Portland Plumbing Tips

Cold winter weather can lead to severe and expensive damage to the plumbing of your home. Luckily, there are many precautions you can take to weatherize your home to prevent costly impacts. [...]

Frozen Pipes How do you know if you have frozen pipes? Simple…the first sign would  be seeing frost on the pipes.  Another sign that your pipes may be frozen is having no water or very [...]

Different Types of Pipes Now that winter is here we have to be careful to not leave standing water in our pipes in case the frozen water causes the pipes to burst, but we’ll talk about that [...]

Signs Your Water Heater is “Kaputt” When to throw in the towel on your old water heater and invest in a new one.  Here are a few tips: 1.  If you notice moisture around your water, [...]

Items to Avoid Putting Down the Kitchen Sink Hopefully everyone had a wonderful and safe Halloween!  Now onwards…in preparation for the season of Thanksgiving, with holiday travels, and [...]

Garbage Disposal Won’t Turn On?   What to do, what to do? If you have a garbage disposal that won’t turn on and there is completely no noise coming from the machine.  Then you [...]

Fall Plumbing Tips Can you believe it?  We are on our way to autumn.  As some Portland meteorologists predicts we may be in for some very wet and cold weathers this year.  Here are some plumbing [...]

Basic DIY Plumbing Items Basic DIY Plumbing Items Are you a new homeowner?  A college student ready to leave the home for the first time?  Or just an all-around handy man or woman who likes to be [...]

Garbage Disposal Info The average lifespan of a garbage disposal is around 12 years.  However, a cheaply made unit can go bad after  only 3 years.  If you are experiencing problems with the [...]

  Portland Summer Plumbing Tips Summer is in full blown, and there’s only about a month left before the children go back to school and the sun goes into hibernation.  However, it is [...]