Your plumbing system provides clean water and efficient waste removal — until something goes wrong. The problems seem to come out of nowhere. A tiny slab leak can burst into a flood. A collapsed sewer line can back up every drain and toilet in the house and make it...
A long shower is one of the best ways to end a hard day at work or to cool down after a strenuous workout. A hot shower on a winter night or a cold shower in the blistering summer heat can be reviving. But if your water pressure gives you no more than a trickle, you...
You turn on the shower and wait. And wait. And wait. And when you step into the stream, frigid water hits you like a glacial melt. What gives? In a large home, hot water may travel through 50 feet or more of piping from the water heater to the shower, the kitchen...
The water heater accounts for 20–25% of the total energy use in an average Orange County home. This percentage may be even higher in an age of spiking energy prices. We may never return to the good old days of (relatively) inexpensive energy, so the best way to lower...
