Setting the temperature for your home water heater can be as easy as turning a dial. But what setting should you use? There are several factors to consider. As is so often the case, there are risk factors to be considered, and in the end you must decide what is best for yourself and...
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Your new home may conceal plumbing systems that are about to fail. No way, you may say, as yours is a new high-quality home in an up-scale area. Well and good, but that does not mean that you are immune from plumbing problems. Here are some points to consider:
One – New homes are inspected,...
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A list of important pipe materials in plumbing history must include clay, cast-iron, and copper. That is not exactly the order of their historical usage, as the earliest copper pipes in Egypt predate by far the earliest know application of cast iron pipes in Germany. Other materials were also common. The early Roman plumbers...
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