A garbage disposal is one of those things you never think about until it stops working, usually with a sink full of water and a dinner party in an hour. The good news is that most disposals fail for reasons that are easy to avoid. Treat it right and it’ll run for years. Treat it […]
Read MoreStorm season plumbing in Nashville comes down to one thing: heavy rain goes looking for the path of least resistance, and sometimes that path runs right through your house. A lot of the water problems we see after a big storm aren’t dramatic. They’re slow, quiet, and completely preventable if you know where to look […]
Read MoreNashville is full of great older homes. East Nashville bungalows, ranches in Donelson and Madison, foursquares in Germantown. If yours was built before the 1970s and the plumbing has never been fully updated, there’s a decent chance you’ve got galvanized steel pipe behind the walls. And galvanized pipe has a shelf life. What galvanized pipe […]
Read MoreGo look at your showerhead. We’ll wait. If you’re like most homeowners around Nashville, there’s a crusty white ring around the nozzles, maybe a few of them spraying sideways. That crust is dissolved limestone, and it’s not just on your showerhead. It’s inside your pipes, coating the bottom of your water heater, and slowly working […]
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