[Please note that we do not install or maintain solar systems] Thirty years ago there was a movement to establish solar water heating as a primary source of low cost hot water heating. That effort received mixed reviews and in due time, when...
When a representative from one of the major tank-less water heater companies came down from Orange County to show me how to get rich selling their products, I was admittedly skeptical. I liked the general concept, but I already knew how much they...
How to make your home safe from lead in your tap water Our water supply in the United States has been tainted with lead almost since its inception and lead is a poison. Lead poisoning is serious. The toxicity of lead is not in question; the...
A repair plumber’s truck has bins, cubby holes, and a huge miscellany of parts needed for a wide variety of common fixtures and faucets. Plumbers face a wide variety of situations and their trucks are crammed full of parts but even a...
Looking through past editions of your local yellow pages you find the same plumbing companies listed year after year with few additions and subtractions. A few companies start and a few companies disappear every year. Why are so few new companies...
Over the years the traditional time and material, plus travel, time method of pricing plumbing service has been gradually replaced by the flat rate system. As plumbing systems and practices have become more modern and universal and traffic has...
Many years ago an old retired plumbing contractor advised me that as a plumbing contractor there are only three things you can give your customers. Furthermore, he said, among those three things, you can only give them two. The three things he...