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Winter is almost here, but before it arrives in all its cold glory there’s a few things plumbing related you should do.      Remove your garden hoses from outside faucets and store inside. Leaving hoses hooked up doesn’t allow water to drain out, which may freeze and burst the faucet in the wall. Then the…

   It’s the time of year when we use our outside faucets for the first time after the long winter. Unfortunately sometimes this results in the situation above.  The answer?… your faucet froze over the winter. The cause?…usually i would say you forgot to remove your hose before it got cold, however it could also…

This is a question that I get several times a year.  There is usually a simple answer.  The majority of time there is a floor drain somewhere in your house that is dried up due to lack of use.  This means that the ptrap no longer contains water.  You may ask, what is a ptrap?…

What is that small tank above my water heater?  I hear that question a lot.  The answer is it’s a thermal expansion tank.  But what is that?  Simply put, when your water heater is on, as it heats the water, it expands (i.e. thermal expansion).  The tank gives that added pressure a place to go…

Welcome to our new web site!  I’d like to thank Igniting Business for all their hard work and patience.  They do fantastic work and I highly recommend them.  Ben, the owner of Igniting Business, created my first web site years ago and it has served me well as I know this new one will also.  I think…