Category: Plumbing DIY Advice

Protect Your Plumbing System When Aerating and Re-seeding Your Lawn

If you haven’t aerated and re-seeded your lawn yet, you’ll want to get going on that soon! Here in Charlotte, homeowners are practically down on their knees begging the fescue to grow in the obstinate clay soil. The best way to coax the grass into growing is to lay down lime (to neutralize acidic soil),

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Spring Cleaning: Inside Plumbing Tricks and Tips for Homeowners

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Spring Cleaning: Inside Plumbing Tricks Pay no attention to the snowflakes you may have spotted this week. Spring is thisclose. We promise! In our last spring cleaning post, we focused on the outdoors. Now that you have that taken care of, it’s time to head inside, show spring around, and let it get comfortable for

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Spring Cleaning: Outside Plumbing Tips

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We’re getting there! Inching along to the vernal equinox, also known as SPRING. Time to throw open the windows, let the outside in (and vice versa), and wake your home up from its winter slumber. Read on for our tips on how to welcome the outside of your house to spring, with a focus on

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Plumbing Tools and Basics Every Homeowner Needs Before Tackling a Plumbing Emergency

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New homeowner? Still not totally comfortable with home improvement projects? If you’re about to tackle your first plumbing project, you’ll want to make sure you’ve got the plumbing tools necessary. You will also want to arm yourself with some basic plumbing knowledge so you don’t make a mess of things. Get the basics down before

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DIY Plumbing Projects Without the Mess: Tips for Plumbing Like a Pro

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New to plumbing projects? Shhhh… nobody needs to know. Follow these plumbing tips and everyone will think you’re a pro. Never connect galvanic steel directly to copper. Copper to steel can be a problematic connection, resulting in corrosion sooner than later. Be sure to always use a dielectric union when you need to connect copper

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