F.A.Q.

1. Why is my kitchen sink drank clogging up constantly?

Your kitchen sink is the most used drain in your house. Every time you rinse your dishes and wash food fragments down the drain, they can collect and get stuck in fatty soap grease. When you wash dishes and use soap, the soap contains fats that turn into grease. This grease is heavier than water and gets stuck in the drain. The food gets stuck in this grease and causes the clog. There are other reasons, but this is the most common.

2. Why did my bottom heating element in my water heater go bad?

Most people don’t know that they should be completely draining their water heaters once a year. This process helps to flush out mineral sediment that eats away at the metal of the water heater. This same sediment gets stuck on the bottom heating element and causes it to go bad.

3. How on earth did that pipe get a hole in it under the slab floor?

You would naturally think that pipes in a concrete slab floor don’t move around, but they actually do. When water is going through them, they vibrate. This vibration slowly beats against the pipe and that causes thinning of the pipe and eventually this will cause a pin whole in the pipe.

4. I’ve turned the main water line to my house, but how do I get it back on?

Many houses these days have gate valves. There is a rod in the valve that when you crank it, the rod will snap due to sediment build up and corrosion. The only option if this happens is to replace the value itself with a full port ball valve.