calgary. Broken water pipes can cause damage to Calgary homes and businesses. Here are some protective measures to help guard against frozen and broken pipes. Read more

The Ten Most Common Household Repairs - "Old reliable" churns away in your basement or utility room day after day, month after month, year after year like a farm mule in days of yore. Except this one doesn't eat as much - nor do you have those ugly, malodorous piles laying all around the place! Read more

Bugs In The Drain Line? If Not Get Some - One of the best things to happen in the plumbing field in recent times has been the development of biological drain cleaners as an alternative to dangerous and ecologically harmful chemicals. These biological products work via bacteria that consume organic waste. Read more

Heating, Air Conditioning And Plumbing Tips Important tips around the house in regards to heating and air conditioning and plumbing . Read more

First Aid For Your Home All of us in the home service business know that there's no such thing as a non-emergency call. To a homeowner with no heat in winter, no air conditioning in summer, a stopped-up toilet, broken pipes, no hot water or an unwanted wading pool in the basement, it is always an EMERGENCY!!! Especially when the breakdown occurs at exactly the wrong time. As it always does. Read more

Tips To Childproof Your Home One of the greatest joys of parenthood is watching your child slowly acquire more and more motor skills as s/he grows from the infant to the toddler stage and beyond. Read more

What Do I Do About Frozen Pipes?: A furnace tune up cleans your system making it operate more efficiently saving you money on your fuel costs. Plus a tune up is a safety check which will detect any defective or damaged parts. Read More