Guides
Repairs guides
10 guides on repairs. If you would rather just have it fixed, the phone is answered day or night.
- A warm patch on the floor and a meter that keeps tickingHow a slab leak is confirmed with a meter test, located without breaking concrete on a guess, and repaired by spot repair, reroute or repipe.Read
- Finding out why the water slowed downLow pressure at one faucet and low pressure through the whole house have different causes. Measure first, then work through the six that matter.Read
- How to fix a dripping faucet, and when to stopA drip from the spout is usually a worn cartridge you can change yourself. Here is how to tell that from the leaks that need a plumber.Read
- Stopping a toilet that will not stop refillingA toilet that keeps running is either losing water into the bowl or overfilling past the overflow tube. Find out which in two minutes, then fix it.Read
- The gauge reading that decides itHow to read static pressure on a hose bib gauge, what high, low and climbing numbers mean, and why a failed regulator is swapped rather than rebuilt.Read
- The handle turns but the water keeps runningWhy an old gate valve seizes, when tightening the packing nut is enough, and when the main shut-off or an angle stop has to be replaced outright.Read
- The things that decide what a repair takesAccess, pipe material, how much has to be opened up and whether a permit applies are what set a plumbing repair. Here is how each one moves it.Read
- Three leaks on one outside tap, and how to tell them apartA dripping spout, a wet handle and a spraying vacuum breaker are three separate faults on a hose bib. How to identify yours and when the tap gets replaced.Read
- Water in the cabinet and where it is coming fromA five-minute test that separates a supply leak from a drain leak under the sink, plus the four failures behind almost every wet cabinet.Read
- What the sound your disposal makes is telling youA humming disposal is jammed, a silent one has lost power, and a leaking one depends on where the water comes from. Work through it in that order.Read
Water running right now?
Shut the meter, then call.
The valve at the meter box in the parkway stops everything. Turn it, then ring us and we will talk you through the rest while the van is moving.